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Over the years I’ve read many books from days long past which instructed young girls on how to become ladies because I, like nearly all women in our society, wasn’t taught how to be a real woman so in the early days I came up with this 10 point list. 

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Now, I’m in no way claiming to be the perfect lady myself, becoming a better lady is something I’m constantly working on. None of us will always live up to all the points of lady like behavior all the time but we set the bar high to give us something to strive for and we allow grace to make up for the rest.

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1. A lady does not gossip about others. She has a huge heart and responds to her friends, family and community dearly..

2. A lady takes a few moments in the morning to make herself bright, clean and fresh. She does not shuffle about the house in raggedy, old clothes all day nor does she neglect her appearance. A lady showers regularly, combs her hair, and wears soft, feminine clothing such as skirts and blouses.

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3. A lady does not stomp or lumber about the house. She steps lightly and gracefully when she walks. She stands up straight, keeps her chin up, and her shoulders back. She is graceful and confident.

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4. A lady remembers to smile and smile often; when doing this dishes, when driving the car, at home and on the job.

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5. A lady does not curse or use vulgar sounding language. She speaks as properly as she is able and does not resort to slang or urban accents. She does not shout (whenever possible).

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6. A lady does not proclaim herself to be a “b*tch” in a mistaken attempt to gain “empowerment.”

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7. A lady does not argue or forcefully assert her opinions in an uncomfortable way when with her friends and family. Opinions may be shared, of course, as a matter of polite conversation but always with a smile.

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8. A lady eats slowly, chews her food completely and does not speak while her mouth is full.

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9. A lady educates herself either formally or informally. She learns about all womanly arts including healthy living, conception, childbearing, nutritious food, sewing, mending, thrifty spending, gentle parenting, spirituality, etc. Many of these things can be researched online or at your local library.

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10. A lady dresses as beautifully as she can, yet modestly. She knows her attractive qualities are in her grace not her bare skin. This does not mean expensive clothes! You can buy nice, beautiful things at the thrift shop. She regards fashion and trends but does not overdo it. A good tip on beauty and fashion is to find a respectable public figure whose facial features resemble yours and one whose body type is similar to yours. They have experts telling them how to dress and wear their make up, take some cues from them.

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Please share with us your tips for being ladylike!

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The ordinary becomes extraordinary when you’re a little girl with your dad. Any moment can be a memory that stays in your heart and in the hearts of others, forever. 

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Today my guest contributor, American Trucker,  shared…

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“Yesterday I was driving through Great Falls, Montana. A man and his daughter drove by on a motorcycle. The little girl was wearing a pink Barbie helmet. She looked up at me -face freckled, tooth missing – and smiled a smile of shear joy. That smile made my day.

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Was she happy because she was riding a motorcycle? Probably. Was she happy because she was riding a motorcycle with her dad? I don’t think there could be any doubt.”

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The pattern of the universe is based on our Hevenly Father creating a world for us and then we, in turn, take shear delight in being in our Father’s creation, ever eager to be worthy to rejoin His presence when our moment here his done. 

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Are we happy because we are on this wild ride called life? Probably. Are we happy because it’s a life given to us by our Eternal Father? I don’t think there could be any doubt.

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Enjoy your Sabbath everyone! 

This is a submission from one of my Twitter followers. 

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I am an over the road truck driver. I see things and have a lot of time to think about them. What I’ve been noticing lately is all the old wooden barns falling down.  

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I can remember seeing these same barns as a kid when mom and dad too us on road trips when I was a kid. Most of them were still in use one way or another if only to house tractors. They were weathered and old even when I was a kid nearly 50 years ago. My guess is these barns are in the neighborhood of 100 years old.  

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I can imagine when they were built using hand saws and hammers. The men who built them must have been very proud of their work. I would be proud to build a wooden building by hand that could stand for a century. 

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But now just 100 yeas later, a blink in human history, all their hard work is collapsing in the middle of corn fields. What is left of these men who sweated and labored to build these buildings that they must have taken such pride in?   

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Their children, grand children and great grandchildren… are left. The barns they built and took such pride in are falling down, but their descendants are the living monument to their lives.

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Since it’s #ThrowBackThursday I thought I would reblog a blog I wrote here two years ago about the real origins of yoga asanas (poses) and include some ever so cheesy photos from when I taught pre and postnatal yoga about 10 years ago.

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So first the pictures…

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Hey! No fair! I can hear you laughing from here! 😂 Oh, come on, I think it’s part of the liberal hand book, we all have to teach yoga at some point or we can’t renew our liberal card. 😂

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In all seriousness I was fortunate enough to have an amazing training in yoga with Jane Austin, if you’re in San Francisco and want to do some yoga, look no further than her, the last time I checked she was still teaching, she’s a lovely woman.

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What I was never taught when I studied yoga however was where yoga asanas (or postures) actually come from and the answer may be disturbing for some viewers (mostly anti whites). They come from….

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….drumroll please….

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…Europe! That’s right good ole Europe! Now if you’re as surprised as I was let me unload some facts on ya….

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Yoga? Ya, Turns Out That European Too (blog from November 2015)

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With all the modern talk of cultural appropriation the practice of yoga, which has gained rapid mainstream popularity over the past generation, tends to get hit from all sides.

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Some Christians claim that Yoga is too Hindu, that the health poses and stretching forms cannot be removed from their Hindu roots and thus the practice is unChristian at best and sinful at worst. Alternatives such as Praise Moves and Christian Yoga have sprung up in response to this idea.

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On the other hand some claim that Yoga is an ancient and traditional practice of Indian origin and that white Westerners have committed the ultimate sin of cultural appropriation by taking Yoga, modernizing it, and setting up a white owned Yoga business on every hipster street corner in the Western world.

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It turns out that both outlooks may be very wrong. Yoga is neither anciently Hindu, and thus inextricably linked with a non-christian theology, nor has it been culturally appropriated from Indian culture, in fact, evidence suggests the reverse may have happened. 

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In 2010 author and researcher, Mark Singleton wrote the book The Yoga Body (published by Oxford University Press) After much research he discovered that a few a yoga poses can be found in Hindu sacred texts but they are nothing like the Yoga we know today which is a physical practice. Nothing resembling a physical practice can be found in Hinduism.

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So where then did Yoga, as we know it today, come from? Singleton tells us that in the middle of the 19th century a man named Per Henrik Ling had a system of Swedish gymnatics which quickly spread throughout England and Europe. Ling’s approach was not dissimilar to that of the YMCA’s, that is to say, that it was geared toward the developing of the “whole person,” as opposed to just the body. It became a popular system for exercise because it required no weights or machines and could be practiced anywhere at land or sea. 
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When Swedish gymnastics met Dane Niels Bukh’s rhythmic exercises at the YMCA in India, along with some Hindu pose names, it seems Yoga, as we know it, was born. Singleton is clear in his research that when the YMCA brought its message of social transformation through bodily transformation to India, they found “no ‘system’ or ‘brand’ of physicalalized yoga that could satisfactorily meet India’s need.” So they simply created one from a fusion of a few posture-based practices found in India at the time, along with gymnastics, calisthentics, and body building. 

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But how much influence did the ancient Hindu poses have on what is modern day Yoga? It seems they had very little influence. Many of the postures and practices similar to our modern yoga were very popular in Britain, but we’re derived from the Scandinavian system of gymnastics. In fact, when one reads Niel Bukh’s Primary Gymnastics (1925) they will find that “at least 28 of the exercises in the first edition of Bukh’s manual are strikingly similar (often identical) to yoga postures occurring in Pattabhi Jois’ Ashtanga sequence or in Iyengar’s Light on Yoga.” 

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Does that mean that those early Hindus who claimed to be teaching first, the Indian Royal Court, and then the Western world “Yoga” knew they had culturally appropriated Scandanavian Gymnastics? Most likely not. In that day and age the trail of how information was spread and adapted was not easily traced by the average person and it’s reasonable that Jois, Iyengar and other Yoga pioneers honestly thought Yoga was an ancient cultural practice of their nation. 

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So where does that leave us today now that we know the true origins of Yoga? First, I think we can rest assured that removing the Hindu names and using the English names for poses erases that stigma that may have been preventing Christians from partaking in the practice. Second, I think it leaves us Europeans with a wonderful legacy of Scandanavian Gymnastics to research, explore and revitalize. Lastly, the next time you’re headed off to Yoga class you can tell everyone you’re actually headed off to Danish Gymnastics class and watch everyone furrow their brows. 

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And maybe we can skip the yoga pants too? 

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Now THAT’S better! 👌

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Sources Cited

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Mereorthodoxy
Neils Buhk 
Transitional Exchange and the Genesis of Modern Postual Yoga Asa
Yoga Journal, Roots of Yoga
Most Yoga Asanas Are 120 Years Old (and European)

So many people have been coming to me the past few days with their amazing stories of how they went from Leftism to Traditionalism/Alt Right. Here I share a few anecdotes of my own as to what I believed and what changed my mind. I asked people to comment about their journeys and share them in an effort to help other people put a foot on the path out of a Leftist brainwashing. You can watch the video here. 

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Feel free to comment on the blog post as well! 

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I’m currently dealing with a crazy stalker. She ran across my Twitter a year and a half ago. She’s a liberal, San Francisco boomer who hates all representations of traditional motherhood (I’ll leave you to guess why that is). I ignored her, blocked her, etc. but she’s obsessed. Nearly every evening she gets high as a kite and starts trolling me on multiple accounts on Twitter. 

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The thing she hates most about me is that I left liberalism and now speak out against it. At first she tried to shame me by digging up pictures and blog posts about my past but that didn’t work so recently she connected with a few other people online and helped create a blog to “out” all my liberal past the problem is they don’t stop at the truth they take 10% truth and just make up the rest, going to such extremes as faking YouTube comments, faking screen shots, faking blog posts and splicing my podcasts together to make fake voice recordings of me.

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She’s posted my address online as well as my familiy’s names, she’s begun posting aerial shots of my house online she even photoshopped an image of my 10 year old son to make him look fat. How cruel can you get yo try to shame a kid who’s actually thin as a rail? I’ve documented 8 months now of harassment and abuse. I even had a private investigation done to try and get her to back down. Her MO is to take some true things and mix them with fake things, or to deliberately leave out crucial details to make something I wrote a decade ago seem like a recent or more dramatic event. My next step is legal action. Yes

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The most recent attack on me is the claim that I’m gay and that I recently cheated on my husband with a woman (and then blogged about it for some reason?)

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The story behind the whole thing is simple. My first husband cheated on me and left me when our baby (my oldest son) was 7 months old (in spring 2004). I thought an open marriage next time around would be a solution to avoid what had happened in my first marriage and all the liberal books I read backed this up. My second (and current) husband (I met in fall 2004) comes from a polyamorous commune. His dad had multiple wives who had multiple husbands. I was deep into liberalism and so were some of our friends. About a year and a half into our marriage my husband’s, best friend’s wife and I dated for a few months with both of our husband’s approval.

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We barely did anything physically at all, so don’t go thinking it was some scene from a porno movie, it wasn’t. I thought I would enjoy being with a woman like all the media pushed (this was at the height of the TV show The L Word about lesbianism) but I hated it, I hated every second of it. I was scared to break it off because I didn’t want my husband to lose his best friend but after about 3 months I couldn’t stand it anymore and I broke up with her. I felt like a failure for not making this hip lifestyle work. All our hipster San Fran liberal friends knew about our “open” marriage and hence, we couldn’t ever make friends, they always wanted to sleep with us and we were always making excuses not to, going home early from parties, sometimes literally hiding and pretending we weren’t home. We didn’t want to do it.

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I thought I was doing the “right” thing, don’t all men want an open marriage? That’s what the media told me, but no, my husband told me he hated it too so we vowed to never to do it again. All these blog posts this stalker is getting are over a decade old and they are screen shooting and cropping them to take them out of context and they are purposely obscuring the dates.

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I’ve always been 100% honest about my past as a San Francisco liberal and the mistakes I made. I’ve made my life an open book and I’ve referenced my former liberalism on nearly every interview I’ve ever given. I’ve posted tweet after tweet about being a former liberal, with pictures included of me with blue hair and hippie jewelry, from a decade ago. I’ve always had “former liberal who became trad life” first thing in my Twitter bio. When I shared the opening of my Trad Life book I’m writing it says, “I can offer this knowledge not because I am a success but because I was first a failure.” My first YouTube videos were about how I was a liberal feminist in grad school in San Fran and how I saw the horrors of that lifestyle and left it. I’ve exhaustively referenced my past at every opportunity.

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Progressive Leftist Liberal Marxism is a death cult. If it’s lifestyle doesn’t literally kill you early it kills your genetic line when you choose dogs over babies, sex over marriage and the shackles of regressivism over the freedom of tradition. I was in that cult. I was in “the belly of the beast” as I often say. I put the Kool Aid cup up to my lips but I refused to drink, I threw it down and ran for freedom and now I am haunted by the zombies of the people who didn’t get out in time and now shuffle around, stiff, lifeless and with no hope. They hate me because my life is a testimony of the freedom and redemption they still, ideologically, refuse to accept.

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I was saved and redeemed by Christ in the waters of baptism in 2008 some of my progressive ideology lingered a few years after that but eventually it all gave way to TRUTH. 

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The TradLife message is powerful. How else could a homemaker amass a Twitter following of 30 thousand people? They are scared to death and are trying desperately to silence me.

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I leave them with these words: THEY WONT.

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One way to simplify motherhood when you have a large family is to have matching outfits that are coordinated with each day of the week. Coordinating matching outfits means that..

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– you don’t have to hassle with your kids each morning about what to wear. They know what shirt they are suppose to wear each day. 

-it cuts back on laundry and closet space. 6 shirts, 6 pairs of pants, church clothes, a few t-shirts for rough play. That’s it.

-it makes it easier to keep track of them when you’re out and about

– it saves money because you aren’t over buying clothing

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Tips..

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-this works best for children under 12

-polos are a good choice for looking well put together but still be comfortable 

-find bargains at thrift shops and on Kohl’s sales rack

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So some random blog has sprung  up seemingly dedicated to making stuff up about me. They have an old blog of mine acrchieved and they have been screen shooting and distorting posts I wrote. Some of those posts are taken out of context, others they have just faked altogether, all of them are over a decade old. Someone even went to the effort of splicing together some of my podcasts in order to make “recordings” of me saying things I never said. 

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I love the smell of desperation in the morning! 🤣

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When I begun my activist work I knew that I would have to be 100% honest about my liberal past, and I have been, while trying to strike a balance of family privacy. I haven’t blurted out every mistake I’ve ever made but I’ve used many in anecdotes in my blogs, vlogs, and Twitter posts about why I left the Left. 

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What I never expected was for people to take 10% truth, or even 0% truth, and fake an entire story about me, but that’s what they do to Trump, so I suppose I’m flattered really! Mine is a story of redemption, it always has been but I was never so far gone down the liberal rabbit whole as these blogs and twitter trolls like to lie and say I was. 

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The funny thing is, if I celebrated my mistakes I’d be a Leftist darling. If I wrapped myself in sin and paraded it around for all to see they would applaud me, but I took a different path, I said wait….stop…this isn’t how I want to live, this isn’t what I want to do and I stopped, threw the car in reverse and got the heck out of crazy town a decade ago! Then I had the nerve to warn others about crazy town and now the crazy town citizens are mad at me for it 😂

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Stay mad crazy town! 🤣👌

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What are your reasons for homeschooling? It is an often asked question and a long complicated answer! LOL I thought I would write a blog post and try to address the top, most important, reasons my family chooses to home school and some of the benefits we get from home schooling.
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1. The Bible tells parents that they are responsible for their children’s education.

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“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6 is probably one of the most quoted yet most ignored scriptures. Many parents abdicate their responsibility these days to personally train up their children. Starting with day care and extending through 13 years of public schooling we allow the majority of our children’s day, for the majority of the week, for the vast majority of their precious years to be spent with strangers simply assuming they will be trained up. Well, they will certainly be “trained up” but will it be in the way they should go – that is to say, the right direction?

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“And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them [the words of the Lord] diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. ” Deut. 6:5-9

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We cannot really teach the word of God to our children diligently while we sit in our house, while we are going to and from life pursuits, while we are napping or putting them to bed, and when they rise up if you have them in school eight hours per day. 

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Christ taught in Luke 20:25 that we should “Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which be Cæsar’s, and unto God the things which be God’s.” My children do not belong to Caesar AKA the government, period. They are not the property of the government to do with as they please. They are made in my earthly image and ultimately in the image of God. They are His and it is my responsibility to be sure I have done everything to guide them back to Him. 

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2. (LDS) The Book of Mormon provides an example of home schooling

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What are the opening lines in the Book of Mormon? 

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 “I, Nephi, having been born of goodly parents, therefore I was taught somewhat in all the learning of my father…” 1 Nephi 1:1 It doesn’t say “I, Nephi, having been born of a goodly State system, therefore I was taught somewhat in all the learning that the heads of State deemed necessary, developmentally appropriate and politically correct.” 

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3. (LDS) Modern Prophets and LDS church leaders have strongly counseled us to not participate in government schooling

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And when I say “strongly” I don’t mean a stern talking to I mean Brigham Young called those who support public schooling “poor, miserable, apostates!” We were warned to not support government educational systems by Prophets and leaders such as Joseph Smith Jr, Brigham Young, Herber C Kimball, John Taylor, etc and they by no means beat around the bush. 

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“We don’t want infidels to mold the minds of our children.” John Taylor

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To read a huge sampling please visit this site. 

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4. To create a Christian worldview and combat the religion of secularism

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Make no mistake secularism is a belief system – it is a religion. It is suppose to be a system where religion is treated as neutral but that’s not the reality as it is practiced. Secularism is a belief itself. It is the belief that education somehow can be conveyed without turning to God or His word. Secularism behaves as if we can stick God in one container and education in the other, yet how can we do this when God is the author of everything? How can you teach wisdom on any subject and leave the creator out? It isn’t possible to do! Yet that is exactly what school both public, charter and private attempt to do!

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The scriptures teach us the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. Wisdom simply cannot be gained any other way except looking at it God’s way! Math becomes God’s recipe for creation, science the result of that recipe, language the gift of communication given to us to use not only with each other but to pray to our Father. Reading is important to learn so that we may read the scriptures and be guided by God’s word that He has given us. Writing supports that learning through scripture study and the ability to share the Gospel with others. Everything is related to God otherwise they are just meaningless half facts on a sheet of paper which are worth nothing eternally. 

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5. Sheltering my child from bad behavior/bad examples

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I was a preschool teacher for many years before having my own children. I also taught kindergarten for a time. I saw first hand how bad behavior set by the bad example of other children. This behavior was like a virus that would infect even the sweetest, best behaved children. 

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I would see a dear child dropped at day care for the first time. Mom was going back to work and the child who had been at home until then was now in a world of children from a variety of backgrounds. I don’t blame the bad behaved children. Some of their parents were alcoholics who hit them, some were ignored, some had mental issues – whatever the problem every school class had at least one or two bad kids and those kids infected the ones around them. 

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Part of the problem was that one teacher cannot guide the emotional and behavioral needs of 30 students at a time. Even 10, all the same age, was too many. Without individual care and attention the class dissolves into a child created, child led hierarchy which places the most aggressive at the top and the weakest firmly at the bottom. 

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My children are constantly praised for their good behavior, their kindness, their patience, their hard work ethic. They weren’t born that way (don’t we wish we could be! LOL) No, I instilled those virtues, through God’s grace, and sheltered my children from the wrong examples of badly behaved children while my children’s minds were too young to properly processes the negative examples of children around them. 

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6. Giving my children real socialization

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The 30 children to 1 adult ratio of most schools is not real socialization. No where else in life will you ever be in such a situation where you are placed only with your peers, plus or minus six months of age. 

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In homeschooling my children interact with their family first -multiple age levels with a variety of ways to interact with them. They learn how to interact with their older siblings, their younger siblings as well as their parents. They go out to museums and playgroups where the population is always varied and changing. They learn to interact with all people, young and old, healthy and sick, smart and challenged, etc in real life settings, not a class room. 

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7. To build strong family ties

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On any given day you might see my 7 year old son is reading a book to his sister who is two while my 10 year old works on answering questions about ancient Greece. Later when Papa gets home the older boys will go with him to get the oil changed on the car and the younger ones will stay home with me to help prepare dinner. 

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We are together all day. My children get to experience a deep family connection that children in school simply cannot because they are sectioned away from each other all day. My children aren’t placed in grades or age groups. They cheerfully interact with older and younger siblings they have never been segmented from. Siblings are best friends – someone to play with, serve and love everyday.

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We get to experience milestones together. We are together when the youngest member of the family takes their first steps. We share in the joy of a child learning to read, we see the baby teeth fall out one by one, we help each other on Scout badges and advancements. Nothing is missed, all is shared. 
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8. A superior education

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It’s no secret that homeschooled children do better on all testing. The attention of loving parents is simply far superior than the best teachers in the public and private system and the homeschooled children learn more. Period. Like any parent I want the best education for my children.

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9. Sexual predators

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Your child is more likely to be sexually abused by a teacher than anyone else. Not a priest, not a Scout leader – a public school teacher. This issues has largely been ignored by the media but has recently gained some traction. Keeping my kids at home keeps them safe. 
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10. School Violence

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School violence is no secret. It seems nearly every week we hear of a school shooting, a school stabbing or other violent act. Home is safer for my children. 

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11. Marxism

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My children are not potential consumers to be branded and exploited yet that is exactly what happens in public schools. They don’t need to be told they are evil for being white or that there is anything wrong with their ancestors. I won’t subject them to brainwashing. No thank you. 

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12. Time with my children as they grow (it goes by so quick!)

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My children are only children for a blink of an eye. The days may seem long but the years are too short! I want to be with my children and I want them to love being with me! I don’t want family day to be Saturdays. That gives me 52 days per year with my children? No way! Everyday is a day to relish in my sweet babies because once they are gone I cannot get those moments back. 

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13. Avoiding Common Core, mental conditioning and data mining

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Government is eroding our rights everyday and one of the main battle grounds is public schools. They are exploiting our children as future slave laborers in Bill Gate’s workforce. It’s no surprise that Bill Gates was the biggest supporter of Common Core. My children are not going to be educated to only ever be low level clerical employees for the elite and I will not have the government trolling and stock piling personal data on my children. My children do not need a “permanent record” following them around in this new digital age based on something they said when they were 7. 

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14. Protect their hearts

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Small children can get their hearts and hopes set on things and people who make promises or who show caring to them. A child may feel all the love and affection for a school teacher that should be directed at their patents and siblings only to discover a year later this precious teacher cannot recall the child’s name. The child is simply one child in a revolving door of children in this adult’s life. That can crush their spirit, their heart and their trust in authority figures, leaving a child who misdirected their love away from their family, feeling completely alone and bitter.

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15. Listening to the Holy Ghost and relying on prayer for guidance

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Listening to the guidance of the Holy Ghost is probably the most important thing we can teach our children. Schools teach this out if them (and of course they are largely successful, they spend more time with our children than we do!). 

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Schools teach children to go to “facts” and “experts” alone for true wisdom. They will present science theory as fact and counsel our children to regard only the footnotes for guidance on what is “true.” However, as anyone who’s tried to research a subject online can attest; finding out the “truth” can be tricky when you can find studies supporting different sides and “experts” who cannot agree. 

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Our public schooled children learn to chase down elusive “facts” as a way to seek truth and guidance in their life and this directs them to ignore the Holy Spirit. In home school we can stop, pray, and wait for revelation as we explore various subject matter. We can gain powerful insight when coupling the “facts” with personal revelation and we strengthen our ability to hear and quickly respond to the guidance of the Holy Ghost in our lives. This relationship with the Holy Ghost will be more instrumental in our children’s successful future than anything they could possibly learn in school. 
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So those are my top reasons. Of course these are my insights and my opinions and many are based on my faith. I don’t judge people who choose to, or who must for the time being, use public schools. I don’t judge public school teachers, many of whom are doing their very best in an imperfect system. Of course good children can come out of public schooling. This isn’t meant as a personal attack or judgment. 

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It isn’t always easy and there are benefits and drawbacks to everything but our children are the most important thing we will do with our lives, the only thing that lives on after us, they’re worth it! 

Russian President Vladimir Putin shook hands and exchanged pleasantries with US President Donald Trump prior to the first working session of the G-20 summit.

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Putin has become a sort of hero to the American right due to his passionate Christian beliefs and his willingness to put them into action in thwarting negative influences, such as gay propaganda, and promoting the traditional lifestyles. 

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“First and foremost we should be governed by common sense. But common sense should be based on moral principles first. And it is not possible today to have morality separated from religious values.” -Vladimir Putin 2007

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