Pionneer Women

Pioneer Women


Pioneer Woman Getting Water from a Well Near Her Log Cabin, Carolina

Taulua Bottoms Legacy: The Story of Talula Gilbert Bottoms and Her Quilts (Needlework and Quilting) Nancilu Burdick

Last year when my mother came to visit for the holidays she brought this book.

I had such a joy reading this book with my daughter, mother and my Aunt.

We always get together in the kitchen taking turns reading outloud to each other.

I am always interested in learning how women survived.

If you have not been inspired lately and are feeling overwhelmed.

Read this womens story and you will be changed forever.

Did you have a mother who trained you in homemaking skills?

Try to imagine you are living in the 1800's and you get married

and know nothing. Luckily, she married a man that lived with

his mother. This woman became her mother, what wonderful

experience the Lord gave her. She went on to learn not only

the joys of homemaking but learning the art of quilting.

She made over 125 quilts in her life time. Imagine how

she must of had to get her work done early enough to also

be able to find time to quilt.

Let me ask you why are we not making our own quilts?

How do we spend our time?

A pioneer woman in the spring would be getting a spring planting in. This would give her family nourishing food after the long winter. The gloomy months of winter would be a time of rest. Planning her garden would take a good deal of time. Getting the garden ready as soon as the soil is workable. Sometimes this can be done as early as mid to late Febraury. Seeds can go into the ground as early as the beginning of March in New Jersey.

Everything has a season!

We can learn from this woman, her hands were not idle. Up early, getting breakfast

ready for her family. Planning the rest of her day.

Planning meals took a good amount of time.

Just imagine how hard it was for the Pioneer woman.

Can I do what she did in her time?

That depends on my question.

How do we spend our time?

She had no choice of food. Her carefull attention of what was in her

pantry was so very important. She planned her meals by what

she had, sometimes it was not much.

What's in your pantry?

Can you fix all the food that's in your pantry for all the food your

family will need?

Can you grow the food you will eat?

Today I will ask God to give me the strength to provide food for

my family.

Show me how I have the time to grow a garden full of vegetables.

I pray for the wisdom to carry out this task of raising nourishing food.