Tea at Trianon: In House

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Thursday, August 4, 2011

In House

Introducing a new homemaking journal. To quote:

This journal is the coming together of two friends who have a heart for being home and making our families the center of our lives.

It's not an online magazine, a how to [though we plan to share our ideas] or an authority on anything but our own lives. It is simply the sharing of pieces of our days and snippets of life in our homes.

It's not the full picture, it can't be, life is just so much more complicated than can be communicated on a computer screen.

I hope we will be encouraging, dare I say even inspiring, though in truth what we really want is to be authentic. Our intention is to journal about the ins and outs of our daily lives at home and share our thoughts and ideas as homemakers, mothers, and wives.

We have no time frame for posting. No schedule. No obligation. Our families come first and that is as it should be.

We're trusting that God has led us here and that He will make this what He wants it to be.