I was never a tomboy but I was never a Barbie girl either. I mean, it's not that I didn't like dolls, including Barbies, I did a lot and I had so many (dolls, I mean) but I was never that kind of too girlish girl, but I was always feminine, that I was, because my exemples were my grandmother and mother. My mother was a girl quite modern but without overdoing it, she liked the last trends and all but she was always so nice dressed and elegant. I remember seeing films by my father's super8 camera. There we can see how my mother was like a model, so beautiful and elegant.
My grandmother was quite young for a gradmother but she was sober and elegant, always prefering navy blue. What a lady she was.
She had a very firm influence in me, in everything, and some days ago my eldest daughter was telling me how I am so much like my grandmother in so many ways, even the hair, dark and slightely waved.
The same way I use so much of her vocabulary and I have the same tastes, as to sew in the sewing machine, to make crochet and embroidery (my mother was wonderful in embroidery too), and how I like so much the home.
It's for me a great comfort to be so much like my grandmother but, even reaching this age I am, I still long to be like my mother and her and I struggle to be not as good as she was, which looks unattainable for me, but closer to what she was.
And that is to be a lady: feminine and sober. To be delicate, feminine, inclined to all things home, to dress and talk with sobriety, using delicate words, (never, ever being corse in the language) and in the way we walk, seat and get up, the way we laugh, and liking all things feminine and knowing how to do works with our hands like crochet and so, knowing to work in the kitchen and to keep our homes clean and tidy. Being groomed, us and our home.
What a blessing it is to be a woman and being it, to be ladylike.
Thanks be to God for everything I received from my mother and grandmother.
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