On Saturday nights at our house Mama heated water on the stove. We didn’t have inside plumbing (no hot water or rest room). She carried an aluminum tub in the kitchen where it was warm and hung a blanket over the door into the living room for privacy. We bathed so we would be clean for Sunday. She would scurry around till midnight sometimes, preparing our Sunday clothes.
Earlier in the day she had killed a few chickens and prepared them for frying after church. She also made a few pies. On the way to church she did her final “clean-face-scan" in the crowded car. Some of us got a spit bath.
Fathers are to be the head of the home, but mothers are often the backbone, the one that keeps the family together and functional. There’s a special bond between a mother and her children.
Proverbs 31:10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
