I’m sure by now the title of this post isn’t news to anyone in the world. I took my time with memorializing my thoughts partly because I wasn’t available before, and partly because I didn’t know how relevant they’d be to the conversation at large. But since this blog is by a Catholic, I might…
I told you I wouldn’t get these going regularly at first. I’m used to blogging without a schedule so I’m still getting used to “organizing” my thoughts well enough to have something worked out at around the same time each month. The holidays With December (although sometimes in late November) comes Advent, and Advent/Christmastime/the Christmas…
Or reasons why I, as a Millennial Hispanic immigrant, stay-at-home mom, and homeschooler, am now “weird” and choose not to identify with most. As time’s gone on, and especially since overcoming a significant back injury, becoming a mom, losing a baby, and then having another baby, I’ve realized that I’m much more content with fewer…
There’s a rule that dual-income parents tell themselves to justify not being with their kids as much throughout the day: “Parenting is about quality, not quantity.” We’ll get to why it’s B.S. in a moment but first, I’d like to ask WHY it even exists: What makes it OK to justify their lack of presence?…