I've got it in my head recently that I want a big family, like 7 kids. Anyone from that situation and know how to make it work?
I know a few large families like that in our extended homeschool network. In all of them, one parent (usually, mom) stays home. A common theme I have seen is a change in perspective that the life focus is on raising the family. I don't think the income is all that high in any of those families, but they are just committed to making it work, which often means doing without some things and keeping on a strict budget.
As far as the Catholicism thing, as someone who grew up Catholic myself, I'll just say: If you are into it because of the culture and all, or you take comfort in the ritualistic aspects of it, I get that. But if the goal is to be part of a "form of Christianity," Catholicism is directly incompatible with what it means to be a Christian, so I don't get that. But I'll just leave it at that for purposes of this thread. If you want to further discuss, we can do that by PM or take it to P/R.
I'm going to leave the other thread alone because I don't really find those kind of discussions to be worthwhile, i.e., what counts as "real Christianity". Of course this puts me at odds with traditionalist Catholics too who seemed to like nothing better than calling everything they don't like "heresy". But the first part of this post is true, a lot of people are Catholics because it's what they were born into and they don't necessarily want to leave for somewhere else just because they might not like a few things about Catholicism, so I do think H2 will be a little bit disappointed upon converting especially if he realizes that most Catholics are much more practical than the hardline teachings would suggest.
That could be cause those who are a devout catholic, see Catholicism as their Identity and who they are. They understand, this is who I am, This is where my tree lies, and this is how I should live. They found their answer to the life-long question of "Who Am I?"
I know Who I Am...and Where I'm From....How many people can truly answer that question, with factual information like DNA and Ancestry. It's why these DNA sites exist, because people are wanting to know "Who Am I?"
" wE dOnT DeSeRve DoGsssssssssssssssssss"
Oh man, I hate people who act like this. For two years we fostered puppies and had dog daycare/dog sitting business out of our home, which Covid basically killed. We had probably around 100 different dogs in our home at various times. Many of the dogs were great, but more of them were annoying little shits. Barking at everything, needing constant attention, pooping/peeing/puking on the floor, extreme separation anxiety, etc. Many of the dogs I felt were not worth the money we made off of them. Dog owners are more blind to their dogs annoying behavior than parents are for sure. All parents think their kids can be little shits at times. I've never heard a dog owner say anything but good things about their dogs.
Haha, it's completely opposite on the Rez. We know our dogs are little shits, and get into things. We let our dogs roam free. They're known as Rez Dogs...
So...I am just sitting here completely laughing my ass off at the dog dicsussion.
Don't even get me started on the people that say "Oh, my boy, my baby, my son, my daughter, my kids" when they're talking about their dog(s).
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