Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Just Because

Just because I had 6 children in 7 1/2 years doesn't mean that I don't understand birth control and that they were accidents.  No, I don't use birth control.  I use NFP and I love the way that it works WITH my body.  But I wanted children close together and I was open to whatever came my way.

Just because I choose to make my children my life and be a stay at home mom does not mean that I am poor and uneducated.  I am in fact neither of those things.  I have an education.  We are completely and totally comfortable with our financial circumstances.  If we were not, I would reevaluate what we needed to do.  I will have plenty of time to work outside the home when they are not little.  For now, I am working on them.

Just because I was married young and had my children young does not mean that we were married because I was pregnant.  #1  was born 14 months after we were married.  Thank you very much.

Just because I am Catholic doesn't mean that I HAD to have a large family.  We wanted one.  Simple as that.  There are plenty of Catholic families that follow church teachings and don't have a ton of children.    That just wasn't what we wanted.

Just because I believe in God doesn't mean that I didn't research my faith to get a better understanding and then come into by my own choice.  I did.  I love the Catholic faith and all of it's rich traditions. There was a time in my life where I was very angry at God and it would have been much easier to just abandon everything I believed in.  But I wanted it, worked for it, and have been able to come to my faith with a much richer understanding of suffering.

Just because I make grammar mistakes often in my blog doesn't mean I don't know how to write. It just means that I am trying to go quickly before a child wakes up or that the distractions are many and I am not able to tune them out.

Just because I never saw this coming doesn't mean that I am not trying my best to embrace everything that is coming at me.

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