I’ve vacillated quite a bit about what to post today. Late last night, tears still stinging my eyes, I was going to turn off the comments and not post anything until after Christmas, or at least until after the weekend, to take a little break from blogging. The level of judgementalism in some of the comments yesterday really got to me. (When I re-read them this morning, I could clearly see that it was only a few – but once I was feeling defensive, hurt wasn’t far behind.) Lying awake after my 4 am pee break and unable to go back to sleep, I thought maybe I’d try to make a joke out of it. An hour ago in the shower, I thought maybe it was best to just ignore it and write about something else entirely.<\/p>\n
Since my muse has deserted me, you get this stream-of-consciousness instead. For those of you who are curious (or, in some cases, disturbingly judgemental) about our choice to send the boys to Catholic school, beyond this post<\/a> here’s the gist of it our reasoning.<\/p>\n I like me. I like who I am, how I am, how I got to be here. I am content with myself in many ways, and by extension, I’m happy with how I got here. I have such fond memories of my childhood that it makes perfect sense to me to raise the boys in more or less the same way I was raised. Beloved and I both went to Catholic school, and I don’t know about his parents, but mine had the same doubts and questions and concerns about Catholicism, and even Christianity, that I do. I’ve posted many, many times about this, and maybe that’s why yesterday’s comments caught me so off guard.<\/p>\n So, back to the rationale. The bottom line? It was good enough for me, good enough for Beloved, good enough for my parents, to go to Catholic school and have that fundamental set of beliefs, and then make our own choices as we grew up — and we believe it’s good enough for the boys, too. I may have issues with even some of the most basic precepts of the faith, but that doesn’t mean I discount the whole thing. I’m not anti-Catholic, it just took me a long time to reconcile my own fundamental beliefs with that of the Church. Over the years I’ve learned to have the courage to change the things I can and the serenity to accept those I cannot. It’s a philosophy that works for me, despite my occassional ponderings otherwise.<\/p>\n Kerry sent me an article<\/a> on what I was really <\/em>thinking about when I posted yesterday that gets to the heart of the matter much better than all the subsequent comments, so I wanted to share that with you, too.<\/p>\n I’m off to another ultrasound, to ground myself in what really matters to our family heading into this holiday season… the fact that we have each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve vacillated quite a bit about what to post today. Late last night, tears still stinging my eyes, I was going to turn off the comments and not post anything until after Christmas, or at least until after the weekend, to take a little break from blogging. The level of judgementalism in some of the … Continue reading “The nice thing about having a blog is getting the last word”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants-and-rambles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}