A Webb of Thoughts

When I first enrolled in Family Relations, I was really nervous since this is my very first semester of college, and I’m taking three other multi credit courses at the same time, AND I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to juggle all of those in my schedule.  I also felt like I would not be able to keep up on the blog posts since I’m not much of a talker.  I can be a talker when I want to be, but that’s beside the point.  My point with the blog is I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to write enough subject material to get full credit.  I considered dropping the class to focus on my other classes, but I came to the conclusion that I should at least try the class for the first week and see how it goes.  The first two weeks passed by pretty slowly, but I was incredibly intrigued by the level of knowledge and enthusiasm that my professor had on the subject of marriage and family relations.  After I had made some friends in the class, and after some serious con...

  I thought I would start off this blog post with some quotes I found about parents and their kids: 1. Silence is golden...unless you have kids.  Then, silence is suspicious. 2. There should be a children's song that goes, "If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let Dad sleep." 3. You wanna know what having a fourth child is like?  Just imagine you're drowning...and then someone hands you a baby.  4. The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you think you're experienced, all of a sudden, you're unemployed.   I also once heard from a wise, albino comedian named Jim Gaffigan, that being a parent is not that different from being a tourist in a foreign country.  With parenting and tourism, you walk around exhausted, spending money you don't have on things you don't need...while you struggle to find a bathroom.  Just somewhere to sit down. It's the same experience. Anyways, enough with the silliness.  It’s time to be se...

This week, I’m offering some thoughts on marriage and finances.   First, consider the human body.  In extreme weather conditions such as the cold which can result in the different stages of hypothermia, the body has a way of reacting in such a way that will allow the person to stay alive until help is available.  Your body, in a way, has a mind of its own, in the sense that it will literally recognize that it’s in distress, and it needs to switch to survival mode.  Realizing that it is in trouble, the body will stop pumping blood to extremities (your hands and feet), and redirect the focus of that blood flow to the core of the body.  Your organs and your brain.  The vitals.  That which is ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL for your survival.  It instinctively knows, “This is what I need to do to keep this body alive.”  Your body will go to the extremes of losing fingers, toes, etc in order to keep the rest of you alive.   Now take what I have ...