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Alrighty... Time to start day two. I've decided that I am going to attempt to blog once a day, at least until I get this down. And seeing as I don't really have an audience yet, I might as well take this time to sort through some of the BS that needs to be established, but at the same time I don't intend on discussing frequently. I'm going to try to tackle some of the larger, more contreversial issues now so that I don't have to later - and if I do, I can merely site what I've written here and move forward from that.
So, I guess I'll start of with religion/spirituality. I do want to state that I have no intention of using this blog as a platform for my views and beliefs in this area. I have the utmost respect for the right to believe and practice whatever you want, or to not take part at all. I realize that in posting this, I may be opening myself up for critisism, but I don't really care. I can take the heat.
I personally prefer the term spirituality to religion. My beliefs are everchanging, and likely always will be. I feel like the term religion is too strict to allow for change. My specific set of beliefs and spirituality doesn't have a name - at least not one that I know of. I believe that God - whoever/whatever that may be - is completely infinite. I'm a very all or nothing kind of girl, and I mostly prefer all to nothing. What I mean by this, that God is infinite, is that by stating that I just believe in the Christian God, or this god or that god, or even this set of gods, I'm placing it into a finite role. I'm basically saying that once I cross "this" line, my god can't save me. Now, I'm not saying that I want to perform evil deeds by any means. No, I have no intentions of going on a baby murder rampage. I just want the freedom to make mistakes. And, as I said before, I'm kind of all or nothing - so when I mess up, I do it big.
I choose to base my morals around those of the Christian faith. I still attend church from time to time, and I'm very close to some very VERY religious people. I have yet to clash with anyone about this particular view - however I was told once recently by an aquaintance that my point of view made him uncomfortable. So, we came to an agreement that I won't spout my BS if he will pay me the same respect. And, now that that's out of the way, I suppose that's all I ask of you... My... somewhat small to nonexistent audience. And, really, I don't see that there will be any problems any time soon.
Okay. What else?... Child-rearing. Again - I will try not to step on your feet if you agree to do the same. It's every parent's right to do what they want with their children (within state-regulated reason, thank you) and so long as your child is not harming me, my child, or our property, I will do my best to stay out of your way.
As I'm sure most parents do, I am constantly having to update my bag of tricks and trades in child-rearing. Pretty much the only constant part of the equation in my life as a mother has been consistency. I've gotten into a number of (for some reason) very heated debates concerning this. I personally just don't see how you can raise a child with inconsistent rules and values. But, like I said, I'll stay out of your business as a parent so long as you're not causing harm to me and mine.
Here's my primary example of an argument I got into. I just started college this year. I'd been out of school for 7 years - lived in the "real world," had jobs, rented my own house, established and maintained a relationship, got married, and had a child (plus the other various ups and downs we all go through as adults.) within those 7 years. I have accumulated some life experience, basically. I don't claim to be some wise elder by any means, or even to carry a shred of wisdom in comparison to my elders, but I know what's going on. Anyway. My first college assignment was to
