So Much to Say, So Little Time

Welcome back, Erin!  This is your blog.  I've been missing you.  

Yes, yes you have.  I am now the mother of six, so perhaps I can be forgiven.  I've been rawther busy with the brood, with more midnight diaper changes, feedings, Rosaries, etc. As a dear friend of mine pointed out, I make 7 x 3 meals per day, that's 21 meals a day, 7 days a week which totals 147 meals to throw together. My wonderful husband enjoys cooking on the weekends when he has time, and my oldest daughter can now make meals herself, so the number I actually make is slightly less than 147.  The comparison between that number, and only 21 meals a week for a single person is shocking.  

It's also shocking how the state of our state, our economy, and our culture fairly screams for more people to write about common sense.  When you consider how few people have intact homes, you can understand how much education is needed in our beloved America to bring about a better quality of life.  Learning common sense has to come from parents and grandparents first, then the village.  Kids who are raised in broken homes, with scandal, drugs, and abuse cannot be expected to learn the Ten Commandments if they have no one to teach them.  

And make no mistake, what is happening to our American kids is nothing short of scandalous.  We need to bring back the good guilt in this country, so that when people move in together and start intimate relationships with absolutely NO foundation, their consciences will wake them up.  In this way, we can prevent child abuse, partner abuse, and a whole host of other evils.  Scandal has become yawn-worthy in our time, and that's tragic.  I call it like I see it. I still have parents who are married to each other.  I'm not perfect, but I would like to be a role model to those who have none.

After two years of inner debate, I've decided to totally and completely be myself on this blog.  It's my blog. I'm a Catholic homeschooling mother of six, and as much as I would like to reach the ENTIRE world with common sense, I have to be myself, even if that means alienating people who are turned off by Christianity.  (Yes, Catholics are Christians, although many people who call themselves Christians don't act like it!)  At least on a blog post, the reader has time to get to know me, to work out ideas and philosophies with me, and to enjoy a longer journey.  Facebook just doesn't cut it.  I'm extremely frustrated with Facebook, so I think I'll take the time to really get back to my writing, in the hope that I can help people, and even make them laugh while smacking the Internet upside the head with a good dose of Irish bold.  We have to be bold, courageous, and energetic while attacking evil and the root causes of decay in our society.  To be shut up in a corner is to live half a life. 

Here's to all the women who refuse to be quiet.  Common sense dictates that there is, in fact, a time and a place to be loud.