Family Sociology

Hello dear friends! I have missed being back in this space with you this last week, but it has been good for me to take some time to process everything that happened during my adventure, to adjust back to "normal" life (which I am realizing cannot ever quite go back to exactly the way it was before), and to become aware of some lessons I need to learn and things I need to work through. I'm sure you'll get to hear bits and pieces about all those things in the week to come, but if there's something specific yall would like to hear about please feel free to ask :)

In the mean time I think I'm really going to enjoy only taking one class this semester. Yes, it should allow me time to finish up my CLEP tests and therefore my degree, but it is particularly this class that I think I am going to enjoy: Family Sociology. So many things have happened in the last eight weeks that I had nearly forgotten the description of the class from when I signed up for it; so when I got my book and started flipping through it I was surprised to discover that a lot of it deals with marriage. (I know, duh, family...marriage...yeah, somehow that didn't connect in my brain.) I was immediatly struck by the fact that this class is going to be much more interesting to me now than if I had taken it last semester when I was still convinced that my prince charming really had gotten run over by a lawn mower when he was still a frog ;) As class began last week though I began to see another piece of Providential timing.

While our textbook attempts to present a balanced perspective on marriage and family life, it is still a secular perspective. However, John and Stasi Eldrege (some of my favorite authors as most of you know) just wrote a new book on the the same subject called Love and War and I just happen to have a copy of it sitting in my room, itching to be read ;) And so I decided that perhaps now would be a good time to start it (even though I'm in the middle of two other fabulous books at the moment...ahem) because I think that reading it along side my textbook would be very beneficial. It would help me to see things from many different perspectives.

Now, by way of inviting lots of comments on this post, I have a question for each of you. My first paper for class is going to be lots of fun. Its about my ideal family and I have very few restrictions/guidelines other than that. I absotlutely can't wait for homework time tomorrow morning so I can have some concentrated brainstorming time for that topic :) In the mean time I would love to hear some of yall's thoughts on what you would include in such a paper. What are some snippets of what your ideal family would look like?