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Hello everyone,

I am very disappointed that financial peace university only gives you one year access. We were watching videos as we checked the boxes that way we kept ourself in the material longer vs binge watching and forgetting. We paid off our credit card and paid off our one loan and we worked so hard to do it. We were excited to log in and do the making money course, but poof it’s gone.

This is so unfair as working through the debt snowfall takes time and it makes it predictors in a way.

Anyway if you read this Dave Ramsey… please give us our subscription back!

Anyway other people here, what do the last two videos talk about?

Okay I’m very open to advice here and I’m sorry if I ramble.

Anyway I was raised both Catholic and Protestant. My mom insisted I went to Methodist church, my dad insisting I went to Catholic school and Catholic mass. I am now a practicing Catholic and I was baptized Methodist, but I have all my Catholic sacraments up to confirmation and marriage. That’s my background.

Anyway, the most important thing isn’t to be Catholic, it’s to know Jesus and have a relationship right? But then what happens when your walks of life are so different.

I’ve been struggling with a few scenarios… and I am a person very open about my faith and if I’m talking to you about something Gods probably going to come up. But what’s happening is I have a mixed group of friends, some Protestant and some Catholic. We have a little FaceTime Bible study, we have little hang outs, a group chat, nothing fancy but we have friendship.

But anyway I have Protestant friends that are so guided by the spirit and nothing they do contradicts my beliefs as a Catholic, but I have also had some really hard experiences with Protestants who will talk to me about life and say things like “I’m going to trust God with my fertility and just be open to life” but not yet be married. I have had the occasion arise where a friend had a terminal diagnosis late in pregnant and schedules an abortion “to do the right thing and prevent suffering” I have had the occasion arise again about “science is so cool and a gift from God and how cool we have IVF as a tool” so on and so on.

Anyway, as Catholics we are not judged on other peoples decisions, but how do we bring people to Christ who are already claiming to walk with Christ and then having to talk about God and then these such topics. Usually I try and say something like here’s a document form the church if you want to look further. I really shouldn’t speak on this or something. Or in the abortion case I did address the person and state that it was wrong. I usually then get hit with, the Catholic Church shames. They use dogma to control. I am solo scriptura. I just want to focus on a relationship with God when I speak but not compromise my own beliefs in the process. I am having trouble seeing and holding space for friends going through stuff, when I talk about God and then I’m faced with a lot of topics the church clearly has a stance on. We are so blessed to have the church we have to rely on, I wish others could see that… but man. I try to exist along side some people and I feel I’m walking in the shadows of what the church says not to do and trying to navigate conversations and not seem like a b*tch but also not agree or promote ideas against the church. I really thought being a sister in Christ would be easy… not so hard. Even my mother who is so so religion I remember talking to as a teen and saying I wanted to wait to have sex until marriage and she said that’s nice but people just don’t really do that anymore. I wish she wouldn’t said well let’s look what the Bible says or what the church says or something.

Again this is not all my Protestant friends. Some situations. But man it’s getting tough at times.

Okay so I just went through a really tragic thing with a friend, or better to say I witnessed a friend go through a really tragic thing.

Anyway I want to keep this short on purpose to keep it more private, but my friend found out at her 20 week scan that the baby has a genetic condition that would not be compatible with life or would pass shortly after birth. I prayed a lot for her.

But here’s the catch. She scheduled a late abortion that was so late it was illegal in our state and had to go to another state where it was legal. I have a toddler so imagining the process kept me up at night. I stated to her I could not support this decision but would support her and I did try, but often I would just reply with a Bible verse or a prayer and not engage in dialog where she would ask me to support her.

Anyway this girl is Christian but not Catholic and we always talk about God together. I think that’s an added detail. I even called a few priests and talked to them with how to handle this situation with my friend.

Anyway God ended up taking her baby three days before her procedure so it wasn’t a technical abortion, and we are friends that have hung out and I’ve supported her in her loss.

Here’s my question. She was going to get the abortion either way, and was trying to validate her choice to me even after her baby passed and she’s actívely still trying to get pregnant again when her and her husband are carriers of the same thing and it is a 1/4 chance to happen again. I know being open to life is good, and I think she has great faith to try again, but I’m terrified to be close to her in another pregnancy. She says they will scan earlier next time for the condition, I don’t even want to know what that means for her choice of how to proceed.

Anyway I want to stay her friend but never want to he so faced with abortion talk again. I’m fearful to he too close.

But I praying she had a healthy baby next time around and I believe God will answer the pray.

Story: my parents booked us camping Thursday through Sunday to meet up and spend time with our son and have some family time. We are going to arrive Thursday night and leave Sunday morning. We booked a Saturday morning safari and we booked a Friday morning horse ride tour. Do you think he will be bored? I feel like you can’t really be bored camping and cooking out etc. any advice? Did we really book too long?

Hey everyone! I grew up with Pets and I’m a total animal lover. I have two cats and a dog and my 16 month old just became allergic to my two cats. We have to rehome them to my parents and now I’m terrified he will be allergic to our Dog that he LOVES and that I bought to heal a part of my childhood when my childhood dog passed away early unexpected. Anyone with eczema have postive experiences with dogs or pets?

Edit: has anyone tried pacagen? I ordered it to try until my mom picks up our cats to rehome.

My little family of three is such a wonderful blessing, but I’m struggling with knowing when to try for baby #2. I know most people on the internet won’t know what’s right for a stranger so maybe I’m looking for people to share their experience.

So I’m an only child and I felt from a young age God has placed on my heart to focus on family and community in family, being open to life, and trying to rebuild some of the community my parents generation had that I never got to see. Growing up I had my aunts, uncles, and grandparents around, parents around. I spent to much time with them… but you see people stopped having kids my generation. I was an only child. I have a few cousins that don’t really talk to each other, and they haven’t had kids yet. Just two of them and live far away out of the six.

I love the community and family stories my dad retells from his childhood. They all went to church, had community, large family at holidays, now the new generation… I’m the only cousin of all to still go to church and my dad falls depressed in holidays from the lack of family left that gets together.

I feel God has placed on my heart to pour into my family and community and have a big family. Except…

My son is almost 18 months and I feel God is calling me to not try for another yet or for a while? Why would I feel he is calling me to have a big family, but calling me to abstain every single fertile period and I can’t even imagine when my next pregnancy would occur. It seems I feel guilt for thinking about wanting to try again. It seems my inner voice says not to and I wonder if this is the Holy Spirit?

How did you all discern when to and when not to abstain or try to conceive with NFP? Sometimes I wish I never learned it haha. Jkjk it’s a good tool and blessing.

The other thing is my husband works evenings and weekends. He doesn’t have a degree and works in something specialized he and his friend built from the ground up. I am a teacher so I carry the insurance and I don’t think we could afford for me to not work (in regards to insurance and retirement)

Through my job I can take long maternity leaves and plan to take a year off next time around, but pregnancy is next to impossible with my 40 minute commute, my horrible nausea I get, and no one home in the evenings or weekends for me to have off time to rest. It’s like God is calling me to two different roles that are so so hard to do together. I’ve talked to priests (twice) if I should quit my job and they both say no. That through Gods grace I will overcome and I did the first time around, but I would get nauseas at the fear of having to do it all again and with a toddler.

My husband is flying his family in next school year to live with us, so I’m hoping maybe to have my next pregnancy then so I could nap after work and rest if needed, but I almost feel God is still saying it’s not time. Maybe I just feel like that bc it’s not next year yet though idk?

And lastly my dads side is Catholic and my moms side is Protestant and she always says “I hope you don’t get pregnant for a while” which hurts me bc I feel called to have a big family and I really need support to do the impossible lol.

Any input or prior experience is welcome!

Additional edit: I am 29 and my 18month old still breast feeds do to dairy, egg, and peanut that he can’t eat and I also struggle with this. I have a really strict diet so his allergies and eczema stay under control and plan to aim to wean over summer or at least get down to one session a day. Now I nurse evenings and pump at lunch for his nap milk.

My 16 month old is not eating solids too great, but I heard that it is normal for toddlers to eat more some days and less others.

Right now my 16 month old nurses at nap time (11) and when I get home from work (4) and then sometimes another snack (6) and then before bed (8) and then again usually at 3am. Does this seem like too much or not enough? In a teacher do about to be on summer break and I’m a little nervous for an eating regression when I’m home more.

Hey everyone! Another question here haha.

So my son has eczema we can keep in control by using long sleeves and long pants, but with the temps rising I’m concerned what we will do. After an hour or two he will have what seems to be clear skin open and bleeding. Yes we keep his nails short. It’s all knee and elbow creases or wrists.

So any links to some products to use?