Idealism {a.k.a. Irony}
This is our virtue of the week. For those of you who have been following this blog for a while, you may remember that Mark and I use the Virtues Guide as family prep. We select a virtue a week, study it together, and then try to focus on opportunities to practice it. One of the concepts of the book is that you can study a virtue a week with your children in order to help teach them these virtues. One of our friends had been doing this with her partner since they were dating - now married they still do a virtue a week. Since there are so many virtues and you only spend a week on each one, doing them over and over, year after year, takes a while to get repetitive. We liked the idea and started doing it ourselves, so that we'd know a thing or two about these virtues before we sat down to work on them with future children. [I must admit, I don't think this is the person I envisioned myself becoming when I was younger.]
So, this week is idealism. Which is so ironic it's not even funny. What makes idealism funny to a girl who spends years working to get her master's degree just to jump ship, move to Israel and work 44 hours a week to earn, literally, nothing for 30 months? Well, umm, see ... it's been our 'virtue of the week' now for, oh, well, I think about 3 weeks now (it's actually longer than that but I'm choosing not to include our week in Spain).
Yes, folks, here we are, preparing ourselves to raise our as yet unconceived children but can't seem to get around to reading about idealism!
Well, idealism will be our virtue of the week for at least another week, I geuss. (Mara then weakly smiles and blushes as she can hear her brother Nathan laughing raucously all the way from Edinburgh. I'm here for you, Nae. Any time you need a laugh, well, you know where to find me!)
