{"id":1114,"date":"2004-03-09T08:36:56","date_gmt":"2004-03-09T13:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2004-03-09T08:36:56","modified_gmt":"2004-03-09T13:36:56","slug":"i-dont-wanna-te","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/03\/i-dont-wanna-te\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don’t Wanna Tell"},"content":{"rendered":"

HMS Blog addresses families’ unhappy reactions to a new addition to a large-ish family<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I would like to kick off this coversation with a reminder that Gaudium et Spes #50 that tells us that parents have the obligation–in the sight of God–to prayerfully decide what is God’s plan for the size of their family. While parents are obliged to take into account the interests of the Church, the other children in the family, and other factors, no one else may interfere in that decision. And no one can ordain themselves to do what the Church herself does not ordain herself to do, specifically, to tell parents when and when not to have another child. We rejoice in every life given to us, and we pray that each of us would be open to God’s unique plan for our lives. Period.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My brother who read my blog weighs in that what I need is a more creative way to tell people-like they do on TV.<\/p>\n

The only problem is that you didn’t tell people in a creative way. They didn’t have blogs on “Full House.” When Rebecca was pregnant, she told Jesse in a game of Pictionary. So, when you play Pictionary like every family does on Friday nights, you need to tell everyone that you’re doing a movie title, and when Jesse guesses, he’s gonna say “cheese half-ink a baby.” The whole audience will laugh, especially when he shows up to the hospital dressed as Fred Flintstone and needs his apendix removed. Or if you have a bigoted father-in-law named Archie, he could show up to the hospital in black face, but I don’t think too many people would appreciate that. Or if your name is Elyse Keaton, you could be stuck in a television station during a snow storm while your husband, Steven, is stuck with the plumber.
\nAnyways, the moral of the story is that if you want a laugh track, Josh needs to change his name to Jesse Katsopolous, or better yet, Uncle Jesse. I guess you can forget the other stuff, because it obviously isn’t as important as the Friday-night games of Pictionary that Michelle loves so much.
\nThis and the episodes of “Family Matters” where Steve Urkel turns into his cool alter-ego, “Stefan,” just prove my point that sitcoms teach us a lot about the real world. I’m starting to forget what I was talking about originally, so I’ll stop.
\nJust forget Oreos and eat “Cool J” cookies. \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HMS Blog addresses families’ unhappy reactions to a new addition to a large-ish family. I would like to kick off this coversation with a reminder that Gaudium et Spes #50 that tells us that parents have the obligation–in the sight of God–to prayerfully decide what is God’s plan for the size of their family. While… Continue reading I Don’t Wanna Tell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pansyiana","category-parenting-and-family-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}