Looking Back!

It's very hard to decide how to share spending time with family, work, and school work. I have an eighteen month old daughter Sarah, she is my world. I like spending time with her and just being home. There are other important things that I have to do when I am not at work such as studying, working on the house and spending time with my family. Time is so limited. Sometimes I look at my daughter and see how much she has grown. I wonder where I have been, and where the time went since she was born. Apart from going to work and school I have always been right here. I could remember it was only yesterday we brought Sarah home for the Hospital. She was born six weeks premature and stayed in the hospital only one week. My eye was filled with tears when I first saw my daughter. She was so small, The first time I held her in my arms she opened her eyes. When she saw me she started crying, seem like she was saying to me that I should tell the nurses and doctors she was hungry and wanted a bottle. The first day she was born at the hospital she was not bottle fed, the nurses and doctors did not feed her because they said she was too small to be bottle fed. Her Lungs may not be fully developed to be bottle fed. The following day Sarah was ready for the world and began bottle feeding. There is nothing I would rather do than just spend every second of my time with my family and Sarah!

Getting Started

Just by reading the section on religious traditions, I have learned quite a bit on the different marriage traditions throughout the world. There were a few questions that came to my mind before reading this weeks material, one being, what was the significance of the breaking of the goblet by the Jewish groom? It's unique to learn how different religions treat situations differently, which gave rise to traditions that are still followed to this day. What I was very interested in reading about was the Muslim marriage traditions. In Muslim marriages, I got a feeling, that there was not much romance involved. It was more of a contract, where the woman kept her own name and was left with her own property. My impressions also were that divorce was easy to obtain in the Muslim faith, and males could have more than one wife. There were no religious sacraments associated with Islamic marriages. The purpose for marriage that came up more than once was the atmosphere to create a stable environment for raising children.