I read 25 books in 2025! Although to be honest it doesn't look like that much when it's all stacked up; I guess next year I should aim to make the stack at least as tall as the toddler, but then she'll also be taller so maybe that is a losing proposition, haha. I love to hear book twins or "if you liked... you'll like..." suggestions!
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I saw another one of those posts the other day that was calculating the dollar value of everything a mother does in a day. I understand the temptation to find some way to concretely “prove” the value of the work of a mother. But we need to stop making and sharing those posts, because by their very nature they undermine the real value of the mother’s role by conceding that very point which we should most insistently refuse: that reality is intrinsically an economic proposition, that money is the supreme measure of the value of all things, or at the very least that it is appropriate to subject spiritual/relational/eternal goods to this measure.
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One of my longtime favorite terms is family culture. Those two words are so rich with ideas and sum up so much of what I think and care about. When I first heard the term I wouldn’t say it was widely used (in that it wasn’t part of the common vernacular), and it had a very specific meaning. But in recent years I have started to see the idea bandied about more and more, especially on visual-heavy platforms like Instagram. It’s the same sort of phrase, but it doesn’t mean the same thing. This is the rise of the consumeristic, materialistic, curated “family culture”.
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