Family Spotlight: The Vizcaino Family

Introducing Jesse, Emily, Joshua, Zachary, and Lucas Vizcaino! I don’t know about you, but adjusting to life during a pandemic has been an ongoing effort in our home. While it has been a blessing to have the family togetherness, it has also been a continuous adjustment for us to figure out our roles and dynamics in working as a team to parent our three boys while everyone is home 24-7.

I've been learning that sometimes in my striving to look and be that perfect Pinterest mom and wife, I bulldoze through everyone’s opinions because “mom knows best.” I have to trust that the Lord is leading my husband and I choose to actively submit to him. Sometimes this means giving him the space to be the husband/father he wants to be, whether that means setting the tone with our disciplining style or deciding that bedtime is a great time for a game of tickle hide and seek with the boys. Other times, that means encouraging him and helping him grow as a leader in our home. For Jesse, it has been learning to show love and understanding in a tangible manner. Recently, this has been through reprioritizing things in his life so that he can be more engaged in the boys' interests and to share some of the physical and emotional workload. This past week's sermon was a great reminder that good parenting starts with first focusing on our marriage.