i'm a young married mother of three beatuiful babies. my husband is a baptized JW, he was raised in the truth, he got away for awhile we met and made the decision to bring our children up in the truth. so far every single one of the brothers and sisters have been nothing but amazingly friendly. i was raised cathloic, i've now been having weekly book studies and attending the meetings for about 7 months. everything i've learned seems so common sense i feel like i know this is the truth. i'm joining your forum as well as researching all i can as a sort of "sealing the deal" with myself. i'm having a hard time letting go of some of the traditions we grew up with, and recently my mother whom i haven't been close with in a long time got very sick and was given a blood transfusion, which gave me alot to think on. i guess i'm really just confused about everything.