1.25.12 Electronic Free Wednesdays

So, today on the way home from work, I was listening to Joel Olsteen and he was talking about "Garbage in, Garbage out". He talked about how short life is to live it filling our minds with junk. He also made a statement about allowing the TV to be a babysitter and allowing our children to watch whatever they wanted. So it got me to thinking about how much TV I allow my kids to watch and how much video games and other mindless crap I allow to entertain my kids. I also thought about how much time I really am spending with them. Over a month ago I put a lock on the computer so it would shut off at 7PM. That's good and all, but I felt for me and my kids I needed to go a step further. I've also given up my soap opera (over 3 months ago). I feel like these little things are making me more healthy. I'm spending more time with my kids and enjoying getting to know them, love them, appreciate them. I hope one day they can say the same about this time we're spending together. I know this isn't all going to change overnight, but little changes now... for a big change later. I hope I don't sound to "braggy-brag", just what I'm going through. There was some resistance, but in the end I found us sitting on the living room floor, laughing and playing a board game. How blessed I feel! To be out of bed and out playing with my kids! I also made dinner again tonight and we had my brother (in-law) Stephen over for dinner and it was so nice! I made a pineapple upside down cake and blessed my husband! Well, time to end here...love you, love me, love you, love me!