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One of Ethan's friends had a "media fast" last week. Their entire family refrained from tv, video games, iPods, internet, and other sources of electronic entertainment for an entire week. When Ethan's friend came over to play and told my boys about it, Aidan looked at me in alarm and said, "But what do they do for fun? Just play with toys?" Hmmm. This definitely got my mental wheels rolling. When Christian and I suggested the possibility last night of doing a week without electronics, Aidan said in a distressed voice, "Would I even be able to watch Peep?" This pretty much cements the fact that we need to do this. I'll keep you posted as to when we start. (Maybe some of you could be involved too, and we could all do it the same week, and then post about the results the following week...)
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On the menu for tonight? Chili and cinnamon rolls. Happy sigh. (P.S. I have been making things from my pile of recipes. There just hasn't been anything worth blogging about.)
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Last week, Kaitlyn started crawling and her first tooth came through. I am loving every single milestone she hits. Well, except for the first big bruise she got on her head last night as a result of trying to pull herself up onto the piano bench while I was teaching Ethan. I don't love the "I look like I'm being abused" phase.
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I have a few French novels (written in French, mostly classics(ish) written by French authors) that I have decided I am ready to let go of. If anyone is interested, let me know in the comments. And if more than one person is actually interested, I'll let random.org do the picking and I'll mail them to you. (If no one is interested, that's okay. They are in my DI pile.)
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My mother-in-law got me an Aerogarden for Christmas, which is a little hydroponic garden that sits on my counter. Yesterday for breakfast, I put fresh dill in our scrambled eggs and they were divine. I plan on making margherita pizza very soon with the basil. Now someone tell me - what do I do with fresh sage??
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Lovely! Indoor herb gardens, cinnamon rolls, bruised babies and no electronics! Fun life! I'll be interested to hear about the electronics fast. And of course I'm very interested in reading your serious posts!!
I really hope my pothead kids don't know about that device.
I cannot wait to hear about your week without electronics. We so need to do this but I would need medication.
Love the garden!
I think the media fast is a great idea. Our entire stake actually had a media fast from all electronics for one Sunday last year. It was a very good thing.
I love the garden idea, I've never seen one of those before.
I've often though about doing a media fast but I think my kids could handle it an awful lot better than me!
The garden looks so spiffy!
We love to use sage on Chicken. We use sage and thyme together on the chicken and then use a can of Cream of chicken soup for the sauce and put it over rice. mmmmmm
I always thought it was modge podge. Have I been wrong all this time? That's vaguely embarrassing:)
I don't know an ounce of French, but I have a cousin that's fluent. If no one else asks for the books, I'd be happy to give them to her before they ran off to DI.
I have a delicious recipe for Basil Bacon Marinara. So yummy. I'll have to get it for you.
About your first part, it's so hard to write something the way that you really feel about it without offending someone. You're right, that's hard. Happened to me today.
And I could be wrong, but I think sage is good in Chicken Pot Pie.
I have quite a few post in draft also, for that very same reason. I guess my fear of being "judged" is more that people are too close-minded and focused on conformity. I hope you open up and say what you feel...hopefully I will too also :o)
I wish I had posts in draft form. My blogging has hit a long hard and dry spell.
As for the media fast...I will have to think on that one. My 12 year old did this a few months back and actually did pretty good at it. Even when the rest of us were sitting on the computer or watching tv or playing on the wii. He went outside with his friends, read books and played with his little sister. I was pretty impressed.
I'll bring it up with the fam. I'm thinking it would be easier to do when the weather gets better around here.
No idea about the sage. I'm crap when it comes to seasonings. Sea Salt is about as fancy as I get.
I'm having a hard time being myself on my blog, too. But where you feel inhibited by strangers, I feel inhibited by people I know. Family and friends who read.
Aubrey is walking and insisting on feeding herself. I'm trying really hard to embrace her milestones, but mostly I'm sad at how fast it's going.
Our babies must be twins! Mine has some pretty good bruises going on right now, too!
I'd LOVE to do a media fast!
Ryder has two teeth now but not crawling yet, though if you hold him up he thinks he can walk.
It would be very hard for us to go a week without electronics. Maybe we could just try the TV :)
I'm like Wonder Woman -- more worried about the people that I actually know reading my blog than offending others out there on the internet. It's hard, to put it all out there.
So exciting with all of Kaitlyn's firsts!! :)
Very cool little garden thing. I like sage in meatloaf. I love meatloaf. Now I'm hungry.
You can give me a french book! I would give it to my dad. Hey do you have a good cinnamon roll recipe?? I made some from scratch today and they're not quite what I want.
I love the idea of an indoor herb garden! NOT the idea of a media fast - no way, no how! But good luck to you guys!
Can I come to dinner at your house!??! Seriously, I need a cinnamon roll now after reading that, haha!
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