Finally Connected

I spent the last 2 weeks completely disconnected from internet and cable.

Be still my heart, I survived.

And surprisingly enough I grew to enjoy the silence.

I am one of those people who always has the television on.  Even if I am not watching it or have completely no interest in what is playing, it is on.

It just was.

So these last two weeks have been particularly interesting for me not having any source of television to fill up the sounds of my home.

And I started to like it.

I read books- I always am a reader but not to the extent of the last few weeks. I read my bible- have not done that in a very long time.  And Lincoln and I played- we always play but it was less distracting without the background noise, almost like it was him and me in our own little world.

It was peaceful.

But now I am reconnected, I am thankful to have the internet again.

So thankful.

But this morning I left the t.v. off.

There is nothing I want to watch, why turn it on.  It seems logical but that never would have happened before.

I don’t know why it seems so odd to me.

And sometimes I still do like the noise.  And I still enjoy watching certain shows, but now, if I am not watching it, I am going to turn it off.

Sometime silence or the sound of your little ones voice is all you need.

I came across this picture today, it is hard to believe he used to be so small…

 

A Saturday morning routine.

Thank goodness it is the weekend.  I need some time to just veg, be with my son, clean the house, pay my bills, go grocery shopping, and regain my sanity so that I can keep going for another 5 days until the weekend comes again.

Don’t get me wrong I LOVE my job, but it is still a job.  I still have to wake up early, it can still be stressful, and it is still work!  Love it or not.  I love the weekends more.

I am already feeling slightly restored.  Linc and I slept in until about 8:00 a.m. and now we are settling into our Saturday morning routine.

Play in bed.

Feed little Linc.

Turn on the television to some home improvement show and chill while Lincoln plays on the floor.

Ahhh….

I don’t know what it is about a home improvement show on a Saturday morning but I think I have developed an addiction.  I don’t think I could watch these shows at any other time during the week, but Saturday morning, glorious.

My favorite is Moving Up.  The premise of the show is that it follows three families as they “move up” into larger homes, the trick is they are moving into each others homes so in the end the families go back to their old home and see how the new inhabitants changed it.

Typically they hate it.

It is awesome.

So that is what I am doing right now.

By the way, Lincoln has now started pulling himself up on the coffee table, which is also cheap entertainment for me.  I love watching him try to work his way up there.

Crazy little boy.

I love watching him grow up.  At times at can be bittersweet as I miss the last stage of his life, but it is so fun to watch him learn new things it is hard to be too upset about the fact that my baby is becoming a boy.