When I decided to blog about my family’s “unplugging” experience, I knew I’d have to be honest with all of you about the good days and the not-so-good ones. Unfortunately, today falls into the latter category. My oldest had a sleepover with a friend over the weekend. I’m not a fool, and I intentionally didn’t […]

Hello friends, I don’t know how many of you are following our journey (you can let me know by leaving a comment or “following” the blog), but we’ve made it through our first unplugged week. While I wish I could paint a a beautiful word picture for you of compliant children that are relieved the […]

And we continue to remain unplugged. My secret weapon today was Darling Sitter #1 (DS1 for short). DS1 has been around our home for over a year, and the girls LOVE her. When she isn’t away at school, I love having her over. She is great with the girls; they will do just about anything […]

Wow, old habits die hard. I think we’re making some progress, though. When little one got out of the tub tonight, it was the first time she didn’t automatically ask for a show. My oldest alternates between accepting that the TV is off and pushing me to see if I’ll give in just to keep […]

Although the TV was on for awhile (tornado warnings!), we’ve gone 3 days without the kids watching any kind of entertainment on the box. They didn’t even watch the news with the tornado warnings in our area – no need to frighten them, but I wanted to know what was going on. Both kids have […]

Hello again! We made it through our second day without entertaining TV. I’m putting the “entertaining” qualifier on it today because the weather here had the potential to get really ugly at one point, so I turned on The Weather Channel. I still didn’t let the kids watch — the scenes of Joplin, Missouri are […]

As a matter of fact, we did. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, but I was surprised that it was my 3-year-old who had a harder time with it than my 9-year-old. When the TV is on, my toddler seldom “watches” what is on. It is usually background noise to another […]

It’s been awhile, I know. I’m coming back to blog and let you know what we are doing with our summer. Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen how much of an influence television is in our family. When my 9-year-old started telling me that she didn’t want to go outside and play because “Show […]

I threw out a dead plant today. You may be thinking, “So what?” or wondering why I think this is such a big deal. To me, it’s a big step toward my healing. You see, that plant was given to my family four years ago. It was at the funeral for my nineteen-day-old child. Nineteen […]