I must say I freaked out a bit!
April 13th, 2008
I was miserable the first 3 days of this fast and kept asking my husband to check something online for me. He kept responding with “I’m not your dealer!” ouch! loved the media fast. I stayed away from doing anything that resembled a “have to” like cleaning the garage got so much accomplished. I will go without phone, tv, cable, and a dishwasher and dryer but don’t take away my online access can’t wait to do one again!
Seriously, after I stopped pacing in circles, and relaxed, I found all sorts of wonderful things to do. I painted, and I sewed 3 new things for my mini-me. (”I’ll post pics later) Mike calls her “Mommies little dress up doll”. I listened to a series by Eugene Peterson from Regent called Jesus and Prayer. It was great. I highly recommend downloading some of their teaching series.
I also did something surprisingly healing for me. You may be shocked and horrified to know, I don’t have completed baby books or albums for our dear children. So I wanted to create a framed group of pictures of all of them from birth to now, one for every year to see their progress. I was SO THANKFUL that my dear, amazing husband documented all of the early years with photos and videos and has them neatly archived on our computer. I have just recently been able to go back through them all and enjoy them instead of being overwhelmed. It was so fun to see their growth and our families growth all in a very compressed 2 hour period. I got to relive the time without the pain, sleeplessness, vomiting etc. and remember the beauty and joy of it without needing to have it back again. Wow it is amazing how much older we look in the past 5 years. I had been freaking out dealing with the fact that our middle child turns 5 in a few months and I am sadly solidly out of the baby phase. After reviewing the pictures and family videos, I realized I was as present as I could be and enjoyed every minute to the best of my ability and hope to keep that in view as we move forward. Life is alwasy changing, I can’t hold on to any season, I just need to be present in every season so that I will live with no regrets.
More later!
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5 Comments
Add your own1. Rachel | April 14th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
I understand how you feel…my two babies just turned three, and they are always telling me, “I not a baby, I a BOY”. I have enjoyed every minute with them also, but it is also very sad!
2. Liz | April 15th, 2008 at 5:40 am
I really envy you having all those photos and movies of your children when they are small. My 3 kids were born in the 70’s and and we had no camcorders in those days. We have photos, but with film you don’t take so many.It would be nice to have recorded their voices too.
You know if I was doing it all again I would definitely home school my children. You sound like a great Mum.
3. Vicki | April 16th, 2008 at 12:12 am
You are a bad, I mean, good influence on me. I am considering a media fast myself. I really could use it. I might actually finish a few projects, lol.
So tell me more about it. Is media simply computer, tv, radio or is there more included?
4. Amber(Homeschool Diva) | April 16th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Vicki -
I have done many kinds of media fasts. They are really to create space in your life to listen. Spiritually speaking, silence and solitude are one of the most important disciplines that in this day in age, rarely happen. How can we hear God when we are too busy listening to other input?
This one, was really to help me engage in creative process and not push down the things I keep saying I want to do creatively. I had no computer, and no reading, I did listen to a teaching series while I sewed and the kids had the tv on for some of it. In my book that doesn’t count, because come on, not many Moms escape with Little Einsteins:-)I think you would enjoy one. Let me know if you decide to do it.
5. Vicki | April 16th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
I think I will set some things up and do one. I am not sure when, I just received a call that my Grandpa is in the hospital so I will be taking a road trip very soon. After that, I may really need a break.
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