I’ve been thinking a lot about this situation, and how rare it is for us all as a nation to basically be in “lockdown” together. I realized this morning though, that how Mike and I respond to these challenges will be planting seeds in our children for the rest of their lives. Only we can decide if they are good seeds or bad seeds.
She enjoys being around her brothers though, and today, Daniel drew a pair of glasses and a mustache on himself just to get her to laugh. It worked. She laughed so hard, it vibrated the walls. Those are good sounds, and they fill my heart.
The Screen-Free Quarantine – Day 10 Today was… That’s the best part. It was. I’m learning that no matter what day it is, while we’re all going through this pandemic/social…
They place the food on the table and then I go pick it up and put it in the back of my car). It feels very Silence of the Lambs to me, and I keep thinking one of the lunch ladies is going to toss me a bottle of lotion, but so far, it hasn’t happened.
The Screen-Free Quarantine – Day 8 It sucked and I cried. I think that was a book written about motherhood by a blogger that I used to love. That was…
The Screen-Free Quarantine – Day 7 Wow! What a BUSY day! Today was the first “official” day of “home schooling.” I never in my life desired to home school my…
The Screen-Free Quarantine – Day 6 Sunday! We started the morning off with my husband’s weekly video call with believers in Kenya, Nepal and India. They all are very concerned…
[vcv_menu key=””] The Screen-Free Quarantine – Day 5 Welcome to Day 5 of our Screen-Free Quarantine! As you know, in yesterdays post, I was honest and said that I allowed…
Kasie finds change difficult. Not like you or I find change difficult. We are set off balance by change, and we may have an emotional or internal response to that change. After a few days, we adjust to the change and move on. These transitions are on autopilot for our brains and we almost don’t even think of them while they are happening
The boys like to hold my hands and have me pull them on their skateboards. “Run! Run!” They say. I got my workout today. The boys write in their journals…
Okay. Today was much better than Day 1. Seriously. I actually enjoyed some parts of today, and I got work done. This is saying a lot since I also stayed…
Day 1. 03/17/2020 Today is officially day 1 of our Screen-Free Quarantine*. The boys were with their father over spring break, and that lulled me into a false sense of…
So, we decided to become a screen-free family. I removed our Wii, took away my kids iPads, and even unplugged the television. But what happened next? I was encouraged when…
We chose to go on a road trip to visit family, and even though we packed puzzles, coloring books, and other traditional car games, the children had difficulty not being engaged by screens. My children did not know how to live without screens. They could not simply look out the car window and think. This was when the problem became real to me, and I became even more committed to keeping them screen free.