Reflection

With Ash Wednesday coming up this week, I've been trying to figure out how I want to spend this Lent Season. For a while I thought this year I might not give up something, but start something new - a food journal. I think my whole problem with eating is that I don't care. And I want to care, I should care what I'm putting into my body, so maybe a food journal will help.

But then I started really evaluating my time and how it's spent during the day. I waste a ridiculous amount of time on the internet. Mainly facebook, and frankly it's getting quite annoying. I don't like bumping into people and knowing things because facebook told me. I've found myself comparing myself to others on facebook too and that is just stupid. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great way to reconnect with other people, especially those you haven't seen in a while and I know facebook isn't going anywhere anytime soon. I love seeing pictures of my friend's children and their families. I think the internet has saved me as a stay at home mom - but other times it's cursed me too. So I'm going to step away from facebook for a while, for hopefully a long while. I'm not deactivating my account (which by the way I think the only real reason I'm not deactivating it is because you need a facebook account to play the scrabble app on the iPhone - ha, how pathetic am I?). So I can still respond to messages and all that jazz.

This reflection also got me thinking about blogging. Do I share too much information about my life? Are there creepy people reading my blog? Should I not be posting pictures of me and my family? Should I make a password for my blog so I know exactly who can see things? I'm going to think about these things the next few weeks, but I know I'm not going to stop blogging. It's therapeutic. It's an online baby book for my boys, which by the way I could have bound into a book at any given moment if I wanted to thanks to a website called blurb or something. Plus I have a lot of out of town friends and family I like to keep updated.

And now something completely off topic - our washer broke this weekend. Like broke, broke. It was an old washer. All of the appliances in our house are old, but the majority of them work. ha. The sad news is that we've been talking for a while about getting all new appliances, but not even thinking about the washer and dryer. And then of course, this happens. Isn't that always how it goes? We bit the bullet and bought a front load washing machine and a new dryer too. Funny story about our old dryer - it's actually a fairly new dryer. But when we bought the house, they told us the timing belt did not work. Therefore, you couldn't set the timer on the dryer so it wouldn't stop unless you went down there and stopped it. The people who owned this house before us are great and we ran into them at our neighbors house and he said he even bought a brand new timing belt and it didn't fix it. You don't even want to know how many times I have started that dryer and completely forgot about it until 5, yes 5 hours later. One night, I let it go all night long because I forgot about it when I went to bed! The new ones are getting installed on Wednesday I think. I'll be sure to take some before and after pictures, even though our laundry room is in our dungeon.

Happy Monday!