March 21st

I am not sure what has happened to the time since we cut the cable. Joe has been busy with his work which definitely makes our evening and morning routines busy. We also don't get much sleep still with little bit waking up crying at least once a night. Sometimes by 9:00 pm we are heading to bed pretty much exhausted.

I haven't kept up with the blog too well because after cutting the cable, I found myself wanting to disconnect altogether. I thought it would be quite the opposite. We hardly use the computer other than for work and Skype calls on the weekend.

In some ways no cable tv has been difficult because without that hypnotic distraction we have been facing unfinished projects around the house and delving into our finances. Yuck. A depressing thing to do considering the economy for the past few years! There are probably more fun things we could be doing, but this is the reality of our exiting lives! We have actually done lots of fun stuff too. We had a fun Valentines Day with our 22 month old, we have been to the zoo, saw Annie at a local play, went to a live children's music concert and tonight we listened to music and ate a nice dinner on the patio.

So all in all it has been a good move and long term it is helping us to tackle some things that we might have avoided with the distraction of tv. Even with tragic events like the tsunami in Japan, we avoid the temptation of becoming obsessed with news and watching tragedy repeatedly. We still keep a brief eye on the news through the internet, but it helps you keep things in perspective and focus your energy toward prayer and good wishes when bad news occurs.

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