the heroic details

Since I am 20 days smartphone free, I thought I would post "A Day in My Life."   I used to enjoy doing these over 15 years ago on my old livejournal, and every once in awhile I just get the itch to do one again!  I thought it might be of benefit to post a day especially now,  without a smartphone.   Most people can't even imagine living without their phones these days.  That flat, pocket-sized computer glued to our hands has become an indispensable tool absolutely required for daily life in our modern world (or so we think.)  I would love to show you that that's not always true! Wednesday, February 9th, 2022. 5:15 - wake up. I wake early.  I was not always an early riser; it's something that I've trained myself to do over the last two years.  Different phases and stages of life require different things of us and right now waking up early before the kids and starting my day in quiet is just right. One of the first things I do in the morning is glance over my c

It has now been 6 months since I quit Facebook and 5 months since I quit Instagram.  The duration of time seems so little when I write it down, yet it really feels as though a long time has passed.  Abigail drinking a glass of chocolate milk. In the middle of March, we had a very spontaneous visit from a friend in Washington.  She was traveling through with her twelve children (no big deal) and they stopped to stay with us for a night.  We had 18 kids in the house for about 24 hours,  and it was so wonderful.   It was good to see an old friend, to reconnect and catch up, even if it was brief. Washington I still don't know how she did it, but she convinced  me  to drive to Washington  to visit her  by myself with all of my kids!  The drive with the kids was smooth and easy.  We arrived on Holy Thursday and  stayed with her for almost a week, during Easter-time.  My friend is such a lovely hostess that the whole trip was easy and enjoyable.  I felt at ease and relaxed with 18 kids