It’s been going a lot better, when I go back and compare to the time that Gabri?l still wore cute little baby clothes. But that doesn’t mean everything is easy now. At times I forget absolutely everything I have learned and we are back to zero. I wanted to know how it is now, if I compare yesterday to today. So I decided to go about it in a real professional manner.
I’m scholarly like that. I know, I just used the word scholar and that makes me sophisticated and the fact that I just used the word sophisticated makes me a lady and the fact that I am a lady will make my husband howl with laughter. And my mom. And my dad. And I’m going to stop that list here or this post would get too long.
Here we go with the scholarly study. For this study I analysed the results that the activity I chose had on my mood and my behavior.
My brain is foggy because I haven’t slept all that great in a big long while since… I am a mom. I am tired and I don’t want to think. Therefore, I want to put on Gilmore Girls or Pride and Prejudice or What a Girl Wants.
But because I am doing this scholarly study… instead, I listen to The Chronicles of Narnia. It’s not quite as boring as the bible, my reasoning tells me at that moment, but not as empty as my other options.
Occasion number 2: I do the laundry and watch Gilmore Girls. Caleb tries to eat the computer and makes Ikea food again.
I am annoyed that Caleb talks because I NEED TO KNOW WHAT LORELAI SAID!
Occasion number 3: I listen to the ESV bible reading while making breakfast. Nobody is up yet. I get through the first chapters?when little people come down, making unearthly noises with their Duplo spaceships. I shut it off. (The ESV reading, not the spaceships. One cannot, so it would seem, shut down spaceships.)
I take a bath and do not watch Gilmore Girls or Lark Rise to Candleford, but listen to Nancy Leigh Demoss, and Amanda Cook.
Results:
My finding are that although I don’t turn into an evil witch when I watch movies, it doesn’t help me. It’s empty filling of my day. Depending on the movie, it is harmless but not helpful. ?Also, when it comes to watching a single episode… well, when does it end with just one episode?
To make all of the menial tasks a little less boring it is tempting to put on background noise, movies, to fill time and quiet. Even when I am not listening or watching closely, it is still a lot of emptiness that is filling my brain.
When I listen to inspirational music, bible readings, podcasts, audio-books…I learn new things, hear old things I needed to be reminded of, am inspired to look for God.
And yet I do not think it is wrong to watch a movie sometimes. Sometimes it’s just fun, when you can watch a movie with your husband, or girlfriends, and it’s time spent together. One does not always need to talk about spiritual things, and say important and smart things.
Like that time I watched Cinderella with my husband, and a week later with my mom and sisters, and a week after that with my friend.?
I might have watched it a few times by myself. With Caleb. Because watching Cinderella with your 6 month old is really bonding, I tell you. He was all ‘I wanna eat the computer’ and I was all ‘get away from the computer’ and we had this lovely?loving interaction in which I squished him. Because he was eating the computer in such a bewitchingly cute way.
I know. So weird.
Hey omyli of omily,…
Even reageren,.. Ik kwam u tegen op internet onder de naam brignola…. Ik was bezig om een vacature te zoeken voor een jongeman en kwam de naam brignola tegen in tholen… Deze mensen handelen in Italiaanse verf…. En de jongeman die ik ken spreekt goed spaans en italiaans en zodoende Wilde ik deze mensen met elkaar in contact brengen… Mischien zit er een baantje in voor hem of job!… Wat een leuke mooie opbouwende site heb je…. Ik denk dat ik vroeger ook wel es zo de dingen ervoer naomi… Keep going keep the faith all together you and your family…. Mischien kom ik nog wel eens pie pen op je site…. Voor bemoediging!ik ga nu naar een maaltijd voor ouderen en alleengaanden in de gemeente..!…. Dirk kookt en nog wat andere br en zr s ook… T is wel gezellige nu met de regen… Het was een erg mooie herfsttijd he?gaat het Verder goed met jullie en de kinderen?? Allemaal groeifases he?wel voor nu: Groetjes en zegen,…petra
This made me laugh so much — quietly, because there’s a baby sleeping in the room above me and neither of us would find it funny if she woke up now — and it inspires me to seek out and do “the better thing” in my day. 🙂 Love your sense of humor.