Lent

Yeah, you knew it was coming sooner or later, right? The whole Lent thing. Actually, this'll be a short post because I'm way tired, trying to cram all my computer use into one evening each week.

I'm trying to give up personal computing for Lent- not counting Sundays of course. It's a fairly interesting experiment. I decided to do it before I heard about Italian bishops asking folks to give up texting or other techie stuff... which is good or I probably wouldn't have chosen it. But that's another post.

Anyway, I chose "personal weekday computing" because it felt like I was wasting a LOT of time sitting at the screen. The clincher was the day Kade woke up from a nap on Nana's lap in the living room and see him look to the computer first to see if I'm around. Hmm. If a SEVEN MONTH OLD thinks I'm glued to the seat... yeah, it's time to re-evaluate.

Here's the thing though-- it's not as much useless stuff as I thought. Yes, there are the time sucking games and never-ending facebook posts... but there's also eggplant recipes, and how-to-sooth-infant-ear-pain, and checking in for flights, and googling directions to a new house, and... well, you get the idea. I'm actually encouraged that it wasn't as mindless as I thought.

So now the challenge is to figure out how to prioritize so I still get in the cleaning and walking and other good stuff. But that's for the Easter season. For now, I'm journaling in my head, trying to focus on relationships and God and not going crazy with the work schedule that juggles three programs in one weekend. Or spaces events so that I work every day, even if it's just 4 hours.

In babe news--- he'll turn "8 months" on St Patty's day, so we'll have some fun pics next time. He's also recovering fairly well from the ear infection, and has slept thru the night (mostly) the last two days. We had a rough day today, out of our house for 12 hours, though we did hang at Nana's and some friends' in the evening, so that was fairly relaxing. For us, anyway, I hope for him too!!

Finally, please pray for my friend Jess, whose Dad died recently, and her mom Carola. It kinda sucks to welcome a friend into the "had-dads-funeral" group... but sometimes the shared experience makes prayers easier. Thanks to all.