Hello Blogging friends...
I have been a little MIA because I'm working on another book. My first Novel. Yikes. I'm even going to try and get an agent so I cleared out a big box in my room for many rejection letters, but I hope to find someone who would like to take me on.
I just feel better when I am writing. I am nicer to my husband, nicer to my kids, and more fun to be around when I am using my God given brain to do something I love. Maybe that college education my parents paid for isn't going to complete waste as I sit home, raise my babies and watch reruns of Dora and Olivia.
All my free time, 30 minutes here, an hour there, is going into writing. It is a humorous book (imagine that) about a woman who has to deal with some very hard things in her life and she finds healing in laughter. We will see where the story goes!
School is going great for Maddy and for Luke. Maddy is busy making friends and being sassy. Luke, out of the shadow of his sister, is flourishing as well.
Does anyone else out there have a love/hate relationship with the television? I mean, I love the TV, but I adhere to the guidelines of two hours max screen time rule for my kids given by the LORD GOD HIMSELF or the American Association of Pediatrics. I walk around when the television is off and pace thinking something is missing in my life. I let my kids watch a show in the morning, one in the afternoon, and one in the evening. So I may get ready, make dinner, read a book. And I don't let them watch any more than that. Hot husband calls me the screen time Nazi, but I don't care. Then I see on facebook from friends, "puttin on a Disney movie for the afternoon," And I want to ask, "is that in addition to the two hour screen time you already give or is that your kid's only screen time for the whole day?" I don't ask because I don't want to sound crazy...good luck...right? But I REALLY want to. Am I the only one who even cares about the screen time rule? I am totally LAME!
After my kids go to bed at night you wanna know what I do? I watch hours of television like The X-Factor or Desperate Housewives (don't judge me).
Then the next day it starts all over again. I stare longingly at the television and wonder to myself what Joy, Whoopi, Sherri, and Elizabeth are arguing about today. Yeah, that's right, I call The View cohosts by their first name. Bite it!
But this last week has been fabulous because my beautiful, smart, giving mother got me an ipad. My thrifty husband has been trying in vain to not give into the iworld we live in. My desperate pleas to buy an iphone has fallen on deaf ears until now. For writing her book, A Miracle on Southwest Boulevard, she got me an ipad....HOLLA!
So now I can sit outside, in the living room, on the toilet and have my ipad in front of me. Pop culture will not go on without me just because I have my television off. The American Association of Pediatrics doesn't have a screen time limit for thirty year old, blonde bombshells, with thunder thighs...does it?
Pimpin' ain't easy, but it's necessary, I'm chasin' hos like Tom chases Jerry!
Word!
-Katie
(Sent from my Ipad....not really, but I can say that now that I'm an Isnob!)
The only screen time limit might be on the pot...you wouldn't want a permanent ring. Congrats on the ipad!!
ReplyDeleteMy kids don't have a lot of time to watch tv because we are at sports, etc. But they do watch it. We don't have cable either :( just the good ol' basic channels and netflix. Colton doesn't like watching tv very much but ever-so-often just to get him off of me while I am cooking or pooping, I turn on Yo Gabba Gabba!!
ReplyDeleteand YAY about your book!!
ReplyDeleteTrevor watches 30minutes of Disney in the morning while we get ready, the Simpsons at dinner, and a movie at bed time (aka usually lately whatever Star Wars episode he has on his mind, Chipmunks Squeakel, Transformers 1, 2, or 3, Toy Story 1, 2, or 3, Cars, Happy Feet, the list goes on but those are his regulars right now - oh and can forget the latest additions: Thor and X-Men: First Class.) I think there is nothing wrong with screen time, although it probably affects sleep habits mostly. More than anything, we have notice that Trevor's comprehension and memory are AMAZING, and I really think it can be contributed to what he has watched (but huge credit goes to his curriculum at La Petite). The Disney cartoons really are pretty educational, and their repetition really does get things across. The really amazing thing is what he understands and remembers about all the movies...he has SUPER HUMAN memory I swear - hope that pays off in school later on! Congrats on your novel :-) It would be fun to write fun stuff :-D I live vicariously through you!
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