Monday, November 3, 2008

BE GONE FROM ME YOU STINKIN TV

My family is in for a rude awakening Wednesday. When they arrive home from school and work we will no longer have a television in our living room. It will be safe and sound in our lovely basement storage room. And they will be steaming mad.

Whatever. They will get over it.

The thing is. . .I love my family. I really do. And as you can tell from my last post my life is not what it should be. I might not be able to live in the country or have a bluegrass band, but WE CAN make delicious food while LISTENING to bluegrass, and there is no reason we cannot bust out a sweet beat on some homemade instruments.

I think the biggest problem that I can identify is we our not living intentionally and we are not living simply. We are simply not living at all as far as I'm concerned. We (meaning them) have been sucked dry of life by the TV MAN. Hours are lost. Hours that my husband and I could be spent enjoying our children or each other or OUR GOD. I can't remember the last time we prayed together or read together, and we call ourselves a Christian family. What is setting us apart?

So I can keep complaining, or I can do something about it. I'm choosing to do something about it. For 40 days (God accomplishes a lot in this amount of time) we will not have television as a part of our lives. We might have a Christmas movie marathon if I think we can handle it, but we'll see.

I am expecting wonderful things, and I am expecting some withdrawal symptoms. I'm just going the trust the Lord with it.

7 comments:

Jen said...

Stop the madness!! TWO blog posts in two days?! Ack!

I think it's a great idea! 40 days gives it a limit and then you can re-evaluate. TV isn't a time sucker for us but sitting on our butts reading sure is! I can't tell you how many evenings nothing gets done b/c Tim or I are reading. Can't get rid of book, huh?

And my word verification is "undess". Hmmm. . .

kkoois said...

for as much as my sister says you and i are the same person, we sure have a lot of differences...

glad to see you back at your blogging. hope we don't lose you to a yurt with no internet access.

Mommy Brain said...

Good luck! I don't see this being a very successful plan in our house...my husband would never get behind it...but if you two are working together than more power to you...Kim's friend Jana did it for a month...and she liked it...her husband...not so much. Keep us posted.

Victoria D. said...

You go, Girl! I love your plan. And your blogging. No deleting this time or else you are banned from the family.

Mommy Brain said...

So! How did it go??!?!?!?!

i am not said...

Hey - just figured out that you're back in black - yea!

We did the EXACT same thing for the month of September - tv in the crawl space, rearranged the furniture. It was WONDERFUL. I also gave up sugar for the month and my husband gave up alcohol for the month. I blogged about it for the whole month. And we did it for very similar reasons...

Was it difficult to get your husband on board?

word verification = ablogi - I think its a sign.

Victoria D. said...

Nice backdrop! It's so very Kari.

And what someone else said: Give us an update on how the family is handling the travesty you have wrought upon them.