Without the internet…

Every once in awhile I sit here and thing of all the things I could manage to get done in a day if I wasn’t checking my email, obsessing about facebook or chatting with the ladies at my favorite message board. Sometimes I see posts from other bloggers (you know, ones that update their blogs more than once a year…) and see the cool projects they manage to get done in a day’s time. The awesome things they accomplish with their children. The cool crafts and sewing projects… you know, LIVING life, not just typing about it…

I think of all the time I spend parked in front of this machine… and think of what I’ve missed out on. I know I’ve missed my kiddos playing quietly together. That would at the end of the day be much more rewarding to watch than 3 youtube videos and much more entertaining than a stupid facebook quiz.

Then I think of all the things I have learned from this chair… I never would have had a homebirth or used cloth diapers. Never would have learned to cook real, healthy, from scratch food. Never would have had such an awesome supportive group of women rally around me when times were tough….

Some days, I just want to rip this thing out of the wall and never look back. Others I have to fight with myself just to get up and make breakfast rather than read one more thing.

I need to think on this more – but I need to figure out how to get the internet to become more of a resource and less of a time suck.