Starting Tomorrow - Do Not Disturb Tuesday

Yesterday I had a conversation with Amber that went something like this:

Am:  I gotta start getting more life outta my days.

Me:  I know what you mean.

Am:  The saying it's easy, I'm really struggling with the doing.
I think I need to give up this computer.

Me:  :-(  I know.  Me too.

Am:  I don't think I get as much accomplished as I could.

Me:  Yes.  I think I'm going to have to stay away to get things
done and use this for pleasure.

Both Amber and I have lost focus. (Did we ever have it?) We never wanted the internet to become the center and focus of our worlds. We both have families and hubbies and friends in the real world. As important as our friendships are online, they shouldn't be more important than those we live with. What I mean to say is, I don't talk to some of my closest IRL friends everyday and yet I have started to think that if I don't talk to my online friends everyday I am deprived.

My dh and I were also talking yesterday about how my housework suffers BECAUSE of the internet. I get so focused on what is "out there" that I forget about what is RIGHT here. My kids have been telling me, "all you ever do is sit at your computer". ouch! I need to listen to that! And now that we are getting back into our homeschool / fall routine my focus does need to be here.

And so to quote Amber:

That being said we came up with Do Not Disturb Tuesday. A day to set the online world aside and focus on the wonderful blessings life has afforded us. Starting tomorrow and hopefully for many Tuesdays to come LaDonna and myself will turn off our computers until Wednesdays. If we have a blog post to go out it will be written another day and scheduled for Tuesday or it can just wait all together. I think that it goes without being said actions speak louder then words and I don't want people to look at my actions and think wow she cared more about the d*mn internet then her family or her home or...ya get the picture.

AMEN, friend!!!

Please consider joining us on Tuesdays and enjoy your families, friends and your real life. Then on Wednesday, come and tell us about it. Do Not Disturb Tuesday is open to anyone who comes in contact with Come Here Little Bug or Just Our Thoughts.

Our rules are simple:

• respect the concept of Do Not Disturb Tuesday.
  
• stay away from the internet in any form - including but not limited to your phone, twitter, email, instant messengers (except if you HAVE TO for your job).
• devote Tuesdays to the other parts of your life.
• if you use our button, link to one or both of us.
• if you're a blogger, consider making a post on Wednesday's updating everyone on what you did on Tuesday.
• comments will be open to all bloggers and non-bloggers alike.
• we will attempt to put up a linky every Wednesday.

And in the words of Bob the Builder, "Can we do it? Yes, WE CAN!" And my family will thank me.

Striving to learn and live God's purposes,

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