During our first few years of marriage, our life was c.r.a.z.y. The kind of crazy I'd never want to return to. We were young & managed, but seriously, we were running at 120% all.the.time. One huge perk to this was cutting TV out of our life. I know people say they're busy, but we were the kind of busy that was trying to jam pack 4 years of life into 2. Literally, there was hardly time to make sure we had clean socks let alone watch an episode of Lost.
Honestly, it was probably one of the best ways to start a marriage, because we learned our life was extremely happy without television. Over 4 years later, we've kept the TV off (except for a 30 minute episode of The Office 8 times a year. (I wish I could work as little as the actors on The Office work and still receive their salary!)
Cutting out television is a beautiful thing. Seriously. The average American watches 4 hours every day which means we get to enjoy 4 extra hours of "non-tv" time in our day, every single day.
How do we fill up those extra 4 hours every day?
Lately, it's been long family walks, family pillow fights (it's our little "baby/toddler's" favorite game these days), & lots of reading.
A few books we've been enjoying include:
If I could, I'd force everyone to read this book. It's a life changing type of book.
Here's another life changer. We're forcing our small group to read a chapter of this book next week and a few chapters from the first book next month.
This book is not what you're thinking, it's a leadership book. I read the first 1/2 of the book the other night. I'm having trouble putting this book down. I never grow tired of learning more about leadership & this book has been particularly applicable to my company.
I found this book on my sister's "donate" pile and I snatched it up & am so happy I did. It's another life changing type of a read.
It's crazy, but our little man is no longer a baby, but a toddler, so time to pull out the next monthly development book!
5 comments:
I miss the time after college when I couldnt afford cable- I got so much more done- yet at the same time, I would have a hard time giving it up now...I would say I certainly don't watch 4 hours a day (wow!) but now there's shows I feel compelled to watch. Luckily, I'm a big reader too :) Several of these look like ones I would want to read, for sure! Which was your favorite?
I definitely recommend Half the Sky-your library should have it. I think you'd really like the book. It addresses the different ways women are oppressed around the world, but also lists what others are doing about it, etc....people say it is one of the best books on this topic today.
I definitely know what you mean about being too busy for it! It's nice that you guys are getting the chance to slow down and you're not slumping into Couch Potato-dom like a lot of us. :] Have you read any good fiction lately?
we don't even have a tv! best decision we ever made:)
I was literally just talking with a guest about Half the Sky tonight and she told me I had to read it...I'm looking forward to it!
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