I guess it's me who left. So sorry.
Well, life resumed pretty quickly after the black hole that was December. We're back to school, back to Classical Conversations, back to the Dunham version of normal.
Except for this one tiny thing: the blog.
A friend asked me if I was going to post my book list for 2009 and I didn't have the heart to tell her that my reading list for last year looks like this:
Facebook by Everybody
Twitter by Everybody Else
Yep. I think aside from books I read to the girls (and I do still read to them for school, but they have taken over the nighttime portion of their reading these days - I keep thinking I want to start reading to them at bedtime again. I need to do that), I read one or two books all year.
All. Year.
It could have been more, but I don't know. So to make up for that, I've been reading again this year. And I know myself well enough to know I need some easy stuff to remind myself that yes, I do indeed know how to read. I've been overdosing on fiction and liking it. I'm on my third book so far which is nothing for most of the true book gobblers out there, but for someone going through a Facebook/Twitter-as-literature detox, three works of fiction in three weeks isn't too shabby.
I've been saying no to good things. I've been listening a teensy bit more to what the needs are at home.
I'm a long way from perfection. I know. I just shocked every single one of you. But I'm not giving up and that's the key for me.
Someday I will write about why we're planning to put the girls in school in 7th grade. Someday I will write about how we've restarted our weekly Sabbath meals and 24 hour technology fasts (which have contributed to the increased reading...funny how that works). Someday I will finish my series of posts on our church experiences.
But for now I'm going to sign off and go tidy up something because that's what the need is.
Thanks for hanging in here with me even when it's quiet. Truly, you are a friend to the introvert. Even the ones on the web.
