Trying something different

Some of my favorite memories as a child was when we lost electricity during a snow storm. We would light my great grandmother's old oil lamps and some candles. My mother would take out a puzzle and we would sit around the table doing a puzzle by the light of the oil lamp. Time seemed to slow down and everything was so quiet. So this week my girls and I are going to try something different. On Thursday we are not going to have any t.v., computer, telephone, or even lights on. The girls will do homework either by candle light or lamp light. We will have dinner by candle light and we will spend the evening reading or playing board games. I am so excited that I feel like I'm getting ready for a mini vacation. And I am so happy that my girls agreed to try it, especially my teenage daughter...ok, well maybe I had to bribe her just a little bit :)

With the days passing so quickly, there are times when you just need to get back to the basics. I'll let you know how it goes!

Letters To God

I was watching a t.v. show early this morning. One I hadn't seen before. It was called Letters To God.

The host brings children into the studio to read the letters they have written to God voicing their questions, hopes, dreams, and concerns. Today they were talking about being rich and being poor. It's so interesting to see that children have some of the same concerns that we do. It was wonderful to listen to their thoughts and ideas but one little boy's response was simply wonderful. They were talking about how some people have so much and then some have so little. His response to this was... "God created everything...then people made it uneven."

Wow...how true