Here is an interesting perspective on the time-consuming dangers of the internet. It can suck you in, can't it? I spend too much time on line: I know that. I could accomplish much more if I cut back even a little.

Paradise Lost

In the end, it was not the evil things on the Internet, not even the arguments and negativity, but rather the good things that bogged me down. So many, many good things. Pictures of decorated houses, libraries, recipes, book suggestions (this alone has been enough to almost drown me), crafts, knitting, aprons, sewing, frugality, weather, poetry, audio files, friends, homeschooling suggestions, music and the ideas, the wonderful, wonderful ideas.

Almost all of my successes in life have come because I do less than other people not more. I realized this the other day. I am not one of those whirling women impressing the luncheon guests. If I have less of a garden and less of a house and less curricula, fewer hobbies, fewer errands, smaller expectations I accomplish more. My productivity goes up as my distractions go down. Maybe I shouldn’t admit this but my favorite books are English spinster schoolmarm books where the old maid comes home fixes herself an omelet and a cup of tea and reads. It is just a tiny glimpse of a tiny world and it is comforting to me. Please don’t take that to mean that I don’t love or want my children. I would have been perfectly happy with 9 more children. Honest. But what I have to remember is that I chose the children. That decision determined many other life choices for me. I have already planted the flag.

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Oh my! I remember the days of coming home, making scrambled eggs and just reading a book. Correction, reading a book in the bathtub! Beautiful, beautiful days! And I had no other demands!

Thanks for sharing that! It also reminded me that these crazy days of little kids in my life aren't forever either. And I need to remember that too!

I have often thought of this... that was good, thank you.

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