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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 3 - Advanced)
Topic: Digital Detox (04/24/14)
I love those days when there is time, time to sit and stare into my babies eyes, and notice that one little curl in her fuzzy hair, the way her eyebrows dance when she sees something new, the way she breast feeds upside down and how her mouth dives into the target, like a sucking magnet, when I have time to thaw the mango and pop tiny squares in her mouth cause I don’t have to be somewhere in ten minutes.
I love those days when we can stand at the sink and watch the water from the tap trickle slowly into that narrow necked bottle, that doesn’t cope with the tap on flat out, and cook chicken soup from scratch while we listen to an audio book.
How does it get this way? You may think I’m not a terribly busy person if this is what my day looks like, but I am. I work part time for our church, write for various people and I’m a mummy.
I have been reading Rachel Macy Stafford’s new book, Hands Free Mama, about putting distractions like your phone and the internet for set periods of time a day and focusing on precious moments that matter. Moments that once they are gone, are gone forever and the trees out the window and the grass never quite look the same way again.
I used to have my internet on all the time and regularly check it. For what I’m not sure, because I’ve been about three weeks now with not having an internet connection in our house and it has been wonderful. I went over the downloads big time and the company cut it off and haven’t bothered to turn it back on again, maybe because we haven’t paid the bill yet. So I’m using the internet in little snippets of time and only doing what’s really important, when I can go where I can get a connection.
I began noticing precious moments of time for what they were when a little two year old in our church was killed in a house fire. My baby was only 6 weeks old and I began to hold her more tightly and kiss her more often. I cherished the special moments and I still do, but perhaps the digital detox had to forced by the cutting of our internet connection so I could begin to enjoy the moments without distraction.
I encourage you to read Hands Free Mama regardless of your age or gender, it’s a very timely reminder of what is really important in life in this tech savvy age when the phone and computer sing along in an irritating harmony of facebook, e-mail and text dings and dongs.
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Judith Gayle Smith-Owens Vitouswykegardinerclark
05/03/14
Sweet charming story. Makes me want to come and cuddle both you and your baby.

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Delightful ...
C D Swanson 
05/03/14
Awww. Sweet, and touching entry with a powerfully enriching message.

God bless~
Francie Snell 
05/04/14
So blessed you are for learning this valuable lesson while your baby is so young. Hopefully, other young mothers will learn from you. Thank you for sharing.