Breaking Bad Habits

Hi, remember me?

It's been awhile and a lot has happened (moving, both Mark and I starting new jobs, graduating, vacation, etc.)...and we will blog about that later. For now, I will tell you about our bad habit that we are working on breaking, and I though posting it would be a good way to have accountability (from allllllll of our blog readers ;)).

So when I lived in Detroit by myself for school during the week, I would turn on the tv the moment I walked in the door and leave it on until after I fell asleep. We only got like three channels, so there was never anything good on, but I just liked having the noise (to cover the nosies of other people that would scare me). Since I have moved back home with my husband, we have gotten into this habit also. We always have the tv on, and to fall asleep each night we turn it on. We would read during the day, and chat and things, but then at night we would just watch tv. The other day we were moving my lovely sister into her apartment and she asked if she could buy our big, huge tv that his grandpa handed down to us when he moved. Now, mind you Mark has not been in the same city as this tv in two years, but did not want to sell it. He wanted us to have a nice tv. Which obviously is fine (and for the rest of this blog I'll be talking about personal conviction for us). But, we have specific goals that we are striving for (mostly to be Christ like to glorify God), and laying in bed every night rotting our brains with our tv was not doing that. When I think about telling our kids about our lives and being accountable to God for our time, I just don't think they will be impressed with a recap of the Bachlorette and Say Yes to the Dress.  We have financial goals which were benefited by selling the tv, and we were determined to break the tv habit - so it made perfect sense. And --  did I mention the tv is like 9847 pounds? and its really hard to move, so getting it off our hands was a plus.

On vacation we did not have a tv, so that kick started our no tv. Last night we read, and chatted and then turned off the lights and it was hard. I am not going to lie. I layed there and listened to Mark softly sleep and wanted to turn the tv on soooo bad. So now, we are officially tv-at-night free. Please ask us how this is going, and fill us in on anything exciting that happens on television.

Oh yeah, I am not giving up the Bachlorette...yet.

Love,
Brittany