Our life can feel very busy at times. There are many distractions around every corner. Text and email don’t have a closing time, and with cell phones having the ability to receive both, the world expects us to be accessible at anytime of day. Don’t get me wrong; I’m not saying the technology is bad.  I’m a geeky kind-a guy and love gadgets, and if someone tries to steal my iPhone they will be flogged, but if I’m not careful technology will take over my life.

I don’t want to be available twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, but if I’m not careful it could very easily happen. It’s just to easy get drawn into those smart shinny little handheld devices that connect me to the world. After all, that text or email that just came in give me a little look into what the person on the other is doing. And even though I really don’t care that the person sending the text slipped on the slimy top from the Spam can that fell off the counter while making their Spam and cheese sandwich for dinner, and then as they were crashing to the floor they flung their sandwich across the room smacking their cat in the face with it. It would be rude not to respond with at least a “LOL :)”. (If you don’t what what LOL is, then you probably don’t have the problem of technology-interruptish.)

To help control technology-interruptish in our house we have a couple of hours of technology free family time when everyone is home. We log off the computer and place our cell phones in a basket. Then we play games or, as seen in the photograph below, do word finds and crossword puzzles. The only exception using technology is when we watch a movie. I even got a little reprimanded last night from my daughters for making this photo.

I’m very thankful for family time.

Welcome to post number two of Thankful Thursday.

There are many thing for which we should be thankful and I hope that by doing these post it will allow you to start seeing some of them in your life. Remember to be thankful not matter where we are or what the situation. This week I’m thankful for the country I live in, the United States of America.

I know there are many places in the world that are awesome and I love to travel and see some of them. There are also places that are very strict and lack the freedom we have here in the USA.

And with tomorrow being Veterans Day, I would also like to thank all those who have serviced to keep America free.

If you have been reading my blog for any period of time, you may have noticed that I’m a man of very few words. But I’m going to change that starting today. I kinda borrowed the idea of Thankful Thursday from Jamie, and her thousand gifts posts she did on her blog.

I’m going to have a photograph each Thursday of something that I’m thankful for, and I’m also going to have the reasons why.

To start of Thankful Thursday is going to be my beautiful wife, after all she is the one that I got the inspiration from.

The reason:

I’m so blessed and thankful to have Jamie in my life. Jamie loves God and does her best to obey Him. Living the way God tells us to is not always the way the world thinks we should. Jamie’s example makes my love for her that much stronger.  She is also an awesome writer, I still don’t know how one person can have so many words. I’m such a horrible writer, her ability for writing really inspires me. Also being a loving, caring and thoughtful mom to our children takes a strength that many people may never understand. Just being able to keep our youngest focus while homeschooling takes a great deal of creativity on her part. There are so many little reason that I am thankful for Jamie and I can’t list then all, but I have at least two more. She is always there for me to bounce crazy ideas off of, like the idea to have a slide or fire pole from the second floor of the house down to the main floor (I’m still working on making this one work). And of course she is HOT!

Jamie you rock, and I love you!