We moved and I got terribly sick. Worst head cold and chest cold of the last decade hands down. It was not fun. I'm truly not recovered entirely yet, but I'm much, much better!
We moved into a house so outdated we cannot plug in our TV. Most TVs have a three prong plug. That means it is 'grounded'. You plug it into an outlet in your wall that has three holes. (I'm so brilliant, aren't I??)
That is a grounded outlet.
This house only has four of those. One in our bathroom. One in the kids bathroom, and one on each side of the kitchen sink. Since the bathrooms aren't really set up for TV watching, and I'm not crazy about it happening in the kitchen - we don't have a television set up. But wait, it's not exactly 1955 - these days you can't just plug in a TV. You have to have cable or satellite or something. And.... you guessed it... this house doesn't have that set up either. So even if you did want to watch Dancing with the Stars while doing your dishes, it still ain't happenin' people. :)
You know what?? We really haven't missed it.
Once, one afternoon my 7 year old son whined about not having it. That is it. That is the only complaint we've had about not watching television in almost three weeks. I have a toddler who is turning 2 this month, and 4, 5, and 7 yr olds. No once have they asked for Barney or Sesame Street, or Wipe Out or Cyber Chase.
Even me and Patrick are doing better than expected. I don't miss Inside Edition or 20/20 or ....well... I haven't really thought about Castle until now. Let me at least put it that way as I sigh a moment......
Patrick though- really - he is somewhat addicted to the screen. Both for movies and TV. But he has been amazing! He could really care less. I'm very impressed. In our 'old' life he would have been climbing the walls by now! haha
So what is this 'new' life we are living?? Well, for starters we have a very outdated old house on 6.4 acres. Right across the street are two ponds. One is a neighbors that he said we could come over to at anytime and fish in. The other one is a more private residence only "preservation" type pond. We see the sun bouncing off the water in the early morning and dusk. We have a wood pecker, an owl, we hear ducks and geese, and many amazing birds I'm not sure I've heard before. We have a barn. and thanks to my amazing husband, an almost fenced garden that is bigger than the last backyard we had. If it was any larger we'd be farmers - that's what Patrick said. :)
Here are a couple pics of our new old homestead:
Our deck and fire pit ~
