Discipline

So the title of this post has more to do with me than with my children... I realize that my whole idea of blogging was really to provide my kids a virtual scrapbook of their childhood as well as my and Roy's thoughts and feelings. A very intergral part of scrapbooking, whether it be virtual or real, is photographs. This is where the discipline comes in. Roy and I don't need discipline it TAKING pictures. The discipline is need in DOWNLOADING the pictures. So this is the second day of my new blog and I haven't picture one on here. I realize it's only my second night to post anything, but I really need to get in the habit of downloading the pictures that I've taken. So I have taken a pledge to use this holiday weekend as an opportunity to take LOTS of pictures as well as post them on my blog! Wow - what a novel idea.

Come to think of it, there are many areas of my life that need discipline. As I sit here and type this post, I am so tired that I don't think I can move anything but my fingers. I need to be better about going to bed sooner than I have been. I used to be a morning person. Even when I was a child I was always the first one awake. I was never that kid that slept past 8:00 am. As a teenager, I rarely slept past 10:00 am unless I had an "all nighter" slumber party or something. I always felt that if I slept past 10:00 half of the day was gone and I didn't like that feeeling. Well things have changed since I have had kids. One would think that with having children you would go to bed earlier instead of later. That used to be the case when my boys were infants because I wasn't running on a full tank of gas if you know what I mean. Getting up every two hours (Eli) really did a number on me for several months so I went to bed whenever I had the opportunity. Now that all of my kids are sleeping through the night I usually use the hours of 9:00 to 11:00 to "prowl" as my pastor's wife calls it. This is when I can unwind, fold laundry, catch up on my DVR'd episodes of Top Chef and The Next Food Network Star. Oh, ok I'll admit it now - and The Real Housewives of (Insert name of major city here). There I feel much better. Now where was I? Oh yeah prowling. Anywho, I revel in that time that I have the whole house to myself. Roy typically goes to bed around 9:00 or 9:30. He's a good example of self discipline. He goes to bed early so he can get up early and have his quiet time to study and read the scriptures before the kids get up. That's what I'm trying to do, but I lack the discipline! When my alram goes off at 5:30 I cringe. I have a hard time going to bed with dirty dishes in the sink and "things" out-of-place. Everything has to be "just so" or as close to "just so" as it can get. I am definitely a Martha. You know, the two sisters Mary and Martha. Jesus came over to their house and Mary sat at Jesus' feet while Martha flittered around the house trying to make everything "just so." Jesus didn't care what the house looked like. He wanted Martha to sit at his feet and listen to him. Although I can't literally sit at Jesus' feet today, I can sit at His feet by reading the word of God. I need to be a Mary and not a Martha. Some things are just more important than others and getting rest (even God rested) and studying the word of God should be the most important things on our "to do" lists.

So I'll try tonight (again) to go to bed earlier so I can get up earlier and have my quiet time. I'll keep you posted on how it's going!

Blessings,

Leslie