Enough is Enough

Over 2.5 billion text messages are sent each day in the USA
Over 75 million twitter accounts
Over 112.8 million blog accounts
Over 500 million face-book accounts
Over 861 million email accounts

Hummm...let me think...

• the last time I got a phone call and it WASN'T a solicitor,my husband or parents?
• the last time I was asked to go or do something and it wasn't through email?
• the last time I was invited on an "outing" and it wasn't a text?
• the last time I found out something somewhat important and it wasn't on a blog?

Makes me sad really...I grew up without ALL of these "so called" luxuries...I lived. I actually had friends, a social life, a job. Because of it I believe I was taught manners, respect, good ethics, hard work, and responsibility among other things. I feel as though we are living in a society where individuals run off machines...one bigger than the next...unable to function without their electronic vices, oh sorry, I mean DE-vices. What is that...what has happened...my 5 year old is wanting an itouch...No!!! What he should be asking for is a soccer ball, or a Nerf Gun...If keeping up with the Jones means loosing my boys to this nasty, disgusting, self-centered world we live in...than NO THANKS...I'd rather explain over and over again how OUR side of the fence, though it may not look like it now, is WAY greener!! We may not have the fanciest of cars, the newest of toys, the coolest of clothes, but my boys WILL know how to use a phone, write a letter, look at someone in the eye, shake a hand and mean it, iron a shirt, and make a dinner. They never let me get a car door, a door of any kind for that matter, they always tell me how "pretty" I look, even if I don't. They are very complementary of my shoes, and they are the first to get up and help clean off any dinner table. They are fluent in "Please and Thank You" and most importantly to me...they still give me a hug and kiss each morning before they leave and each night before bed. I have no doubt that a text can't teach that...

SO...for now...my blog is for me...a private place to come and journal about what I love most...

• my loves...My MEN
• my sad days and my joyous occasions
• the good the bad and the ugly

I will not stop ...I just think it's time to stop the "maddness" maybe not forever...but for now.

All My Love,