Micky and I don’t get enough time together. We both work too much, put a lot of time into the kids, and generally find ourselves too exhausted to do much more. We need to figure out how to get better at it, but there’s an epic impediment that I think needs to get jumped – the constant presence of the Internet.<\/p>\n
There’s always an email to check; there’s always a Facebook update to look at; there’s always a level of a game to play.<\/p>\n
And that’s a problem.<\/p>\n
So I’ve declared a few moments of the day Internet free zones. Driving to work, and driving home from work. During the bed time ritual with the kids. And from bedtime for the kids through dinner.<\/p>\n
We’re not great at it. But if we can get better at it, it gives us about an hour a day where there can be absolutely no Internet, and I think that that’s going to be amazing.<\/p>\n
I’ll let you know \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Micky and I don’t get enough time together. We both work too much, put a lot of time into the kids, and generally find ourselves too exhausted to do much more. We need to figure out how to get better at it, but there’s an epic impediment that I think needs to get jumped – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQyAq-f2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":886,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2014\/02\/07\/were-in\/","url_meta":{"origin":932,"position":0},"title":"We're in!","date":"February 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Today we moved into the house... finally :-) The day started whisking the kids off to school, and fitting in a call with