A lot has gone on this week. This is just a collection of thoughts from throughout the week.
On Sunday, we worked in the nursery at church. There are two little girls and one baby boy. The little girls love reading books -- and thankfully, Justin also loves reading books! He prefers the books with a good ratio of picture to text. Too many books that are about Bible stories, etc., have way too many words per page for two and three year olds to listen to, so he steers the girls towards easy books like Dr. Seuss and the Tom and Pippo books. The baby boy has learned to sit up and he scoots around on his bottom if there's something he wants to get to. I mostly watch him and Justin mostly watches the girls. :)
Remember this? Well, all this stuff is now out of our room and into Arane's room. I moved a few empty crates down from the attic and put all of our movies and video games there. We have a surprising number of movies and games! It's really nice to have them in our room and not in Arane's room... much easier to put things away when you don't even have to go in the next room.
I know a lot of people say that you shouldn't have a TV in your bedroom, but we haven't found that to be the case. (Granted, we can't actually watch TV on our TV. But we do watch it on our laptop, which lives on my nightstand table, and we haven't noticed any ill effects from that...) We like to watch movies together, and sometimes Justin will play video games in there while I do something on the computer. It's spending time physically together while doing separate things. :)
So anyway, that corner of the room looks a lot better now. I'm hoping to hang up pictures soon, and then finally post some decent pictures of our bedroom, which is pretty darn cute if I do say so myself.
We've been fighting a battle against cat fur lately. This is the first year that we've had two indoor cats, and while I really like them both on a personal level, I wish they didn't shed so much! The little one, Seamus, has light, long fur that literally floats in midair and then it eventually settles into drifts. It's like a dust bunny except made out of cat fur. Yucky... so we've been vacuuming and sweeping and dusting like there's no tomorrow to keep it under control.
In other news, we're getting a new roof put on the house. They've been here for a week and a half and I'm pretty sure they just started on the shingles this morning. It's an asbestos roof so they have to overlay that with something and then overlay that with shingles. It takes a while. I'm ready for them to be done because I'm kind of tired of having workmen climbing all over our house every day. :) They're also leaving a lot of debris in the yard so we haven't been able to get it mown in a few weeks.
The other thing that's been on my mind is a Christian perspective on entertainment. We take a fairly liberal stance compared to a lot of our Christian friends... though still conservative compared to a lot of nonChristians. Apparently there's a controversy about The Hunger Games books and movie because it has a kind of violent premise that includes children trying to kill each other. People think that the whole book/movie should be condemned just because of that.
But here's the problem -- you can't categorically say that something is 100% wrong if it isn't clearly stated in the Bible... you should apply biblical principles and take into account your own weakness. Of course people killing other people is wrong. There's nothing "wronger" about it just because it's kids killing kids. I'm pretty sure we all know that you're not supposed to support people killing each other, and watching a movie where that happens isn't going to change our minds. I haven't read the books, but in the movie, it was very clear whose actions were good and whose actions were bad. It was a little simplistic, actually, though I get that it was aimed at a younger audience.
Anyway, that's what's been going on here lately. :) Nothing too exciting!
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