Every year, we spend Thanksgiving week at the beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Its too cold to get in the water, but it is beautiful and empty and a perfect time to go to the beach. We eat Thanksgiving dinner each year at Bubba's Seafood Shack, then we shop all Friday at the mall and Wal-Mart. It is the best shopping experience I have all year. Let me tell you, Wal-Mart at the beach is empty the day after Thanksgiving, which is reason enough to go just to find an empty Wal-Mart to enjoy.

But this year, I wont be coming back here.... my blog is going dark.


For some time now, I have ignored the fact that my home computer is dying. Even I could no longer deny the truth when I turned it off the other night and sparks flew from the cord. Yes, sparks...... as in... electrical fire sparks. The computer is dead, and I don't want to buy another one right now.


I know... I know... they are on sale at the empty Wal-Mart the day after Christmas and are pretty affordable.... but I still want to spend money elsewhere right now (did I mention the shower in master bath must be replaced and buying a nice rug for all 4 doors is not cheap, and, after 11 months, I am starting to buy curtains for the whole house... which might require a second mortgage...)


BUT... the biggest reason of all....


I am in the middle of doing a bible study, The Frazzled Female, by Cindi Wood (which I highly recommend) and if I could sum the study up in a nutshell, I would say: God gives us each a limited amount of time, energy and sanity and then allows us to choose how we spend that limited, time, energy and sanity. It is up to us to choose wisely. Maybe there are wiser things for me to do with my time than to spend so much of it on the computer......


I always thought of the blog as my modern day front porch. You know, in the old days, our grannies might sit on the front porch and visit with the neighbors, now today, instead of sitting on the porch, we visit blogs.... I realize I have been spending too much time on the front porch and need to get up and go back in the house now... and turn my attention elsewhere.


But I have enjoyed spending so much time on the porch.... I mean computer....making friends.... visiting others... and I will still be visiting and emailing you occasionally....

and maybe I will update occasionally....maybe....

EDITTED TO ADD:... your comments are so sweet....perhaps we should just call this a break.... maybe at the first of the year, after the busy holiday season, after some curtains are up, and I feel less rushed, more in control of all the things God is calling me to... I will have enough time and energy (and sanity) to include a little time on the porch in my routine again...