{"id":2035,"date":"2013-12-30T23:51:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T04:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oshetablogs.wordpress.com\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2013-12-30T23:51:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T04:51:16","slug":"what-im-into-december-2013-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/shalominthecity\/2013\/12\/what-im-into-december-2013-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"What I'm Into: December 2013 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Today I\u2019m joining Leigh Kramer\u2019s \u201cWhat I\u2019m Into\u201d<\/a> link. $\"What\"$ <\/a> My husband came in an hour ago and said, \u201cBabers, I\u2019m on with the kids; go write at Starbucks for while\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 I really, really love that man. It\u2019s been cra-zy in my house this break, it\u2019s probably always this loud and unsettling when my three kids are home for holiday break.\u00a0 By day seven, they\u2019re bashing into each other in our tiny apartment with nothing but time and opportunity to run amuck.\u00a0 I should be used to it, but today, I felt bone weary and over it!\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard \u201cMOOOOOOM\u201d from angry children ad nausem, they were racing each other across the hardwood floors in their new scooters, and my son was glued to his new inactivated iPhone (he\u2019s using\u00a0 it as an iPod until he\u2019s earned a phone line). Speaking of Christmas gifts, this month I was totally into Craigslist for my Christmas shopping.\u00a0 I bought my daughter the American Girl doll she wanted for $80:<\/p>\n

and a DS for $40 (that he dropped and broke the hinge on the day after Christmas. At least I was only out $40, not the hundreds a new system would have cost). I\u2019m into texting my son. Today I reminded him to take out the trash via text and get this\u2026it was out within 10 minutes.\u00a0 Amazing. Here\u2019s proof of my son\u2019s budding iPhone addiction when he thought I lost his phone.\u00a0 We take it from him at bedtime and the night before last , I forgot where I put it before I went to bed. When he asked for it yesterday morning, for a moment, I thought I lost his phone: $\"IMG_4102\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

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To offset the loud kiddos, I\u2019ve been listening to good music on Spotify. Lately I\u2019m into the The Brilliance<\/a>.\u00a0 Everything I\u2019ve listened to has been amazing and so inspiring.\u00a0 I tweeted this about their advent album. $\"tweet\"$ <\/a> So good\u2026so good. I\u2019m listening to Cavetime: A Worship Album<\/a> now.\u00a0 Even though it\u2019s based on a book \u201cfor men\u201d I\u2019m enjoying it, and it\u2019s helping understand my husband\u2019s struggles a bit. Plus, the album is beautifully written. Speaking of Gungor (btw, The Brilliance is collective of Michael Gungor and his brother, David) I read \u201c The Crowd, the Critic, and the Muse<\/a>\u201d and loved it. Well, more accurately, I listened to the audiobook and if there\u2019s ever a book that should be listened to over read, it\u2019s that one.\u00a0 Michael Gungor narrates it, so you hear his true intent behind ever word. As a musician, he plays with sound and creates a stories with melodies\u2014this is evident in the audiobook. Music segue ways from one chapter to another, a fake girl band sings absolutely horrible lyrics to illustrate the superficiality of some of the most popular top 40 songs, and there\u2019s a superhero theme for \u201cSuper Gungor\u201d (you have to listen to the book to get that).\u00a0 It was one of the best uses of my Audible credits.<\/p>\n

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