our grand experiment

I’ll admit it, I’m a couch potato and I LOVE my big screen TV. But today our family went TV-FREE. The reaons are complicated but it mostly boiled down to having two smart 12-year-old girls with very active lives in and out of school but who are not living up to their grade potential. The only way I could think of to add quality time to our days and reduce distractions was to ditch the TVs and severely limit computer time. I posed it to the kids as an either /or argument: we need to make changes that will help us do better in school, you can either drop your dance activities or we drop the TV. The kids chose to drop the TV. Ironically, I think I may be the one who gains the most from this experiment because I will no longer have a reason to plop on the couch with a beer for a few hours every night. I’m looking forward to losing weight and getting my blog whipped into shape. Who knows how much I can accomplish with a couple extra hours every night but I’ll keep posting about it.