Believe it or not, I am posting today and not waiting for another six months to pass before updating my blog! We made a momentous decision this week and decided not to re-up our cable contract. I've always thought paying for TV was lame, but this week we decided that we have much better things to do with $50.00 every month. I am looking forward to doing more useful things with my time. Things like yoga, reading, jogging, knitting, playing strip poker and blogging. I never realized how much time I was wasting in front of the TV. It's just so easy to crash on the sofa after getting the kids down. Now, I don't have a reason to go sit there anymore. I don't imagine that it's going to be too much of an adjustment, considering that I grew up without at TV. My friends used to call me "raised by wolves." I guess since the wolves didn't to too bad a job on me, they can come and raise my kids, too.
On Presidents' Day we were thrilled to have a whole day with our Daddy home. That's been a rarity lately. We decided to go for a hike in the "mountains" just South of our house. It's not quite spring out here, so the desert doesn't look as good now as it will in a couple of weeks. You can see from the pictures that it's just starting to turn green. In a few weeks, it will be really beautiful for a couple of days (and then it will get hot and the landscape will get fried and resume it's usual hellish appearance). Alex and Ryan were troopers and made it all the way to the top of the Goldmine mountain trail. Alex, as usual, beat me there!
Alex came home with an essay that he had written in school that I wanted to record here.
Alex came home with an essay that he had written in school that I wanted to record here.
What Makes Me Special
by Alex Felt
I am special because I mow lawns really well. I am super at the Wii. My cursive is awsome. I swim fast. I read as fast as lightning. I wash cars. I am a great scout. I got the Bobcat badge. I play chase with my sister. All of these things make me special.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is real and simple truth.
4 comments:
You did post! Yay! Thanks for letting me come and hang out with you today, Cheryl. Can't wait to get those knitting needles and see if I can actually figure out those diagrams... they were confusing me a bit today when I took a quick look, but maybe the actual process will be easier.
Looks like you blogged about the same thing I just blogged about! Our hike to the mountains! I am glad you had Josh home for a whole day! We had fun too, but we only got a few pics and our hike was only about 45 min. ;) About what our group could handle.
You are too brave to get rid of cable. And I am too jealous! I always talk about that but it would never happen in our house. Maybe I should find a way to make my husband gone more and then he would have less say in the TV situation. ;)
I love Alex's poem. I love that he mows lawns and plays with his baby sister. He sure has a cute potty dance for her. :o)
p.s. please read my blog. :O)
Kudos to you for blogging and for disconnecting from the tube! I've got to start the blogging thing again, too! We've been contemplating ditching the cable thing. The problem is that we've got a bundle with phone and internet so we've got to decide what to do with those two things before moving forward. I spent 45 minutes a couple of weeks ago chatting with Qwest online but I haven't gotten around to calling our current company to find out the nitty-gritty with them...so hopefully we will be going the ranks of the cable-less although I might have to wait until the Olympics are over!
Strip Poker hu! Ha ha is that what you guys do now for family night... I can just imagine the Bishops family enjoying a night of strip poker!!
Aw...your kids are getting so big!! I love it! I miss the hot Arizona sun :( I loved your description of what you'll be doing sans TV.. :D OH, I've been meaning to tell you, I made your atomic popcorn while my mom was here...ok we had to make it twice because Chris and I ate the whole thing before my mom had any! It's so good!
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