I realize that it has been quite a while since I have blogged. Hmmmmm you might be thinking or aha! She gave up because it was a stupid idea anyway... In case you were concerned, the TV Dollar still holds currency in our house. The system is still going strong, and it's about to kill me.
I need zombie children! I am tired, and I am running out of ideas. Look, for those of you who don't know me, I am not a crafty person. I can't sit down with Sassy and Bubba and say, "today we are making collages out of pasta, q-tips, and dryer lint!". I am not a cook, so we don't make cookies or ants on a stick or even toast. I am creative (I better be, I am a stage director after all), and I can improvise. So we do a lot of stuff like "let's talk like cats and spin in a circle until we throw up!". I need a rest. Especially now that the school year has started in full force. My classes started on August 30 and I haven't had time to breath since.
I am proud of Hubbo and me, though. We have had a few slip ups here and there in the past two weeks (like the allotted 30 minutes for Bubba somehow got stretched to 45) but we have kept it going. We still have the TV off all morning, and the kids watch no more than one hour a day. THIS IS HUGE FOR US! Bubba is used to the routine, and he does not put up much of a fight. Sassy still asks for "Clippord" and "Max and Rudy" BUT she does not throw a tantrum when she is told no.
I don't watch TV much at all anymore, and I don't miss it. Probably the biggest reason is that the only time I really have is at night, and I generally fall asleep as soon as I turn it on. Hubby still watches quite a bit in the evenings, but our son has caught him and demanded if he has paid his TV Dollar. Hee hee!
So, I continue to search for stuff for the kids to do that does not involve demolition or play-dough or Mommy getting a surprise hair cut. But our next big lifestyle change is convincing Sassy that waking up two or three time in the night really isn't the best choice, and persuading Bubba to stay in his own bed instead of literally kicking me out of mine. Maybe then I will have enough energy to collect enough toilet paper tubes,bottle caps, and packing peanuts to guide my kids in creating the next great, unfortunately unpleasant wind chimes.
