no tv

A little over a month ago Stan and I started talking about what a distraction the TV in our room had become.  Other than in my college dorm room years, I had never had a TV in my bedroom. You can read how exciting it was for me when we first moved the TV in just over a year ago.  We spent many a cold night snuggled up in the bed watching movies or shows.  It was great for those late night dream feed nursing sessions.  But it started to become and issue.

We knew with the intense language study time we would be doing this summer that the TV could seriously distract us from important study time and other tasks that needed to be done during non-study time.  So when we found out some friends were looking for an inexpensive TV, we took it as confirmation that it was time to let it go.  I know I will miss it on the nights when Stan is out of town, or next winter when it's freezing downstairs and we want to have a movie night, but...we will be OK.

Another decision we made was to cut out all weekday TV time.  For us and the boys.  I am ashamed at how many hours of TV we were letting the boys watch.  It's seriously embarrassing.  It had become the go to entertainment for them when they got bored playing outside or in their room.  So of course they eventually got to the point where they only wanted to watch TV and never play outside or in their room.  With the start of school for Kirby and our own need for more discipline we just cut it out.  We have now made it almost through three full weeks of no weekday TV.  My friend E asked me if I thought we would be glued to it 12 hours a day on Saturday and Sunday but we haven't.  The boys have chosen to have movie night for the past two Friday's but I feel a lot less guilty about it since they had gone without all week.

Our hope is to keep this going.  I thought it would be challenging but since we only watch DVDs it has been pretty easy.  And since we only keep up with maybe 4 current shows it won't be hard to download them and save them for the weekend once the new seasons begin.  This has definitely been helpful as I've been getting more organized and disciplined.