Going without cable might have been the best decision we have made all year. We have read books, talked over dinner, played cribbage, gone to bed early, stayed up late, watched some movies, gone on bike rides through the park, baked more goodies, so many things that we couldn't seem to find time for before.
This is a proper Sunday lunch after church. A novelty pre-No Cable Month.
And we're actually not going to continue it (Ben's watching the US Open right now). We're not going to promise to raise our children without TV's. We're not going to make you feel guilty if you watch 4 hours of TV per day. But we learned some really valuable information: like what a hold TV really did have on our lives, how it made me cranky when I felt guilty about it, how it made me believe that reading a book after work would make me feel exhausted...which as it turns out isn't true, that spending time together watching TV together still leaves me feeling like we haven't seen each other all week. So I know we will be watching a lot less TV from now on and we are both really excited :)
And now for this month's new subtraction: NO TRAVEL MONTH. Thank God...Really.
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