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Yesterday was interesting to say the least. I was not home when my husband and kids got home, I was still up at my parents "storing" our TV. My husband tried to call me but I ignored the call , I wanted to be home for the face to face SURPRISE! so I decided not to answer my phone and give him any clues to where the TV went. As I was driving home my heart was pounding, LOL. How stupid, its just a TV, its not like I commited some horrible act against anyone. So I get home, trying to hold back a smile and a grin I thought I was going to explode with laughter. You see, I am so darn HAPPY that the giant TV, that was taking up so much space in my living room is finally gone.
Anyway, as I'm pulling up the driveway, my kids come out all panic stricken saying ''MOM our TV is missing". My husband kind of gave me a look like, what did you do? We went in the house and I explained that I thought that there was way to much TV watching in the house and that we needed to start doing other things. I said it wasn't good to spend their free time sitting on a couch staring at a giant box, when there was so much more interesting things to do.
Last night went pretty good, we played a couple games the kids played with toys and tried on their Halloween costumes, one of the kids read a book. It was actually a very nice relaxing night. The one thing that was very noticeable is that there was no fighting. The kids were busy doing things they has no time to fight. When they just in front of the TV they get bored and fight, I never let them sit and watch to much anyway, but the hubby always had it on and the kids would sit and watch. I was constantly turning it off and I was tired of having to babysit the TV. I am so happy it is gone.
Glad it is working out.
But I think this is the calm before the storm.
Soon your family will go through withdrawal symptoms.
I hope your up for the fight.
Life is so much more productive without the television. if one wants to break a habit, they must do without it for 21 consecutive days. if one is able to jog, not smoke, not drink, not watch tv, etc. for 21 days in a row...they no longer have a habit. it has been broken.
i don't do it very much anymore but when i was in college i would go a couple of days without sleeping (no drugs or alcohol). it was like a natural high/experience in itself. i found tv to be the most annoying thing possible around hour 25 or 26 of being up. you tend to gain a new perspective on things when you don't constantly hit "reset" every 16 hours or so by going to sleep. It's amazing the clarity and peace that i was able to achieve. i painted nice pictures (although they were abstract lol) and found music incredibly entertaining. maybe it was just a fluke thing but the point is i found tv to be beyond annoying while i had obtained this higher state of being that was induced from lack of sleep. it was obvious that everything coming out of that box, that the room's furniture was centered around, was simply a tactic to make money or influence one's opinions. both boring and redundant. although, i am one to complain. i watch waaay too much television on the weekends. all day saturday and all day sunday i watch football. Also, one's attention span improves greatly with lack of television that basically splits your attention span into small intervals of seconds or minutes.
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, I wanted to be home for the face to face SURPRISE! so I decided not to answer my phone and give him any clues to where the TV went. As I was driving home my heart was pounding, LOL. How stupid, its just a TV, its not like I commited some horrible act against anyone. So I get home, trying to hold back a smile and a grin I thought I was going to explode with laughter. You see, I am so darn HAPPY that the giant TV, that was taking up so much space in my living room is finally gone.
like, what did you do? We went in the house and I explained that I thought that there was way to much TV watching in the house and that we needed to start doing other things. I said it wasn't good to spend their free time sitting on a couch staring at a giant box, when there was so much more interesting things to do. 
I am so happy it is gone.
