Reality Is Finding Home

My relationship with the blogosphere has been spotty at best lately.  The latest entries came quite easily, exploiting our sudden and voracious appetite for live concerts.

Dare I go deep…but all this frolicking around having a smashing good time means nothing without a family and a home to return to.  We keep each other on track, bittersweet at times, but in the end we feel better about ourselves and about each other.  It’s a bit of a generalization.  Not all families are good for each other.  I know, I see it all around me.  And it can be quite sad. 

 

Cable, Be Gone!

After months of deliberation, my husband and I decided to pull the plug on a huge chunk of cable channels. Everything beyond channel 20 disappeared yesterday just moments after I called Comcast and demanded a downgrade to Basic cable. They tried everything to keep us on our triple play plan, offering us promotion after promotion. I finally told them enough with the deals, we just want less tv.

We still have our ipods, internet, aim, email, video games and cell phones. Isn’t that enough? I hear it now — the groans of tv withdrawal. The lifeline to Miley, Carly and Bikini Bottom cutoff at the jugular. Here’s a little synopsis of our life without 200+ channels of tv.

Day Two on Basic Cable: Children sitting in family room early Sunday morning watching the only cartoon available, a Spanish dubbed Jimmy Neutron. Husband and I look on from kitchen enjoying every minute of it.

Later that day: Children take advantage of the great outdoors, without being told to do so. Skateboards, bikes, scooters… ahh…and look..my children…cruising down the hill.

Outdoors at the frog pond.

 

Photo? No Photo?

I deleted the photos of my family on the About page. I don’t know. I still have reservations about my children’s faces on a public blog. Should I be? My feelings about it flip flop pretty frequently. I am obviously not comfortable with it yet, so I took it off just a minute ago. I might take the advice Terri,Terri gave me and maybe use back shots…hmm…I will be thinking about this one for a while. Does anyone out there have reservations about this, or am I just paranoid?