Life is good.  Oh, there are hard times and struggles, but when I look at my big picture.  Life is good.  It doesn't take a high dollar job, a perfect body, or anything fanciful. 


If we have a home, food, and family.......We are doing good.  I watch the people around me.  I see the young people today who expect so much, and parents who foolishly give what is expected.  Do 9 year olds need cell phones, TVs in their rooms, or their own lap top? 


This is no TV month at our house.  We aren't watching the TV for the month of January.  We do this twice a year.  And, yes, I know people think we are crazy.  That's okay with me, although I would rather that people listen to why and what we gain from it so they could possibly be convinced to give it a try. 


I thought you'd never ask.  We have a dyslexic child who never wanted to pick up a book.  Stopping TV helped us get more reading in.  Then we realized that we spent more time talking, laughing, sharing and having fun as a family during that month.  With no TV to sit in front of we had more sit down look at each other time while we ate our dinner.  Not till you have done it for a while do you realize just how many great things there are to do without it. 


I will be honest.  There are 5 people in my house and only 2 of us are totally convinced about no TV month.  My husband is not one of the two.  He agrees because he knows in his heart that it is good, but he really misses TV.  Don't get me wrong.  I am not a saintly woman who doesn't look at TV.  I am a TV head, I can quote many a program, but I aspire to be free of some of the persuasion of TV.  The seamier it gets the more I want to get away from it. 


Oh, and.........we don't have cable or satellite either. :)