A Whole Week Without TV??

Well, it's Thursday and we've successfully made it through four complete days of absolutely no television programs. The boys' elementary school is sponsoring a "No TV Week" for the students and the boys are, believe it or not, willingly participating in it with very little complaint. As the week progresses, it's actually getting easier and easier to do without the "idiot box." I made an exception for PS2 games, but they can only play ACTIVE games, i.e. EyeToy "Play" and Dance Dance Revolution. As they haven't figured out how to do the latter, they're limited to the EyeToy with Kung Fu. If the boys make it through the whole week (ending this Sunday), they will be entered in a drawing for prizes and have their picture taken for the TRF Times.

As for what we've been doing with our time without TV, the boys have been outside virtually the entire week bouncing on the trampoline and working on batting, fielding, and football throwing and catching skills with me. Last night, the boys had AWANA Club at the Free Church and it was "Father-Son" night with a Nintendo GameCube "Super-Mario" challenge. Each of us teamed up with our sons (Aaron) and played on one controller. No father won, unfortunately. A pleasant surprise was when the Drevlow boys showed up with Joe. He used to take them to AWANA, but hasn't for a while due to family scheduling conflicts, so it was nice to see him there again. He mentioned they're about to have Brett's birthday party, which will actually consist of "football." They are going to take the kids out to Franklin's practice field next Monday night and play flag football. He says more often than not that's what his oldest boys ask for in terms of a birthday "party." Joe said the only problem is every boy wants to be the quarterback, but given Joe's size (about my size, or the size of a Mack truck), he's afraid the smaller kids will stop right in front of him suddenly and he'll end up mowing them down. He says he can still run faster than half of them, hence the problem (He used to play guard for the Brown University football team). Joe therefore plays quarterback. He said I can then play quarterback for the other team, so this sounds like it's going to be a pretty good night of play next week.

Carol Delap stopped by after I put the boys to bed last night and dropped off leftover sloppy joe fixings from the activity they had at Trinity last night. They were putting together some kind of care packages for Hurricane Katrina victims and she had invited Aaron to bring Daniel and I, but we had the AWANA group. It was rather nice of her to drive over and drop off the food, though.

Daniel has been quite the character this week with a few funny remarks. I'll just record a couple that I can remember here. The other night when I went to bed, I roused Daniel a little bit and he looks up at me with sleepy eyes and asks me, "How's your burger?" The other chuckle came yesterday morning when I got him up for school. He had overslept and I was helping him get ready, putting a pair of shorts on him as it's been rather nice weather here lately. After I got them on he says, "NO! I don't want to wear shorts...I want LONG-SLEEVED pants. I'll freeze!"

Aaron has his field trip tomorrow to Bemidji State University with his gym class so he'll get to learn how to climb a rock wall down there and interact with college physical education majors. I have to drive him to Challenger first thing in the morning so they can head out right away for Bemidji. Should be fun for him.

This weekend is the Shriner's Circus and we're still deciding whether we'll go or not. Joe's family is going, so we may do it, but depends on scheduling, etc.

That's about all that's happening or has happened this week. It's supposed to be 67 degrees for a high today and sunny skies, perfect for after school sports... :o)