T-Minus 1 day and Counting...

Natalie is determined to drain every last drop of worthless-tv-watching as she can before school starts tomorrow and the dreaded Cable guy comes by to shut off all but the broadcast channels.

Good-bye Spongebob Squarepants! Farewell, Kids Next Door! Sayonara Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Perhaps we'll meet on another shore.

Seriously, my kid has watched too much television this summer. We slid into this awful habit of using the tv as constant entertainment, and most other activities: making collages, painting, reading etc have fallen by the wayside. We were way too lazy this summer, though I doubt that she has been irreversibly harmed by my failing. She has been protesting this decision to cut the cord mightily, but we are confident that, in a week or so, she'll not even notice it. She'll be at school most of the day anyway. Perhaps she'll come home, bursting with play ideas. We shall see.