Week One of Media Fast is in the books.  However, henceforth I will be writing it like this: “Media Fast.”  We can talk about it in a minute.

But first, a few Halloween 2014 photos:

Chiefs Player on the way to Preschool!

Swamp Monster for the school parade and party.

I love that I caught this look between them on camera while they carved the pumpkin.  I feel like I can picture Caden at 17 in this photo.

Fun friends.  For your reference, Caden’s request was to be Toxic Peashooter from the game Plants vs. Zombies (which he isn’t allowed to play).  This was the goal:

So we got somewhere in the vicinity.

The next morning, Media Fast started out with a bang.  The above photo was the boys’ choice for wake up time: Lord of the Rings Risk game characters set up in battle mode, then acted out in real life.  I love them.

Later we headed to the library.  Dan rarely gets to go with us so it was a treat. Caden wanted to get World War I/II and Civil War books.  I promptly asked a lady shelving books where they were located.  My man? He took Caden to the reference computer, showed him how to look up the topic in which he’s interested, and taught him all about the Dewey Decimal System.  I love him.

And from the other day:

Twister is much less dramatic when only one person moves and the other person spins!

Here’s the honest truth: While Wii and iPad have been nonexistent, I have not done well at limiting the boys’ video and TV time.

There I said it.

It hasn’t been a horrible breach of the original boundaries, but I’m still feeling bummed about it.

My husband always puts a practical spin on issues.  He said something along the lines of, “Maybe we just limit the gaming right now instead of everything all at once.”

I contemplated whether or not he even knows who I am, but then realized he was right.  TV hadn’t been out of control with the boys.  However, asking to play games had been to a high annoyance level, and the asking has been waaay reduced.  So we have a victory.  And if I’m not always letting them replace that time with TV, I think we won’t miss the point of this month.

Now for other “Media Fast” news: I am not timing myself, but I’m pretty sure that even though it’s interspersed throughout the day, I’m on here more than an hour a day.  So I think this fast is more accurately put like this: No Wii, iPad games, Facebook and Pinterest.

I can live with it.

In wholesome family fun news, we’ve done one million drawings/paintings/colored pencil sketches. We’ve played many of the board games and card games we own.  (Including homemade Pictionary last night with a friend…after which she forced me to watch a show.  Forced.)  We have stacks of books from the library we are slowly working through.  Dress up has played a starring role.  We’ve done play-doh and made home movies with the camera and hung out with friends.

So there is more to life than gaming and Facebook stalking.

I have been writing and writing on a personal project.  But I miss blogging (mostly) daily.  It makes events more cemented in my brain.

So that’s week one in a nut shell.

Hope you’re having a good one!