Priorities

This kid right here is what really matters so I've issued a challenge to myself. For one week I'm not going to turn the tv on while Kaleb is awake. Instead we're going to play, read, go outside, and clean up. I feel like I spend so much time telling him "no" and I realized it's because I'm so busy "relaxing," aka. watching tv, that I don't pay attention. I know, that's horrible. So the tv goes off while Kaleb is up. Today I had my class so I spent the good part of the day in Hattiesburg. When I got home it was past time for Kaleb's nap so I put him down and, instead of watching tv, worked on some homework to get ahead in my July class. I know that when I have to start working in my classroom I'm going to lose time to work on my homework, so I'm trying to get ahead so I don't fall behind. When he got up about an hour later we played outside and he played with trucks while I cleaned out our junk drawer and double checked our massive beginning of the month shopping list. I think it's going to be tempting to turn on the tv, but I can resist for at least a week. I'm not that lazy. I do find that I'm exhausted at 9:30 so maybe I'll be able to fall asleep before 2:00 am.