Don’t tell the kids the babysitter’s dead

I have 2 babysitters that I really rely on.

One is my dad.  Thank God for him.  The kids love him.  Way more than me. He reads with them, draws with them, plays hide-and-seek with them, plays board games with them, practices baseball… Very hands-on.  He’s great.

The other babysitter is available even more than my father.  But both the kids and I had really started taking advantage of her.  So I kind of had to fire her.  Just on school days.

Last week, we said goodbye to the television on Monday through Thursday nights.

I had been thinking about this for a while, but I was dreading the fallout from the kids.

I envisioned this:

and this

But they all kind of just accepted it.  I thought I’d get a decent enough reaction for a good blog post.

Instead, I really got nothing.  I actually got the opposite.  Everyone’s been cooperating.  Number 3 made this pretty cool board game the other night:

And I even sat down and read a couple books with Number 5 while Number 3 and Number 4 played that game.

It’s been very Cleaver-esque.

And very tiring.

Thank God it’s Friday.

I need to turn that damn tv back on and seriously ignore my children.

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