Off with the TV

The crowd has returned. Three of my children spent today at a nearby lake where we own property. They are wanting to build a cottage on one of the lots, I think. They would probably like for us to build it but Don says no to that. It will have to be a group concensus before anything goes on the lot, not just one or two of the children making the decision. Of course, there has been no decisions made and I'm sure that an agreement will be easy for them to reach when the time is right for all four of them.

One of our grandsons, the 15-year-old, stayed with us today. He is so well-behaved and gets along so well with the little three-year-olds. They are having a blast now pretending to be on a camping trip at the lake. They have build an imaginary campfire and are roasting marshmallows. I think it's great to see them using their imaginations. So many children now have none, at least they don't have to engage that part of their brains due to everything being fed to them via TV, etc. I recall playing with big boxes as the highlight of our play time. We would cut holes for windows and doors and each of us would have our own playhouse. Sometimes we used the box as a post office or a store. What fun that was! May children turn off the tubes and get back to their imagination stations.