Shut in weekend? Not hardly...

Dear James, Daniel and Emily,

The weather may seem to meet th criteria of a weekend where we stay comnfortably inside our snug house, but I don't think is what will happen. First, we already have 2 planned outings: James b-ball on Saturday, then a Chinese New Years party on Sunday. Plus I have a planned trip to the library to get some books for James's school project. So, while we may spend much of Saturday in the house we will brave the inclement weather regardless.

Hobby

Hoping to take some time this weekend to dig out some miniatures and paints. Maybe do some painting again. I really need to find something to do in the evenings after the family goes to bed other than watch TV and get the urge to snack. And I can paint and watch TV. So it might be fun to try and do a little this weekend, see how hard or easy it is.

Emily

It took some hard core parenting (locking her in her room and letting her cry) but she went to sleep in her room and stayed in there last night. It remains to be seen if that will have to happen again tonight, but I can hope we can turn the corner on bed times again.

Health

Had better weeks, although doing 2 walks a day will help once I get the eating back to normal. The tough part of the coming weekend will be watching the eating. But still feeling real good, and haven't lost sight of the prize.

Sports

2 weeks, no football, and keeping away from watching basketball or obsessing over scores every night. Feeling good about it, the NBA is actually pretty easy to ignore these days as it has become such a hard game to watch unless you like Star Ball.

Politics

This weeks news certainly was interesting. And next week could be even more interesting, who needs sports when you can follow politics?

Great article this morning, brings up an absolutely fascinating idea that falls right in line with Open Government and Question Time. And my feeling is why not? Why can't we bring State & Federal legislatures into the 21st Century? Why not open them up technologically with modern technology, and get away from the idea of the centralized State houses where All Business Must Be Done? The only reason that I can see, other than this is the way we've always done it, is that the lobbyists have greater access now (which is an argument in favor of this idea not against it IMHO).