Making Changes

When you first start dating someone, you have a lot of visions and ideas about what you'd be like together. When you're engaged, you're convinced that your life will be exactly how you plan it to be, and you feel on top of the world.

Then you get married, and things don't always go the way you plan, so you make plans for the kind of lifestyle you'll adopt once you have kids.

Then you have a kid, and not much has changed. What do you do then?

Change.

I've been thinking a lot lately about what I want maddie to grow up with. What kind of eating habits do I want to teach her? What do I want her to remember most about her childhood. And I never thought I would say it, but I'm reverting back to my Oregon Hippie roots.

Changes Jeff and I are considering about making:

- No TV. I'm not sure why we haven't talked about doing it before, since my whole undergraduate course of study was on how damaging the media is to men, women, and children. Not to mention how much free time you have together as a family when you're not watching TV.
But here are a few problems: how would we be able to watch sports? That is honestly and truly the only thing holding us back at this point. Does anyone who has experience with this have any solutions?

- Being vegan.
Just kidding! Not totally vegan, but adding more and more fruits and vegetables to our diets. We've already successfully cut out all fast food. (not that we don't still crave it at times)
Now we're considering cutting out processed foods all together.

But there you have it. a healthier diet, and less time around the TV. Does anyone have any experience with either of these things? suggestions?