It's American Idol nite tonight! Tuesday evenings are set aside for the girls and I to watch and laugh at the antics of Simon, Randy and Paula. We love this show. At first I was kinda against it. Until I realized that this is one thing that the girls, especially my teen, really like to do with me. They take showers right after dinner (which isn't hard as we eat late on Tuesdays as Claire has ballet class from 5-6 pm), and get into cozy pj's and fleece blankets and curl up on the couches together. They take turns sitting with me on the big couch. Each person gets the loveseat to themselves at least once a week. Tonite it is Claire's turn for the loveseat. Our family room tends to be cold in winter....it has the sliding glass doors that open to the deck and in the winter, even with thermal drapes on the doors, it is cold! So, I make hot tea for me and sometimes hot cocoa for them although we don't tend to snack on school nites. It depends on the weather. Tonite they will have a choice of hot cocoa or popcorn while watching. We don't have cable and my children do not watch tv after dinner, before bed, on school nites. Until the last season of American Idol. There was a singer on there (remember Melinda??!) who is a Christian and we really wanted her to win. She was so good that I started letting Courtney watch it. Then during the finals we started allowing Claire to watch. She doesn't need as much sleep as Courtney so getting to bed at 9 pm on a school nite isn't as detrimental for her as it would have been for Courtney at that age! Of course with Courtney being a teen, her bedtime is 10 pm so watching it isn't a problem for her. One thing we don't allow her to do is skip her small group Bible study (life::groups) on Wednesday evenings. She is in a group for youth group, with 4 other freshmen girls. 2 girls are homeschooled and 3 are at the high school. The leader is a good friend of ours whom we met when we first joined this church. Many of the girls in the group love American Idol so I tape it for them to watch later in the week. Why am I writing about American Idol? Well, because it beats going up stairs and vacuuming the living room! (yeah, I am still on my "why bother to do housework" kick!) but hey...last nite I did a load of laundry while Claire was at drama rehearsal, and right after work today I did the food shopping as we are expecting a major snowstorm later tonite. So....time to go make sure the kids are doing their chores and homework and time for me to dig the vacuum out of the closet....even though around our house today...I really don't feel like it. American Idol can't come too soon!
Do you watch American Idol? If so, why? If not, why not??