On Demand

This is a pic of my 3 kids plus 2 more kids of some friends of ours that we were keeping one evening. Davis and Jude are about 3 months difference in age and Emma is 4 which is about right smack dab in the middle of Paige and Annalee. 5 kids 5 and under! Fun times! We did the assembly line "speed bath" as we call it, and had all 5 of them bathed, dressed, and hair dried in about 20 minutes flat! My philosophy thus far is that after 3, you can really add as many as you want into the mix. You're doing the same stuff and it doesn't feel any more or less overwhelming!
Anywho, the point of this post does not really have much to do with the pic, but they are all really cute, right? The subject of the post has to do with our cable. Scott's mom got us cable a few months ago, for football season for Scott. It was his birthday present. We got it at the end of October and will have it through the end of January. January is obviously approaching its latter days! Now, we have not had cable or satellite for about 2 years. It was an expense that we couldn't justify if we were having trouble making ends meet elsewhere, and ultimately we just didn't NEED it. It was kinda hard to give up at first, especially coming from satellite with a DVR that we were spoiled rotten with! So, now here we are with all these channels and fun kids stuff to watch as well. As a matter of fact, when we first got cable, Paige thought we had gotten a new t.v.! Sad! Not really though. They were better off without it ,and playing and using their imagination and talking were the only options. Our neighbors, whose kids we were keeping in the above picture, also got cable for a limited time and theirs ends this month too. She just recently stumbled upon a little known realm of On Demand the other day and shared the wealth of knowledge with me. You see, I always thought On Demand=you pay to watch something On Demand! That's logical, right? Well, apparently that's true for movies to rent and unsubscribed channels, but everything you're subscribed to is FREE! Which means, I can go to ON Demand, click on "Kids", then whatever kids channel, lets say "Disney", and then "Handy Manny", and like 5 episodes of Handy Manny pop up and you can click on any one of them and play it whenever! What?! How did I not know about this! And now that I'm in the know, I'm also very aware that we better milk this for all it's worth because it's gonna be gone in t-minus 16 days:( I'm sure some of you are thinking, what a slow girl I must be to not have known about this treasure of an option, but it's true! And next time I find out someone is installing cable, that is the first bit of info I will pass on!