A lot of kids these days are kept very very busy. Just about every kid I know is signed up for something. Some are in karate or gymnastics or fencing etc. I find myself wondering what this is all about? Do we think they're going to cease to exist at some point? I mean, most of the things I'm interested in I chose myself as an adult. I came home after school and mostly watched tv. Okay, not necessarily what you want for your kids, but maybe it's not as bad as the perfect people think. You know the perfect people, they're the ones who don't invite you over unless the house is perfect (which translates to once or twice a year). Their kids are perfect and their lives are perfect. They have more house than they can afford and they lease a new car every three years. They wear makeup to the grocery store and basically make the rest of us miserable.

My problem is, because all the kids are kept so busy, there are never any around to play with my kids. My kids play outside at our house. Don't get me wrong, there are always extra kids here, but a lot of the kids that would be around are spending their days playing travel soccer; every weekend, a lot of weekday nights. Too bad.

How fun it must be for those perfect people to spend all of their nights at soccer practice and every weekend at soccer games. Ugh.

I'm not sure what we're all going for, but my kids are pretty good so far.

More about the perfect people in the future, I'm sure.