Many of you have been curious about how The Great Experiment turned out. The long and short of it is that it ended on Thursday. My husband got up from bed Thursday morning, turned on the light in the bathroom and announced that the experiment was over. He received no argument from any other faction.
We did learn a couple of things. On the good side, when there are no electronic items to play with/occupy your time, people tend to gather together a lot more which causes conversation, music and quiet, side-by-side reading. On the bad side, no overhead lights mean that you can’t really see things that are located around and about the house. This can be OK, especially if you haven’t cleaned in a while and you don’t want a messy home stressing you out. But, if you are looking for something that you swear you had yesterday and now you can’t find it – having no lights to shed on the situation can be a debilitating problem.
All in all, it was a good experience. We all acknowledged that the boys were far more affected by the Experiment than the rest of us as they spent the most time in the house during the day. Has it affected our lives moving forward? I’d like to think that it has. Only time will tell for sure.
