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So last time it was why people show thumb to hitch hike their way. Andrew came up another question this time which took us considerable effort to find an answer. But I bet the question and answers were both worth it.

It started one afternoon; we were watching a holiday cartoon movie on television, I got up in a commercial break and pop came the question. He innocently asked and we all wondered why no one of us had thought about it before. What was the first commercial ever? Now that was really a tough one to answer. It was a question that could fit a game show category. So we set out to find the answer to his question. So this is what we found out. The first television commercial was a 10 second advertisement which was first aired on WNBT which was an affiliate station of NBC. It was shown before a baseball game between Philadelphia Phillies and Brooklyn Dodgers. Since 1928 commercials were being aired, but they were mostly considered illegal. The first legal commercial Bulova Spot was aired on July 1 1941.

I was till date completely un-aware of this particular piece of information. Looks like our little Andrew is going to leave us more educated.

This winter has been colder than last and my family is mostly indoors these days. Therefore this time I have decided to engage my children in creative and useful activity. What could be better than getting them on the project of redecorating their own room? So we set off and explained things to the kids. The younger one was especially excited so I had to make this clear that I am not going to allow fluorescent colors in the room. With common consensus we decided to get one wall on adventure theme while other would have pink fairy tale theme.

We first changed the wallpapers to green and blue later the theme based pictures adorned the walls. Next day we changed the bedding and put up the cut outs we made. Then came the time to change the door colors and the curtains were also changed. Lot of argument ensued in choosing the colors and patterns of the curtains but my husband was kind enough to pacify both the parties and we reached the color green with agreement. Changing and redecorating the room turned out to be quite an exercise for all of us, but it was really worth the family time we got.