March Madness has passed. We did our brackets again this year. Adam and Jeff both pick North Carolina as the champion. But Adam had more points, so he was the official winner and he's ready to go shopping. His prize is a $20 Wal-Mart gift card and the child can not hold onto money (or gift cards) for any length of time. He wants to buy a basketball game for the Playstation, despite the fact that we already own multiple basketball games. 
But Adam wasn't the only winner. Evan, whiner-extraordinaire, has been writing. He refused to fill out the brackets because it involved picking up a pencil and making marks on paper. Pencil and paper are his enemies. And then one day, I saw it. He was making his own brackets with his own made-up teams! I grabbed my camera because I knew no one would believe me. He was writing without being forced and without whining. I guess basketball is good for something.
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