Well, it’s going to be a cold night here in my neighborhood tonight just about a week away from Christmas. We may even have an ice storm ! I am happy to be at home with my men and my animals to keep me company. We are a contented bunch most of the time. My aim lately however, is to get everyone off of their screens and into the soup of life, mixing it up and talking to each other. It makes me cringe when I think of our house and all the other houses out in America with their inhabitants all together but each in their own cyber happy places . I don’t like the idea of everyone looking at their phones or games or devices. Spending hours and hours being so unproductive and still! Ugh! It’s a frightful thing to realize that only a decade before , this was not the state of our home life. I think back to our days of homeschooling and reading out loud. What wonderful memories those were! One of the books we read then was Strawberry Girl. My now, junior-in-highschool- son Cam, was in second grade then. It was a lovely Spring day out and we were all curled up in our bonus room together, listening , imagining … we were very peaceful and content listening to my husband read aloud. Dave and I would take turns reading till our voices got tired, which was about a chapter at a time. One of the most wonderful and satisfying things about read aloud time was that none of us ever wanted it to end! My little Cammy, struggling mightily to read due to some learning challenges we were just finding out about, was totally enthralled! I remember also how fast the time would go! Now, having the vastness of the internet at our fingertips , the temptation to be on our phones constantly is a real pull and one I don’t mind saying, has given me quite a bit of guilt. I know in my heart that we must limit our time sitting and looking at our phones. I am grateful to have had the influence of our past years homeschooling to guide me back to realizing that we should strive to be balanced in all things. The constant struggle to be balanced! Is that a real, achievable goal to have? I believe it is. I struggle with it daily in so many areas. I know most people do. I hope to get better at this as the years go by. Looking forward to making new memories with my family this holiday. My daughter and her new husband will be here soon. I think I will do my best to orchestrate moments of real time together, not time together where we are all sitting together in the living room on our phones. But time together cooking, eating, playing games, going to church, wrapping and opening presents. Discussing and remembering a recent wedding and days gone by. Maybe even getting some exciting news?!!!!
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