tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090587257451037642.post929608228975146521..comments2012-12-15T12:35:13.575-08:00Comments on Improvement is my goal, blogging my release: Modern MomTaunihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16176764838049702986noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090587257451037642.post-12843853273882234382011-03-23T20:58:35.844-07:002011-03-23T20:58:35.844-07:00I agree on the modern conveniences of hot showers ...I agree on the modern conveniences of hot showers and warm beds! Also love the back up plans for dinner. I don't think I would have handled pioneer days all that well....other than the bread making. I LOVE to make bread!<br /><br />My oldest keeps asking for a phone and we keep saying, "You are 8, you don't need a phone" but I know that the time of saying that is starting to dwindle!<br /><br />As for Family Home Evening...it is something I love but it is HARD to make it work. We have to plan activities around it. Such as, we don't sign the kids up for activities if they take place on monday every week. An occassional performance on Monday (like a dance recital ever 4 months) is ok...and that is our Monday activity but if it is constant we say no. I grew up in a home that didn't do Family Home Evening but I had a great friend that always did and I always wanted that in my home when I grew up. It is not easy to make work each week but I am so grateful for the unity it creates.Taunihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16176764838049702986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090587257451037642.post-12233104064163506342011-03-23T11:36:18.710-07:002011-03-23T11:36:18.710-07:00This post speaks to me in volumes! I understand e...This post speaks to me in volumes! I understand exactly what you are saying here. Although I don't wish to do without the modern conveniences of today's times (I don't think I could ever do without a shower everyday, with hot running water!) I do envy the simple times without all the distractions that we have going on today. I always told myself, NO CELLPHONES for my kids! But...when the time came around that they were old enough to hang out with friends, play basketball down the street, go to the mall with girl friends....I was left without a way to contact them. (How in the world did my mother ever keep her sanity when I was young and I'd leave the house in the morning and not come home until dinner? Didn't she worry herself gray? I just can't do it. I have to know where they are, what they are doing, who they are with...) Anyway, I found myself getting them each a cellphone once they entered those preteen years. It gave my mind peace -- but yet, it was a trade off, see...because then the texting to friends started up. I thought about just not allowing them to text their friends, but then they'd be left out. In today's times, THAT is the "thing" -- and it's so very hard for me to not let them be a part of something that's fun and a way to communicate with friends. I do have to say "put your cell phone away" from time to time so that I can have my child actually THERE with us instead of sucked into some conversation with a far off friend. But then...I can't really say much about that, because how many times am I not fully THERE when I'm checking my email or looking at a blog, or whatever else I do on the internet? There are FAR too many distractions in this day and age that takes us away from being 100% present in our own home. My favorite days are rainy days because first off, I totally dig the rain and any storm that brings it on...but mostly I think I love the rain because it keeps my family home, for the most part. All sporting events are cancelled, and other "dates" that involved being outside. I love the Family Home Evening that the LDS families do each week. My best friend is LDS and I love the traditions that they have. I've tried to adopt the Family Home Evening into our own home, even though we are Catholic...but it just seems very hard to do when kids are in sports and some of them have practice that night. I feel like we are all going in different directions sometimes...and a part of me really desires to be in the pioneer days. That way of life appeals to me, in that regard. But not all that work! They had so much work to do, those pioneer women. I'm lazy, LOL. I guess, though, if I were born in that era, I would not be lazy. I could not afford to be! My family would depend on me. There would be no back up Pizza Hut just in case I didn't get around to cooking dinner that night!Katrinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04446770591516588794noreply@blogger.com