Daily Life - Our Cyber Sabbath

It isn't often this mama lays down the law.

Two Sundays ago, sitting out on the swing seat on a glorious autumn day, while every other member of the family sat inside looking at a screen, I felt the need.

No screens for any of us, from sun-up to sun-down.Into the foreseeable future.

Our first Sunday, we drove far away from temptation, into the mountains, to gardens with trees blazing with reds and oranges, to a picnic in a quiet park, to the bribe of the old-fashioned lolly shop.

Yesterday we stayed close to home.

Yesterday there was time to:

Play catch with a boy for the longest time.

Sit in the sun with a big girl on my lap.

Make a double batch of pizza dough from scratch.

Take a long, neighbourhood walk.

Come home and bake pizzas together.

Eat pizzas together.

Rest and chat on my bed for a while.

Look at Lego design books.

Play six rounds of Scattergories.

Read, ride a bike, practice catching some more.

Make a trip to the library.

By day's end, I felt I'd actually spent time with the four other people in my family.

I think it's good when mama lays down the law. I need to do it more often.