New Year's resolutions are like rules, they are made to be broken.
In our home we have welcomed 2013 with a new tradition ... one evening a week we will be *technology-free* for family night and part of that fun will be my girls learning how to cook dinner with me.
With two teenage daughters, this announcement was met with the onset of panic and tears, which only made the need for this type of family evening even stronger.
It went easier than anticipated and Brooke said she enjoyed our evening together.
Here's the rules: No phone, television, ipods, XBOX, Wii or music. The three of us have to spend the evening together.
It feels kind of like the power went out at home, but we have lights.
I'm not sure why the sound of technology-free one night a weeks sounds so difficult, we have become such an entertained generation. I like back-to-the-basics. It is the complement of modern technology meets old-fashioned way of doing things.
It's the best of both worlds.
