Disipline and Digital Age Relationships

I am back from my unexpected hiatus from blogging. :)

Tonight we went out as a family to tour the Brown Mansion in beautiful candle light. That was a trip. The girls were acting like little pretty MONSTERS. I was just waiting for someone to kick us out before we had seen all of the decorated rooms.  

Up in the Ballroom, there were cookies and lots of space to (run) or  that's what the girls thought it was for.

I get it, they are "kids" and they probably didn't appreciate the beauty in that enormous mansion like I did. We had to keep telling them "no, don't touch that!!"   Towards the end, while sweet little Soph was running and dancing around on the wooden Ballroom floor (on her knees) I  seriously grabbed the elbow of her jacket and said very sternly "stop it! what is the matter with you!? you know better than to act like this!" 

I must have gotten through to her, because she stopped immediately. Then she and I walked down the stairs and headed out of the Mansion.

I told Chris and we were walking down the sidewalk, to our car and the kids were up ahead of us still acting like wild animals... "I was just waiting for the older ladies up in the Ballroom to applaud me for getting onto Soph for behaving well, like a kid." He  just laughed.  

Because, you just KNOW back in the day, when they were kids or had kids Sophie's age, they didn't put up with that kind of behavior. 

Next, we went to dinner, at a fancy-smancy restaurant called McDonalds. Perhaps you have heard of it? :)

We ordered then sat down. Not long after getting our food one of us adults (Chris or I) pulled out his/ or her phone and just started doing...who knows what on it. Maybe work, maaaaaybe Candy crush?   

At that moment, I said to myself, "this is going to be a blog entry." 

Then, a few tables down from us, in my line of sight, I saw the SWEETEST thing ever...

Now, I don't know this cute couple. Perhaps some of you do. But, the point is...though they were just sitting next to each other (and on the same side of the table! : ) and not doing much talking,  I could tell that they are still in love after all these years. How sweet is that?

     It reminded me of the precious love my grandpa had for my grandma.  My grandpa loved my grandma VERY much. My grandma passed away first. They both shared a room in a nursing home in their last few years on Earth.

    Want to know just HOW MUCH  Grandpa loved her?
He sat in his wheelchair next to her bedside after she had went on to be with our Heavenly Father, all alone..... until the funeral home came to take her away. Even as I am typing this, it brings tears to my eyes!
It has been 6 years since my grandma passed away, and my grandpa went to be with her only 7 short months later.  I completely believe that he died of a broken heart. He just couldn't go on without her any longer. Now that is "til death do we part" kind of love.

   At both of their funerals I cried more than I have ever cried in my whole life. Especially at her funeral.
Not because I loved her more than I loved him, but because my grandpa was the strongest, most ornery and hard working man I have ever known, was bawling and just kept saying her name over and over at her service.
I cried with him.

 That is the difference between their generation and ours....they didn't have a techie device in their hands, going-to-town-on-it  making those who they are with feel unimportant.
I need to stop being on my phone at dinner with my family and while I am around good company.


Questions to ponder:  Do you discipline your kids in public?    
                                 Do you feel like you are on your phone or other tech device too much?


Until next time..
xoxo

PS: sorry if I made any of you readers cry while reading this.