Borrowing an awesome idea from my friends, Amy and Jeanine (of Serving Pink Lemonade fame), last night for Family Home Evening we helped the boys write goals.
Garrett
Personal -- Improve my art skills.
Spiritual -- Say more thoughtful prayers.
Happy Home -- Use a softer voice (which I hope also translates to "not immediately freaking out when things don't go his way").
Mom's Goal -- Practice reading for 15 minutes every day.
Caleb
Personal -- Learn the alphabet and how to write my name.
Spiritual -- Close my eyes during prayer and be more reverent.
Happy Home -- Stop pushing and hitting others.
Mom's Goal -- Be read to for 15 minutes every day.
Matthew
Was asleep while we did this.
Also, he's only 9 months old.
So he'll make goals another time.
Mom's Goal -- Learn to crawl. And then walk.
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books read in 2017
- The Angry Tide by Winston Graham
- Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
- Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
- Textbook Amy Krous Rosenthal by Amy Krous Rosenthal
- The Bertie Project by Alexander McCall Smith
- The Orphan Keeper by Camron Wright
- The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Pax by Sara Pennypacker
- Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
- My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
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- recipes (43)
- the boys this week (30)
3 comments:
I love it. I wonder if since I was asleep when my family first talked about this, I have a free out? ;)
We set two goals in each of these categories this year:
Personal (and one of these was a Spiritual Goal)
Family
and Self-Sufficiency
M and J balked at the Self-Sufficiency category, feeling like they didn't need to learn much to go off to college. I guess S is closer to reality because she set 10 goals in that category. :)
And now, it seems I should have blogged today because I think I just wrote a post on your blog. Whoops. Sorry.
Oooh! I love these goals! So much fun!
I love this. I will steal this idea. Thank you Lindsay, Amy and Jeanine :)
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