Last Week’s Strategy
Last week I reflected on all the wonderful people I know and I thanked them for who they are and what they mean to me. I often think of ways in which I can express my thankfulness but then don’t act on my thoughts as much as I would like. It was nice to spend the week writing cards and making phone calls to all the wonderful people in my life… by knowing them, I am a better person.
This Week’s Strategy
The hectic pace of everyday life… often I wish I could slow it all down. This week’s strategy involves prioritizing family time over other activities. Here are the actions I will take to meet my goal of spending more quality time with my family.
– E-mail, blogging, watching television… all of these activities eat up valuable time spent with my daughter. This week I will start the practice of doing these activities either before my daughter gets up in the morning or after she goes to bed.
– I will “schedule” activities with her and my husband every evening. For example, tonight we built a puzzle together, tomorrow we will play with play dough, on Thursday we will bake something and on Friday we will have a family game night.
– I will also seek out inspiring ideas to keep our activities fun and exciting.
How does your family spend quality time together? As always, I welcome your comments and suggestions. In the meantime, I would like to wish you a wonderful week.
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I think scheduling time is a nice idea, but one I would have difficulty keeping up. If you can manage it, I think that’s great.
Quality time is so important for every family. My husband and I go out for brekky every Saturday morning – this is our time. Our boys are in their teens so we can do this – but even when they were little my mother in law used to have them overnight 2 or 3 times a year and we would go out for dinner and do the romantic stuff. With our boys we schedule a games evening once a month and share time this way. Even in everyday life however we share dinner together and prayers together just before bed …. I think the key strategy is “you have to MAKE the time”!!