Family Day
One of my two favorite days of the week. My first, is what we call, "family day at church". Running a close second is...Family Day! Family day is a day where our family purposefully spends the day together. We take the time to work on our chores or on a home project, but we try not to make the day about that either. If we do work, it is only until about noon. Then, it's party time! (The picture below is one of my favorite family days - we went to the Walnut Room downtown Chicago to celebrate the Christmas season - this pic is the kids looking out the windows at the clouds on the buildings. :)
I love this idea, my brother-in-laws children are a little older, and he takes his kids on geo-caching expeditions. This is one of the craziest things, but so fun for kids! It is like a scavenger hunt on steroids. If you type in geocaching in google, you will learn more about it. But, in a nutshell, you search your zip code for geocaches in your neighborhood. Then, you choose which one(s) you would like to find. They give you GPS coordinates and clues. If you've got some "middlers", this would be a perfect fun afternoon with them! http://www.geocaching.com/
(This picture is a day we went to Day Frog, again, downtown Chicago - it is an indoor play place and the kids have a BLAST! You can tell how worn out they were, this was after 10,000 princess dress try-on's and lots of cars, trucks, scooters, & slides later.)
Take time to eat with them, talk, play, laugh...at least one day a week. Is that too much to ask to spend on the most important people in your lives? And do you know what? You need a rest too! It's good for us mommas to sit down and enjoy the people you shuttle here and there, feed, wash, bath, brush...need I go on? :)
And, if your New Year's resolution is like mine, make that a day you call one family member or write one note, each week.
Anon Quote: "Life is a journey to be explored, not a trial to be endured."
-- Sent from my Palm Pre
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