My daughter Aubry came up with the phrase - It's a New Year - Let's Be Better!!!
She loves to create activities and projects - so on New Years Day we had games lined up to play. We played tug of war, who can drink a cup of water the fastest and cops and robbers. After the games she had color coded sheets for us to use to write down our New Years - Let's Be Better Resolutions.
We each had to come up with 3 things that we wanted to improve on this year.
Here are our lists - hopefully at the end of the year - we can each say We Were Better.
Mine
Clean 1 room a day in the house
Get healthier - exercise at least 3 times a week
Reduce the yelling in the house
Ben - the over achiever did more than 3
Exercise 3 times a week
Date night 1 time a month
Stop throwing cars - (this one might be pretty easy for him :)
Play with kids daily
Read Bible daily
Focus Areas: Patience and not bring "work" home
Focus Areas: Patience and not bring "work" home
Aubry (10 years old)
Keeping my tongue in my mouth
Keep my chair down
Be nice to Isaac and JJ
Isaac (7 years old)
Listen
Bothering
Yelling
JJ (3 years old)
Stop Screaming
No Kicking
No Fighting
It was pretty cool to see everything that everyone came up with. We didn't help the kids at all - (except we did write JJ's down for him). We got the lists out tonight to see how we are doing on our goals and to be honest we have all been pretty slack this week. Isaac actually looked at his list and started crying because he realized he hadn't been working on any thing off his list. We pointed out to him that no one in the family has done very well this week. So now I'm off to figure out a way to make our Let's Be Better goals more visible. I might go do some digging on Pinterest to see if I can make it look great too.
