Goals

As a family, we have been really focused on goals for the last while. We make goals on our white board every week as a part of home church. These are things ranging from "learn how to make a quesadilla" to "invite a friend over to play by myself." Aaron and I pick weekly goals too. From time to time, we pick a family goal as well. Lately, the two big family goals have been OOB mins (Out of Breath Minutes) and vegetables. 

As the Halloween candy started pouring in (which it seems to do continuously through the month of October), Aaron gave the kids a very persuasive pep talk during dinner about the value of vegetables. He somehow got them on board to agree to eat the daily amount of vegetables recommended by the FDA (2 1/2 cups) in order to get dessert, which is usually a piece of their Halloween candy. This has resulted in daily conversations about how many veggies were part of their school lunches and kids getting out measuring cups to figure out how many more veggies to eat. We have been impressed by their newly found enthusiasm for vegetables!

The ward had a goal this year to have every child visit the temple grounds. We finally made it in October. It was... not the best day for a visit. It was way colder than it had been and started raining when we were there. We broke out the emergency jackets but were still quite chilly. But we made it and were able to have a good conversation with the kids about why temples are important. The older two had to use the bathroom, so I got to take them into the lobby and the nice bathroom there. I hope it left an impression on them. 

Hopefully that impression was something beyond the first time experiencing cold that year. 

 

We are far from perfect, but we are all working on getting better and learning new things!