New Year’s Resolutions

Over dinner the topic of New Year’s Resolutions surfaced with my children. Traditional resolutions usually are losing weight, beginning to exercise, or quitting something (such as smoking). I can only remember a handful of resolutions I made and I honestly lost interest in them quite rapidly.

Before this year I never discussed New Year’s Resolutions with my children. I wanted to approach resolutions in a way where my children have follow through and accountability – I did not just want them to make an individual resolution that they will forget about. If we made resolutions or goals as a family it will make us all accountable as a family and it will make our family stronger through working as a team to reach our goals.

We created our goals as a family and decided on the following:
•    Go to church 45 out of 52 weeks a year (we left wiggle room for illnesses)
•    Walk 1000 miles together as a family (we are marking daily miles walked on our calendar)
•    Do not eat meat on Friday
•    Take a family trip to a new destination (we tend to visit the same places over and over again)
•    Move (we are looking to relocate)

We are marking all of the progress of our goal attainment daily and weekly on our family calendar. I am confident that working together will assist us not only in growing closer as a family, but also it will teach our children the importance of follow through.

The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them (Proverbs 11:3).