New Year's Goals

Well, the family meeting didn't go exactly as I imagined it would...all of us sitting cozily around the kitchen table over mugs of hot cocoa, confiding our aspirations in one another and challenging ourselves and each another to better ourselves in the new year.

It was a rather fragmented "conversation," if it can be called that at all. The boys were enthusiastic when I presented the idea of a family meeting in which we would each set a learning and a spiritual goal for ourselves (with some parental guidance). So enthusiastic, in fact, that we had to have the "meeting" right then and there...in the dark car on the way home from bowling. Having no actual goals for themselves (I thought that might happen), the boys agreed to let me and Steve help them choose some. And then they promptly started whining about our suggestions and coming up with their own ideas to do instead.

If it were up to Adam, 2010 would be the year he played Lego Star Wars on the Wii for 16 hours a day. (He's already dangerously close to meeting that goal this Christmas break.)

Andrew thought he might use this coming year to enhance his Lego-building and light saber skills.

Libby did not have an opinion, being asleep in a pack n play at the neighbors' house at the time.

Sadly for the children, our family is still a monarchy and not a democracy yet. While the littles are still little, King Dad and Queen Mom rule. So here are our actual goals for 2010.

Steve
Spiritual Goal: Listen to entire New Testament on CD at least once.
Learning Goal: Read 40 of the books from the list of classics he hasn't read yet.

Alison
Spiritual Goal: Follow (and complete) the "Read Through the Bible in a Year" plan.
Learning Goal: Learn to crochet. (Looking for a teacher! Let me know if it's you!)

Andrew
Spiritual Goal: Learn the ACTS (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) model of prayer and memorize the Lord's Prayer.
Learning Goal: Learn to tie shoes. (You'd have thought we were boiling him in oil to hear him complain about this one. Sheesh.)

Adam
Spiritual Goal: Read Bible stories each night at bedtime and learn them.
Learning Goal: Learn all the letters of the alphabet. Learn how old he is. (That would be 4.)

Libby
Spiritual Goal: Be able to sing "Jesus Loves Me" and learn to pray at meals with the family.
Learning Goal: Learn what "obey" means.

So Decreed by Royal Order.