Cassia: I want to do school on your computer.
Soren: I want to draw a shark. Then I want to go get ice cream.
Basia: Can I have two goals? I want to do an activity as a family, and also I want to have regular family time to play games and stuff.
Edison: I want to be a green goblin.
Zade: I want to go to Peter Piper Pizza. Then I want tacos. Then I want to eat lunch. Then nap. Then snack.
Tobias: I want to make a handprint.
Brishen: I want to see the new Star Wars movie.
Melani: That can't be your only goal, Brishen.
Brishen: I want to get at least a 95 in all my classes.
Jon: I want to pay all my shared ministries. (It's a church thing.)
Melani: I want to finalize the baby's adoption. I want to become a more chill mom. I want to go to the Grand Canyon. *
Brishen: Hey, if you want to go to the Grand Canyon, then that's one of my goals, too.
Zade: I want to eat ice cream with Soren!
Baby Roo: (assigned by mom) I want to become Asa Moore, and I want to be potty trained.
Melani: Ahhh! I don't want to have another one old enough to potty train already in 2015!
Edison: I will potty train Asa!
*I actually could go on for a long time about all my goals, but I didn't want my family's eyes to glaze over. I don't really need a new year to set new goals, but here are some more of my current goals.
--I want to simplify our schedule. I want to be home with the kids a lot. I want to have the wisdom to say no to activities that make us busy but do not have a great deal of value in the scheme of a life well lived.
--I want to learn more about saints and those who had great insight into living a holy life. I want to learn from them in an effort to emulate them and remember what is important. I want to separate what is important in this day and age and place from what is eternally important.
--I want to read more scripture in addition to devotional readings and daily Common Prayer readings.
--I want love to be my focus in life. I want to be open to see who God wants me to love at any given moment. I want to see those who are right in front of me and know better how to love them. I want to be ready and willing to step out of my comfort zone and love anyone God places before me, whether it be another child, a homeless person, a neighbor, a family member, or someone who really annoys me.
--I want to help guide my family to a different way of living, different from the American dream. I want to help our family cut back on media and consumerism as much as possible. I want to help my kids first truly love themselves, and then really care about each other above themselves so we can then go out and love the world. It has to start in our home.
--I want to pray the hours, even if only briefly remembering the different focuses at the different times of day. When Roo wakes me in the middle of the night, I want to remember to pray for those who are hurting in the night in any of a multitude of ways. I also want Roo to have the goal of sleeping through the night, but he's already in bed and forgot to make that goal. I especially want to get in the habit of improving my early evening prayers since that is when I am most often getting tired and unable to be a loving wife and mother for the last hours of the day,
--I want to study the fruits of the spirit and bring them into focus in my life and encourage the kids to do the same.
--I want to shop local as much as possible and try to end my addiction to Amazon's extreme convenience for a mom of many (I hate, hate, hate going to the store with kids in tow. I love, love, love 1-click shopping the second I remember I need something). I shudder to think of all the boxes that have been sent my way in the last few years.
--I want to learn how to best homeschool the whole crew.
--Of course there are the usual goals of becoming healthier as a family and living more frugally.
Are your eyes glazing over, yet? I thought so! I have lots of goals and truly want to work toward becoming a better person. It's too bad I have to make the same goals every day because I mess up every day. Maybe, just maybe, a year from now I will have moved an inch or two in a holier direction. I'm sure going to try!
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