We’re a family, and as such, we’re in the business of awesomeness.
The Bennett's enjoy some quality time shooting and driving and flying and pinballing at the arcade!
As a couple, we’ve been diligent about protecting one night per week (usually around 4 hours) as a ‘date night’. It’s a time that we can look forward to in the busyness and business of the week to know we can relax and spend some quality time together. The activities are not always elaborate or even premeditated. In fact, last week, we decided to go get pizza and play arcade games at Bullwinkles. In many cases, we’ll go out for a leisurely dinner, or maybe a movie.
Heather flying WWII fighter planes, shooting down the enemy in near silence (the audio was broken)
Another thing that we’re getting better about inserting in our week is a “Family Meeting”. Some families use them as an opportunity to check in to connect, but in our case, it has become something more significant. Naturally we want to be in touch with where one another are at in every realm, but we also wanted to use the opportunity to give ourselves some purposeful direction that we can link arms in pursuing.
Lately, with the big changes and busy pace of life, we had missed a few of our meetings, and it had been reduced to a 5 minute check in about our upcoming week’s schedule. This last Sunday we took the time to re-articulate the framework of our weekly meetings. And, because I enjoy sharing and documenting our adventure, I’m going to post it here. Plus, in the case that something goes awry and we don’t have our notes with us, we can refer to this post as a reference to what we came up with.
As an aside, it’s worthy to note that it’s all too frequent that the important things in life get put on the backburner in order to handle the urgent stuff that comes up. If we all live in a reactive mode responding to the fires that pop up, how are we ever going to actualize the important things that we’ve all had on our list for so long and yet have made such little progress. This is one way that we’re working to bring the important things to the forefront in our relationship.
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