spend more quality time with my family

I’m seeing alot more of my family and getting alot more out of their company. Getting to know my siblings better as young adults and repairing and strengthening bonds with my mum.

I’ve taken a job which allows me to work from home and have 3 days off a week, this should help me to continue to priorotise spending quality time with my family and to do so more regularly, at a time when they need me most.

In resigning from my work and returning to study/complete my teaching degree, I am ‘killing two birds with the one stone’... more than two birds actually…
I am finding that I am able to play with my daughter a lot more, and then spend time at night with hubbie without feeling so deflated from work.
My daughter is responding to this with leaps and bounds, and is a lot more receptive to cuddles and kisses and tickles etc. It makes being a mum more joyful.

I have been home for 3 weeks or so now over christmas and spent a lot of time chilling with the family.

I spent a lovely afternoon with my sister making chocolates and jewellery as little gifts for her friends- we both really enjoyed it.

Spent a few days with my Gran, cooking for her, taking her out and giving her massages.

Spent a weekend with my aunt, uncle and cousin, chilling out and walking the dog and chatting.

Lovely :)

I’m going home for a month over Christmas before I go off travelling, and although we will spend alot of time together it’s hard to get more than a few minutes one on one in a family of six. So I’m going to ask each of them to pick a day for us to have together and an activity they would most like to do and go and do that.

We’ve been spending a lot of time together, altho I’m not sure I’d classify it as ‘quality’ time. It’s so hard to get hubby and daughter “unplugged” to do much of anything. Sometimes I miss the days when we didn’t have computers, a tv in nearly every room, video games and cell phones. Every idea I come up with they think it’s ‘boring’. Any suggestions? In case it helps my daughter is 12 and hubby is the outdoorsy 35 year old who suddenly wants to be a teen again and playing video games and chatting on the computer all the time.

Miscarrying made me realize something.. I have a loving family and even tho I want to concieve again, I want to start spending more quality time with the daughter I already have and with my hubby who loves me very much and only wants the best for our family.

I have spent many quality moments with my family this year and I just put this goal on here because it was a resolution. I will of course keep spending quality time with my family forever.

There has always been a huge wall that spearates me from the rest of my other family members. This really makes me sad, or sometimes, even depresses me. People get older, circumstances change, and time can never be reversed. I just hope that someday, I’ll have enough strength to finally reconcile my relationship with them.

Yesterday my DH and I were both off from work and spent the day together. We had to pick DS up from Academic Team practice after school and we decided that we were going to take him fishing. We got all of the stuff together and picked him up and went straight to the lake. We spent about three nice hours fishing and had a really great time. I love being spontanious.