Jennifer here to share with you about the importance of goal setting for your family. While we were compensated to write this post, all opinions remain our own.
My kids are 18 and 15. It seems like just yesterday that I was holding them in my arms, cuddling their baby soft skin, and inhaling that wonderful baby smell. However, babies grow up and families sometimes move apart. For me, that is just not acceptable — the moving apart portion. My husband and I are working on setting some family goals that will help us stay close even when our kids decide it’s time to move out and move on.
Spend quality time together
It is vitally important to spend quality time together. This will keep each other close, especially when they know that you as a parent, value the time you spend with them. Our goal is to go on at least 2 or 3 trips per year, with one of those being an extended trip. Now, if you cannot get away like that, find ways that you can spend time together. Go to the park, go out to dinner, create a staycation at home.
Make your faith important
One goal that has helped our family more than anything is making our faith the most important thing. Trusting God with everything that goes on in our life helps to keep us calm and focused when life throws us curveballs.
Find time to set goals
Goal setting is a goal that we set for ourselves each year. We sit down as a family and plan out some things we want to accomplish during the year. This past year we set these goals and I am proud to say that we accomplished them all
- Plan a trip to Florida
- Graduate our son from high school
- Teach our daughter to play drums
- Renew our wedding vows (this will be finalized in December)
Do you set family goals? If not, it’s high time to start!
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This year we hope to help a family at Christmas!
Thanks for the giveaway…our goal is to have an Xmas holiday ski trip / reunion with our extended family for the first time in many years.
Eat dinner together.
Thanks for the contest.
We want to try and put more money away each pay period.
Making kindness and love a priority for ourselves and those in our lives.
One family goal we want to accomplish this year is to get our Christmas shopping completed by early December as opposed to still shopping the week of Christmas.
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I would love to organize a hike over 60 miles that would take several days of camping. I think that is adventurous and a great way to get closer to my family members.
My goal is to visit my 2 daughters and their families that live out of state and to see my grandchildren. Thanks for having this contest.
One goal we have is to take a family trip to visit relatives in Arizona for the holidays.
I would like to go back home to visit my family.
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Trying to spend more quality time together!
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We hope to save enough money to buy our own has this coming year.
To spend more time for family game nights
To save enough money to go on vacation next year
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Our family goal is to have all the credit cards paid off by the end of the year, and to start a savings account for a trip to Disney.
To be debt free!
To visit out of state family that we haven’t seen in years
We want to be able to get all 6 of us to go away for a weekend together. Something keeps coming up to prevent all of us from going.
we would like to go on a road trip
Goal this year–be ready for holidays before the day of
Our goal is to try to not be so busy all the time
This year I home to attempt to get my boys organized – so they can do a few things for themselves.
Try to share more family dinners. It seems like we’re all so busy with our own things these days.
Our plan is get ready for christmas earlier this year
Make more homemade meals!
Our goal is to have a less hectic fall/winter.
My family goal is to do more extended family dinners.
My family goal is to take more weekend trips. We are doing pretty good so far.
I want our family to go biking or hiking at least twice a month. Or we can play in the snow during the winter.
less arguing! and to go on a vacation
we want to go camping one last time
getting out of debt
Our Family goals are to spend more time with each other and our immediate and extended families.
My biggest goal is being able to go see my family in TX for Christmas.
Our goals is to spend more time unplugged
Our goal is to get healthier before the year is over. That way, we can begin 2014 on a healthy note.
We are working to reduce our granddaughter’s college debt.
To put away enough money to purchase a new home.
To do active activities together
to spend more time with loved ones
To save up as much as I can to have a decent holiday season.
To teach our kids to keep their hands to themselves, not hitting eachother!
One goal is to find a a short vacation.
we want to buy a house
move to a bigger house!
We would like to become more active.
Our goal is to stay healthy in the coming year.
To spend the holidays together.
I hope to have a family vacation with just the 4 of us 🙂
I have adult kids, teens and grandkids and we are trying to go on a group/ family vacation. Three problems. Deciding where to go, deciding the date and saving money.
We are hoping that our adoption goes as smoothly as the last so that we can expand our family.
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To take the time to take more pictures together.
I would love to get the garage cleaned up and organized, and have a garage sale.
To save up enough money to visit relatives across the state.
To work in the shelter and feed the family
buy a new house
We are always cooped up in the house and we have all decided we are going to start going outdoors on the weekend and find family events we can all do together to spend more time enjoying each other in another light..sunlight! =)
We’ve had a goal this year to serve one Saturday a month in our church’s inner city ministry.
Our goal is to go on a cruise in the next year. It’s something we’ve always talked about but have never planned or done. Making it a goal is a great way to hopefully achieve this next year!
My goal is for all of us to eat healthier.
Our family goal is to eat healthier and have fun doing it!
Take my son to Six Flags.
visit the relatives more, difficult them being out of state now
Getting some money into savings.
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One family goal I have for this year is to be able to have more dinners together as a family.
To finish remodeling the kitchen
I’d like my family to experience daily gratefulness.
Our goal is to get the house decluttered. We have way too much stuff for a small space. Thank you!
To get away for a family vacation.
We want to buy a new house
We are moving to a new state in less than 2 weeks, so getting through the move, unpacking and organizing is the ultimate goal of this year; we are going to be spending LOTS more time together through this move, so that’s an added benefit!
organizing the entire house and spending more time together
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Our family goal is to get healthier, and lose weight.
For all of us to be together more!
To communicate better and be more patient with each other!
We want to start all of our seeds indoors on time this year, in January!
To get out of debt!
To exercise more as a family
We would like to get all our bills paid and have some money in a
savings account.
I would love for my kids to pick up their own toys.
Share more meals together – thank you.
go to six flags
every one at my house always grabs their supper plate and heads in different directions, so my goal is that we all sit down at the table together.
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One goal our family has that we’d all like to achieve this year is to buy a new home.
We hope to take a family vacation.
I want to get some more remodeling done on our house
My goal is to survive Christmas without getting into debt.
My goal is to have a wonderful Christmas with my husband (and stepson, if he earns it) in California this year.
Get that unwanted person out of my life
We want to save money for a vacation.
One family goal is to do an art project together as a team.
Save money and go out more.
My youngest son graduates this year so the goal is to graduate without complications!!
Go on a family vacation
We would like to get some home improvements done.
We want to visit Yellowstone together.
I would like to have more relaxing time with the family. We are always in such a rush to get to our next activity.
One goal we have it to clear all clutter from our home, out of each and every room, and donate all the unused toys, clothes, and dishware to charity. Thanks.
I hope it happens sooner but I have a goal of getting a new job within the next few weeks.
My goal for my family this year would be to spend a lot more quality time together!
Eat as many dinners together as possible.
I’d really love to spend more time with my family doing fun things. Seems like our kids are growing up way to quick.
I want to clean out the garage
Having a great first Christmas with our soon to be here great granddaughter
My family goal is to be debt free
we spend so much time worrying about money and bills, we never get to have a good time.
A debt free Christmas
One goal is to take some kind of a trip everryone will enjoy and remember as a great time.
We are saving for a trip to Busch Garden’s Williamsburg and Colonial Williamsburg. Its our favorite spot on Earth and we haven’t been in a very very long time.
We are saving for a trip to Disney World as a family.
One of our family goals this year is to teach our kids to be more independent. How to do their own laundry, cook more types of foods, and how to keep their rooms and bathroom clean all on their own.
One goal I have for my family this year is to get my boys to realize how important family is and the bickering between them to lesson (I would love to say stop, however, they are siblings and boys…just keeping it real)
I want to have a family portrait taken this year. It’s been many years since we’ve done this.
I would love to spend more time together and less time on electronics!
i wanna go on a vacation
A family goal of ours is to finish off some of the unfinished area in our basement this year.
Start putting money away for a trip to Norway
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I am hoping and hoping that we can move – soon
eat dinners at the table together more often
Our goal is to go on vacation
We want to travel somewhere warm for the holidays.
Our family goal is to try and make it to Disney World early 2014
I want us to make it through our first year of homeschool sane 🙂
We want to get our rental house fixed up and ready to be sold!
m,oving across the USA
I would like us to accomplish our family goal of giving one another only homemade gifts for Christmas this year!
Moving is our big goal for the year!
Are Goal Is To Take A Road Trip To Chicago!
My goal is to keep everyone healthy.
Learn archery together
get all my bills paid on time with no late fees
We would like to get a new home.
study more and get more organized.
Our family goal is to finish the basement and plan a vacation for next year without going broke!
My goal is to get us a new clothes dryer sometime in the next 6 to 8 months, if our old one lasts that long.
Everyone together at home at least once this year
To organize our basement and sell or giveaway the things we do not need
To clean out the garage.
One family goal is to go visit family in Mexico , Thank you !
I would like to make it home a few times before the year is out, we are all home sick and a nice visit would help
One family goal is to transition my children from public school to home schooling this year.
I want to get my 2 year old (3 in December) daughter potty trained by the end of the year. She’s being a bit stubborn, but I think we can do it.
one family goal is to find a new house! would love that!
my goal is to go away together as a family
Our main goal is spending more time together doing simple things such as walks outdoors and playing board games.
to eat right, exercise more during the holiday season!
My family wants to buy a new house this year.
Our family goal is to is to work together to finish our basement into a playroom and computer room.
Our family goal is to spend more quality time together.
Our goal us to move to a new House before the year ends.
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Spending time with the grandchildren and helping the families each weekend with the babies which involves outings and trips. Vacation planning ahead of time.
I don’t really have a goal to accomplish this year but we are working on a long term goal for 2014. I am planning to take my grandsons to Disney in either the early spring or late fall of 2014. Since, most likely this will be the first and only time I get to take them I want them to be old enough to remember and enjoy it, but young enough for it to be magical and adventurous.
Plan a vacation six months in advance instead of six weeks
We want to spend a month living on an island next summer but we have to spend our weekends remodeling and getting the house ready for us to stay in it.
We’d like to visit with the grandparents during the holidays.
Goal to accomplish this year: being able to afford the Christmas holiday