Simplify your life {Week 3: Creating Mission Statements}

Hey Girlfriends I'm BACKKKKKKKKKKKKK

I'm excited to be blogging again. For something that is very new to me, I really enjoy it! It's nice to be able to doing something just for ME. Plus this blog has nothing DIRECTLY to do with my job.

So here is my catch up to Week 3.

Mr Football and I actually did this challenge during Week 3 whilst travelling to a very close friend's 40th birthday party that was a 6 hour drive!!! So about 3 hours into the drive I whipped out my Week 3 print out and we talked about the questions.

We had such an honest chat about what we want our little family to be and how we want to be viewed as a family. Now this might sound a tad snobby but we little in a small community (2500 people) and we both have jobs where most of the town knows us (I'm the Kinder Teacher/ Assistant Principal and he is the Real Estate Agent). To us it is important that the people in our community view our family in a certain way.

Here are our answers:-

1.What are some adjectives you would use to describe yourself? each other family member?
Adjectives for ME - sexy (We were Miss L free that weekend so I think this was a come on baby adjective hehehe) intelligent, strong, loving, heart on your sleeve, compassionate, semi stubborn, passionate, juggler, great mum, MY wife, funny.
Adjectives for Mr Football - passionate, strong, great dad, leader, talkative, intelligent, stubborn even when wrong, focused, determined, athletic, HOT (sizzle sizzle sizzle)
Adjectives for Miss L - loving, funny, gorgeous, caring, so smart (I know its a parent right to say their child is the smartest child god ever shovelled guts into but Miss L really is a smart cookie, her languauge skills amaze me everyday!!!) compassionate, friendly, leader, imaginative, shoe lover just like her mummy!!!!

2. What is important to us? What do we value?
Each other, love, happiness, health.

3. What kind of relationships do we want to have –
with each other? loving, an evolving love that carries us to a blissful old age, open honest friendship, open communication, more spontanious adventures.

with our friends? open honest friendship, We want a close group of real friends that we will remain friends with when we are old, grey, wrinkley and our cherubs have grown up into the gorgeous adults we hope for. Friends that accept us for who we are now, next year, in ten years. Friends that see us at our best and still love us when we are at our worst.

with our neighbours? Just as we have it. We wave, smile, have a polite chat across the front fence and keep a quiet eye on each others house but not in each face. A respectful neighbour friendship.

with the wider world / community? To be respected, to viewed as a friendly, loving family.

4. How do we act with each other?
how do we speak? Usually nice, repectful, loving but when we are tried, stressed and frustrated we take it out on each other and we can be quiet harsh, snappy and very blunt.

treat each other? We work in a partnership, in the mornings we have a routine we have just fallen into where one makes the coffees while the other is getting Miss L on the toilet etc We know we have to do this if our family is going to work as a unit especially with both of us working full time plus dealing with Miss L's multiple allergies we need each other to watch what she eats, read food labels and cook Miss L friendly foods.

react to others? we are supportive. This week Mr Football found out before I did some very tragic news. He knew I couldn't cope very well with the news, he dropped everything at work - found me at school and re organised my day then told me. He has been my tower of strength. It just shows that in the times of absolute need we there for each other.

5. Are there things we currently do that we wish to change?
Find the time to have date nights, be more spontanious, be better with our money.

6. Are there things we see other families do or how they behave that we would like to have in our home life?
Not really

7. If people talked about our family how would we want them to describe us?
We want them to think of us as the family they want to be. We love each other deeply, we have fun together, Miss L is always dressed nicely, we can afford to put her in whatever classes she wants swimming lessons, kinder gym etc, we have nice cars, a lovely house and great jobs.

8. If you could create a perfect day what would it include?
All 3 in the bed, Coffee and the Sunday paper whilst in bed, a yummy breakfast down the street, a fun play activity with Miss L, picnic lunch with friends and their kids, Miss L has a sleep (without the I'm not going for a sleep or rest mummy) some mummy and daddy love, cooking with Miss L, a delious meal together, easy bathtime, Miss L willingly goes to her bed and quickly falls asleep, Mr Football and I watch a movie together on the couch with cinema popcorn, coke and chocolate then to fall a sleep in a big king size comfy bed spooned together.

9. We are most happy when ________.
When we are together and we have no pressure to do anything or be anywhere!!!

10. What kind of family do you want to be?
A happy family, a family other want to be and a family you want to be friends with!!!

One final part of our family mission statement is that everyday you must tell each family member you love them and we never go to bed angry with each other - we never know what might happen tomorrow.


Funny that a pair of really nice shoes make us feel good in our heads - at the extreme opposite end of our bodies.  ~Levende Waters

I love that quote, until next time
xox

What Happened??? M.I.A Blog Posts!!!

OMG where has the last 5 blog posts gone????
That's right I had to go back to work. My beautiful semi balanced life of mum, wife, me, newbie blogger, chef, gym bunny, woman who has time to be crafty, researcher of Miss L friendly food etc etc etc is M.I.A. Within one week of being back at work - I'm back to my old ways!!!
I feel like work is my addiction and I'm having a relaps.
I know I really LOVE my job and I feel half guility that I love it so much but the other half of me doesn't feel guility at all. Some people never find a job they love - I am one of the lucky few.
Now I'm not making any excuses for my job or for the passion I have for it but ohhhhh I love doing teacher things - See total addiction!!!!!!!
Like an addiction I know I need to change but how do I go about that?????
After a LOT of though and chats with friends and colleagues I have come up with a plan!!!!
I started this challenge because I wanted to find BALANCE in my life and by the end of year I'm going to get it!!!!!!!!!!!
So the new plan is this!!!!
1. Complete the challenges I have missed.
2. To catch up I will need to do 2 challenges a week for about 6 weeks!!!!
3. Use my friends to remind me about my challenges and to check up on my posts - Carlotta and Mrs P this is your job!!!!
4. I use a timetable to rule my school day, I can do the same at home. I am going to "timetable" blogging time - Mr Football is going to crack up at this one.
5. Order my special daily reminder of my goal - BALANCE. I will reveal this later when I get it - it is AWESOME!!!!!
 and number 6

  6. Look for rainbows - its my motto for the year!!!!!! There is something good in every situation, you just need to be a positive person to find it :)

So until next time
xoxo