Week 3 of Simplify Your Life was about coming up with a family motto, creed, vision or statement. We came up with Why not laugh? kind of by accident and a bit flippantly but it’s grown on us all. It started on the way to swimming this morning when I mentioned this week’s task in the car. Dave immediately scoffed and made a joke and then said, “Sorry, I shouldn’t laugh.” Lillian piped up from the back, “Why not laugh?” and we both said hey, that’s a pretty good statement actually! Humour was number 4 on my list of values and laughing is certainly important to us as a family.
In Deb’s post she lists a series of questions to discuss as a family to help come up with ideas for the statement. We had a chat tonight while Dave was cooking dinner and I thought I’d share some of Lillian’s answers (she’s four and a half.)
What is important to us? What do we value?
Lillian said that cleaning the bathroom was important to her. We said sorry we’re letting you down there.
Are there things we see other families do or how they behave that we would like to have in our home life?
Have dessert every night. Eat choc-chip cookies every day. Have toys in my bedroom. Does this mean we’re going to do this now?
If people talked about our family how would we want them to describe us?
We’re always happy and draw love hearts every day. Always friendly all the time even to a stranger and say hello, what’s your name? (I love this answer.)
As a family we are at our best when we ______ .
When we work together.
If you could create a perfect day what would it include?
Playing with friends. Playing soccer. Lots of finger painting. Eating choc chip cookies.
We are most happy when ________.
On my birthday.
So I think Why not laugh? fits her answers well. I’m going to print this out and stick it somewhere to remind us all.
