New Years Resolution: Do Less

My chief New Years resolution for this year is to do less. It might sound a bit odd but I really feel that we did too much last year. Too much of my time with my children was spent helping them get ready for climbing, Boys Brigade, technicraft class, guitar lessons, unschoolers group and visits with friends, at the expense of time available for us to do things together: walks, bike rides, reading, talking.

This resolution won't be easy to achieve. Josiah is one weekly activity down this year because his technicraft classes have finished, but Tessa has the same number of outside activities as she had last year. She has decided not to continue with guitar lessons at present, but begins technicraft classes this year. What I am tentatively thinking is that I will try to keep every second weekend, on average, free of outside commitments, for us to do something together as a family, and that during the week I will try to limit each child (and myself) to one outside activity on top of the regular commitments of climbing, Boys Brigade, technicraft and unschoolers group. We'll just have to see how that goes. Unschoolers group is such a big outing (most of the day) that it might be best not to have an extra mid week activity on the weeks when we attend unschoolers group.

Progress on my other New Years resolution is not going well. I'm sure planning ahead is the key, but I don't like cooking and therefore the temptation to procrastinate is high.