Live Life Together

Sleeping bags, popcorn, pillows, and the whole family in the living room to watch a movie.

One of the things I absolutely love about our family is that we can all be in the same room together for extended lengths of time. We enjoy family games, shooting pool together, and romping on the trampoline. Some of our favorite memories are the simplest... counting shooting stars, sitting around a campfire, or jamming out to one of our many music collections. We take time to just be together ~ to get to know each other.

Something I have noticed about our society is that families choose to be so secluded. Many familes in our society today don't enjoy doing things together. Every member of the family does his/her own thing. A recent commercial for a cellular phone company boasted "family time" as the dad and two kids being online in the same room. Bringing the family together?

Don't get me wrong... we have our personality differences... after all, we have 8 people living in this house. We disagree a lot. We are not "perfect little angels." In fact, we spend lots of time playing computer games, video games and watching TV. All those horrible things that cause brain cells to die!

Most importantly, we also love to turn all that off and eat dinner together, play board games, throw football, go camping, play kickball in the yard, listen to music, or go hiking/skating/climbing/biking outside. We just love being together. Growing together. Learning together. Laughing together. The perfect plan for the Family is to Live Life Together.