3 Meetings To Transform Your Family

With 6 kids under 12, there’s never a dull moment in our house.

But being busy can easily lead to parents becoming 2 ships just passing by.

Here’s our 3-step process to ensure we are organised, create time for each other and build the family we always dreamed of:

Are you organised with work, but then forgot to tell your spouse about a calendar change?

Do you make time for the kids but then find your spouse asleep by the time you go to bed?

Or your family is heading in a direction you never planned for?

You’re not alone.

We've experienced all of it.

To change it, we booked in time to sit down with our diaries. But only to find that we had not had a date night in weeks.

Or we would sit on the couch in the evening to spend time together and start planning kids’ play dates instead.

It didn't work.

That's when we came up with the idea of creating 3 separate times for each other during the week.

1. Planning meeting

2. Date night

3. Time to talk about our family, our needs and our wishes for the future.

Scheduling these three things into our diary has changed everything.

1. The Planning Meeting

We sit down with our diaries and plan out the next 7-14 days.

- family outings

- sport activities

- kids' play dates

- birthday parties

- vet appointments

- extraordinary work meetings

The stuff that often causes friction when you don’t communicate it.

2. The Date Night

Time just for us.

Sure going out for a meal is amazing, but we only manage that twice per year.

But that doesn't mean you can't spend quality time together.

Watch a movie, cook together or just snuggle up on the sofa with some music.

Just time as a couple.

3. The Date Walk (a strategic/broader talk)

With life flying by at 200mph it's easy to blink and 6 months have passed by.

We have a clear vision of who we want to become and what type of family we want to create.

Our weekly walks allow us to reflect, plan and dream.

Our date walk is the most recent addition to our time together and it's been amazing.

It's different to planning the day-to-day and different to spending time as a couple.

It's about becoming intentional with that magic unit we call our family.

I’m curious, what methods have you found to help you as a couple and as parents to stay organized and happy?