We have a new tradition{this is our second year} in our family to celebrate March 4th. It's the only day of the year that is also a "command". So everyone in our family{all of my siblings, in-laws, nieces, nephews} set goals to work on to help us MARCH FORTH. It's a fun way to celebrate making goals and teach all of the children how to set goals.
We start off with marching music, playing a marching drum, eating footlong subs, tracing the kids feet on a big white tablecloth{getting it embrodiered, of course}, and then telling everyone what our new goals are going to be for the next year.
By the way, I'm so excited that in 10 years{or more} I will have a big white tablecloth with my children's feet all stitched on it. One foot for each child for each year! How cute to watch them grow!!
This year the really fun part is that someone will win our GOLDEN BOOT AWARD for accomplishing their goals. Yep...it's a GOLDEN BOOT with a little bit of cash inside for fun. I have been emailing with everyone in our family to find out exactly what they did to accomplish their goals. And over the last couple of days everyone has voted for the two people that they felt BEST accomplished their goals. So Fun!! Everyone did great!! I now have the winners and I have the boots ready to go to the GOLDEN BOOT recipients on MARCH FORTH.
{okay, so the boots look a little cheesy and yes they came from a garage sell for a buck and are spray painted gold...this isn't the GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS!}
Here are a few of the goals that were set AND accomplished!! Wa-Hoo!!
Journal everyday*get completely caught up on scrapbooks*read the entire Book of Mormon*send out Birthday cards to every member of their family{80 something cards}*learn how to ride a bike without training wheels*read all of the American Girl Doll books*complete Visiting Teaching 100%*lose 20 pounds*compete in a Ballroom Dance Competition*run two half marathons{this is the sister-in-law who inspired me to start running}*begin a Masters Program*learn alphabet*learn numbers*Charlie's goal was "NO MORE BLOWOUT DIAPERS" and I'm happy to report he accomplished his goal!!
We'll find out on MARCH FORTH who our GOLDEN BOOT AWARD WINNERS are for this year!! And we'll see what amazing goals everyone has set for this coming year!! So look for a post on March 4th!!
2 comments:
How fun! I have to tell you, though, how FUNNY this is to me. My sister Cami's birthday is on March 4th and I used to march around the house on her birthday, yelling "MARCH FOR CAMI!" "MARCH FOR CAMI!" and she would get SO mad! I even bought her a toy drum for Christmas last year and wrote "March 4 Cami" on it. It's still funny, after all these years!
We are very excited to hear the outcome of the votes!! It was so hard to vote, everyone did a great job and their were a lot of good goals!! I felt the pressure when i voted last week. We got our goals hung up on our wall so we can see all year long.
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