There's something about meeting regularly as a family that brings you together.

Not only in a practical way, which it does, you can talk about the calendar and your

schedules and your plans, but emotionally you can connect and you can share things you're

looking forward to or problems that you're having. And I didn't have this growing up.

We didn't meet regularly as a family, but it's something that we've started to do recently.

And it has been such a joy.

And today I'm going to share with you the simple outline that we follow for our family meeting.

And I hope it's helpful to you.

You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 152.

Much of our daily lives can be divided into two categories, work and play.

Simply put, that is where our life and our legacy take place.

This is a podcast all about learning to work and play well, which leads to a healthy soul and a fulfilling life. Listen. Every Sunday night, we have dinner together as a family,

and our kids know it's family meeting time. This is not something we

have done for very long. So I'm going to go ahead and give that disclaimer. We're kind of new at this,

but it's it's working well. We're kind of getting in the groove of it. And this is going to be a

pretty short and sweet episode. I just kind of want to tell you

the outline that we follow for our family meeting and tell you a few examples of what's happened

and kind of how it's been fun and helpful for us, even while our kids are little. And hopefully

it will just spark some creativity for you and your family or give you an

idea of how you could have a family meeting. I think most people think, oh, if we're going to

have a family meeting, you're expecting something bad to happen or to be said. It's like if a family

member dies or some issue comes up or something

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