Mission Impossible?

Today is a blog hop!  I love blog hops, because this is where I get to read about you!  I would just post the giveaway, and then the linky, but because I actually did this one...you get to hear from me too!

When the topic for this blog hop was suggested, I was excited but also a bit wary.  My family does not have a mission statement, and we are not really very "typical" in things.  Often we do things a bit different than everyone else.  We may have done this differently than others, but probably got to the same place as you...but, I am going to show you how we got to where we are with ours.

I LOVE brain maps.  I need to have a list, and visual lists are always wonderful. 

I had everyone make a big bubble of things that we do as a family.

Some of the bubbles include:

Work
Preparedness
Time as a Family
Outdoors

Then after we had a few bubbles that are main things that we do as a family, we added specifics.  For example:

Under the Outdoors bubble, we put things like Gardening, Hiking, Camping. 

These bubbles and specifics created this:

Simple?  Yes, but it totally describes our family.  I am going to get it done on some vinyl so that we can place it alongside our family picture.  I think this would be great in our living room. 


Join us for more at the other amazing blogs that are participating.  There are some wonderful ideas on each one.  Don't forget to scroll down and enter the giveaway too.  The "instructions" for linking are below.   

Cocoa at Chocolate on my Cranium
Jocelyn at We Talk of Christ, We Rejoice in Christ
Shannon at The Redheaded Hostess

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Now I want to read about you.  Do you have a family mission statement?  Write a blog post telling us about it, then link it here. You don't just have to link about a mission statement though...we would love to read about any part of the Family Proclamation, so feel free to link up anything you have written on it.   Please be sure to use the link to your post not to your blog's home page. This linky will be up on all four blogs but you only have to enter your post once. It will automatically show up on the other blogs as well.  Super easy!

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Here is today's prize...

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