Remember hiking or biking or doing other activities on a whim? Remember lazy weekend mornings spent lounging in bed? Remember the long, leisurely meals together with no bedtime or homework deadlines to interfere?

Remember how much time you invested in each other and thus your relationship, without even trying? When we are first together, it's effortless to spend time together, enjoying one another and building our lives together. There are spontaneous weekend adventures and unscheduled week nights. And vacations with just the two of us. We talk and dream and plan, and slowly our lives fill up with our dreams: careers get busier, we buy houses with exciting projects and then we enlarge our family. Our children are such miracles, and we happily rearrange our eating, sleeping and working schedules--our lives--to accommodate these incredible gifts.

And without even noticing it, our relationship can go on auto pilot. Gone are many of our connection times and activitie--replaced by child rearing, household routines, family times and, sometimes, even exhaustion. We are busy. And life is good.

We will get back to those special times for the two of us some day. Why delay any longer? We believe a relationship between a husband and wife is the cornerstone for your family. It is your connection, planning and dreaming that created the life and family you have now. It is your continued connection and planning together that will create your family’s future. Your shared plans are part of the attraction between you and your spouse. In order to keep that energy alive, you must stay connected--in your every day life, as you go about raising the kids, maintaining the house and advancing your career(s). How do you stay connected as a couple in a world of long work hour & time devoted to loving and playing with the kids, not to mention the daily household and life routines?

You do regular relationship & parenting maintenance. We maintain our cars. We maintain our houses and yards. We maintain our health. And yet many of us have never thought about maintaining our marriages and parenting skills. Working with us, you will have tools and perspective on how to easily maintain your marriage in the midst of your busy, filled lives. And we will provide you with tools on how to maintain your parenting skills too. We know that raising happy, responsible children makes it much easier to focus energy on your relationship. In our workshops and courses we teach a parenting style that brings happiness and calm to a home.

Are you ready to bring even more happiness into your marriage, your parenting and your life? Sign up for one of our workshops or contact us to see how we can bring more happiness to your marriage, your parenting and your life at 208-870-8000 or info@familybydesign.net.