In our household, we have 4 children under the age of 12.  Not surprisingly, we tend to stay busy with a large number of activities for the children, in addition to being fully involved in our local church.

One resource that we found particularly helpful was the book, The Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family by Patrick Lencioni.

Ironically, the book is about a family with 4 children who is trying to juggle a growing set of activities.

The family gets their lives in order by sitting down together and agreeing on a set of priorities and developing a game plan, centered around 3 key questions :
1) what makes your family unique?
2) what is your top priority, or rallying cry, right now?
3) how do you talk about and use the answer to these questions?

Slight variations to this approach can be used to solve family financial issues as well, as sitting down as a couple and planning/prioritizing how to spend the family's money is a similarly valuable exercise.

We highly recommend the book for any family that feels as if they are getting pulled in many different directions. 

To read more, visit Lencioni's website, which explains the concepts of the book in greater detail.