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Posted in Family, Family Home Evening, Family Home Evening, Gluten Free, Holidays on Apr 17th, 2011
Colin’s mother’s family has started holding their annual family reunion on Easter weekend. I really like the idea of helping the holiday to be special by getting together and connecting as a family. This year we’ve got fancy dinners and traditional Cuban food and an easter egg hunt and all kinds of fun planned. I’ve [...]
Posted in Family, Family Home Evening, Kids on Sep 19th, 2010
Last Monday for Family Home Evening we had a lesson about prophets and General Conference. Keep in mind that our kids are 1, 3, and 5 years old, so our lessons are always quick and interactive. Here’s what we did: Opening Song: Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam (Heidi can enthusiastically say “BEAM!” now, so [...]
Posted in Family Home Evening on Jul 14th, 2008
Today we’re doing a Love At Home lesson. I chose this one because Colin reminded me that today is the anniversary of our first date. Cute, huh? So, here’s the plan for the lesson (mostly from the FHE Resource Manual lesson on the subject). Tell the children that you are going to pretend that a [...]
Posted in Family Home Evening on Jul 7th, 2008
Colin did our FHE lesson tonight–he put up a slide show of pictures of our family on the TV for us to watch. Maggie excitedly screamed out the names of everyone she recognized in the pictures, including herself. There were some pictures of the Savior mixed in, and every time Maggie sees a picture of [...]
Posted in Family Home Evening, Primary, Religion/Church on Apr 22nd, 2008
Image via Wikipedia Last night we didn’t do my Repentance lesson for FHE because I’d forgotten that we’d invited the missionaries over to teach the lesson! They came over to teach us a lesson on the Preach My Gospel book that they use to help them learn to be better missionaries. I’ve been trying to [...]
Posted in Family Home Evening on Apr 20th, 2008
Tomorrow, according to my Q2 FHE Plan, we’re doing an FHE on Repentance. Here’s the results of my online research and my own brainstorming of FHE lesson ideas on this topic: Sharing Time ideas on Repentance and more Sharing Time ideas on Repentance Coloring picture Jonah Repents Roller-box story about a boy repenting for taking [...]
Posted in Family Home Evening on Apr 7th, 2008
Hey! I’m trying to figure out how to do a Family Home Evening on this month’s First Presidency Message in the Ensign here. In it, President Monson tells us that “the three pieces of your treasure map to guide you to eternal happiness” are: “Learn from the past. Prepare for the future. Live in the [...]
Posted in Home, Religion/Church on Apr 2nd, 2007
While I was looking for ideas for ways to prepare for General Conference, I discovered Family Home Evening (FHE) resources. Church leaders have instructed members to set aside Monday night as "family home evening." This is a time for families to study the gospel together and to do other activities that strengthen the family spiritually, [...]