I was asked to give a presentation at a Relief Society meeting about Family Home Evening to give some tips and tricks for making it meaningful and easy with young kids. I thought I would share with you here what I shared with the sisters in my ward in case anyone from my ward didn’t […]
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One of my Facebook friends posted a link to this article called A Better Way to Say Sorry. With a two year old and a five year old at home apologizing is something that I find we are doing FREQUENTLY, so I decided to read the article. It was simple, but brilliant! Her intro – […]
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Learn about the real St. Patrick instead of leprechauns and rainbows for your St. Patrick’s Day!
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Lately we’ve been having issues in our family with respecting other people’s personal space and being kind to others. So I decided we needed to have an FHE lesson on respecting our bodies and other people’s bodies. I looked around the internet and didn’t find anything that quite fit what I was looking for so […]
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If you don’t want to read through my whole explanation of how this FHE lesson came to be, or my personal suggestions for making this a little more special feel free to click here to skip to where you can download the lesson outline and PowerPoint. I won’t be offended. Ok, well I might be offended, […]
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For Christmas this last year I put together 12 FHE lessons for my little sister’s family. I put together a lesson plan for each month with visual aids, recommended opening/closing hymns, an activity and a recommended treat (I couldn’t exactly put together 12 months of treats and hope they’d still be good at the end […]
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So, after I finally finished last week’s lesson for this week… I decided I wanted to do something else for FHE tonight 😛 General Conference is coming up this weekend and I wanted to talk to my sons about that to get them prepared. So I started on it this morning and came up with […]
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On Friday my little brother Cody opened up his mission call! I can’t believe he’s old enough to be going on a mission but I’m very excited for him. Since missions are obviously a topic that gets discussed a lot around our house right now I wanted to make it the topic of a Family […]
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As I was playing on Pinterest a few months ago I came across an idea for a Family Home Evening lesson using Angry Birds as a way to teach children to control their emotions. Since I have little children and a smartphone, Angry Birds is obviously something that gets played A LOT in our household […]
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