Family Home Evening

Did you know that the church has updated its Family Home Evening website (or that they even had a site for Family Home Evening)??  I just came across it and it is fantastic for families with children of all ages.

Check out the website: http://www.lds.org/family/home-evening?lang=eng

There is a section for:
The Family Home Evening resource book
lessons by topic
Quick tips and ideas
Activity Ideas 

... and more... but you'll have to check it out yourself.


For example, they have one family activity called a "Buzz Activity" - this is to help improve communication, and to have discussions within your family.

Another example is "Let's go fly a Kite" - in which (you guessed it), it teaches you how to build and fly a kite, which you can do together as a family.

The best part about the website is the scrolling information at the top where it posts a number of "Our Most Memorable Family Home Evenings" by members of the church. Some of these give great ideas to do with your kids, which will hopefully be memorable for them as well.

I was excited to come across the site, and I look forward to using it in the future.

One of those Evenings...

Brody went to bed without a story tonight... I know he was trying to be mostly good, but things were not working out well between us. Here is the train of events as they occurred:

1. Brody snuck out of the house while I was vacuuming because he decided he wanted to go see the neighbour's dog. I couldn't find him for a while - gave me kind of a scare. I put him in a time out after talking to him about making sure I know where he is all the time, and not going outside alone.
2. While he was in a brief time out, he pooped in his underwear.
3. While I started supper, he decided to draw a picture. After starting on his paper, he discovered that the markers work on his bedspread. He drew a picture on his bedding, then left the markers with the lids off to continue to leak out onto his covers.
4. After trying hard to clean up the ink from his covers, I walk into the living room to find Brody covering Connor's mouth and nose (hard) with a bottle lid. Brody got another time out.
5. Supper finishes cooking, so I dish up Brody's plate, then call him to eat. He sits down to eat, forgets to use his fork, so goes to pick up a handful of rice with his hand, and immediately spills his dinner all over his clean P.J.s that I had just put on him.

"Slow breath in, slow breath out"...

I'm reminded of the book that I read to him before his nap earlier today.

"I'll love you forever
I'll like you for always
As long as I'm living
My baby you'll be"

72 Hour Kits (from A Mile in Our Shoes)

A friend of mine just posted an amazing post about 72 hour kits and what is needed, as well as some other  good ideas. It's a great reminder, and I wanted to share it around!

72 Hour Kits

Hope you find it helpful!