I am a singer by nature. I sing daily, sometimes so much that my family asks me to hush. Music is simply my heart’s language. So, as I thought of what to post this week, I decided I wanted to share a Christmas song that is particularly meaningful to me. It’s called “Shine for Me […]
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7 Christ-Centered Christmas Quotes
In my first family home evening and family scripture study book, I had a whole month of FHE lessons and scriptures devoted to Christmas. It was great! The problem was that things went right over my kids’ heads since they were pretty young at the time. Book two was tailored to kids ages eight and […]
Quick Encouraging FHE Quote
Happy December! It’s a busy season, that’s for sure. I wanted to share a favorite quote to encourage you to keep your focus on your family this month and have good FHEs despite the busyness. After all, isn’t a good part of the intentions for this season to connect with your family and create family […]
3 Tips for Avoiding Christmas Chaos
I know. It’s still November and we just had Thanksgiving. Why are we talking about Christmas already? For those of you familiar with my FHEasy principles, you know I like to be ahead of my game. And, let’s face it, if we don’t approach the Christmas season knowing what we want to do and experience, […]
Favorite Thanksgiving Quotes
Below are seven of my favorite gratitude quotes for Thanksgiving week that are not Church related. Favorite Church-related thanksgiving quotes and scriptures are in FHEasy in the “Gratitude”, “Saint Patrick’s Day”, and “Thanksgiving” lessons. You can read one per day with your family along with your FHEasy scriptures for the day … or print them […]
Make Thanksgiving Shine
Living with an attitude of gratitude is encouraged by many leaders in the spiritual and personal success realms. In honor of Thanksgiving next week, I’ll share some favorite quotes on living with thanksgiving, but today I want to point out that Thanksgiving is couched between two of kids’ favorite holidays: Halloween and Christmas. How can […]
3 Tips for FHE on Halloween
Halloween is tomorrow! My kids have been looking forward to it for months. And it’s a little crazy around here. But FHE is FHE and this year it lands on Halloween. Now, normally, I don’t correlate my FHE lessons with Halloween. I mean, I guess I could kind of connect it to the idea of […]
FHEasy: 3×2 Ideas for the 24th of July
Pioneer Day is this week and there are some really neat things to talk about. LDS people have been given a legacy of faith from the pioneers and I am so grateful we have a day to remember them. I’m including three short videos that have leaders talking about pioneer day with some images in […]
Do you really have to do FHE on the 4th?
Happy Fourth of July! A big holiday like this begs the question: If our regular FHE time falls on a big family holiday, do we really have to do all the holiday things AND family home evening, too? I love this question because it invites some other thought-provoking questions. Have you set up your family […]
FHEasy for the Fourth of July
Next Monday is the fourth of July, so if you are a US citizen, now’s a good time to take a minute and think about your FHEasy plans. I have some ideas to share below, but before I forget, here’s last year’s post on one of my favorite “red, white, and blue” desserts: berries and […]