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 […]
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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, […]
Dealing with a “Faith Crisis”
As Thanksgiving comes up, I’ve been thinking about things I’m grateful for and then for some reason, I thought of a time when I was hearing that I should be grateful for the gospel, but I really wasn’t. At the time, “the gospel” and “the Church” were center points of a lot of concerns I […]
Dreams Do Come True!
Tomorrow, November 8, 2016, FHEasy will be officially published. I want to take this opportunity to say this: DREAMS COME TRUE!!! With a clear goal, lots of support, patience, persistence, focus, inspiration, and consistent work, FHEasy has gone from a thought to a reality. Serving people through the use of FHEasy is one of my […]
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 […]
Sunday-Sundae Object Lesson
Today I want to share with you a fun object lesson that I use in FHEasy in the “Sabbath Day Observance” lesson: making a yummy sundae (BTW – This activity was adapted from Richard R. Eubank’s book Is There an Object to Your Lesson?, page 66.) Set out a couple flavors of ice cream and […]
Quick FHE Conference Followup
Wow! What an amazing conference! For the FHE following conference we simply talked about what stood out to us as we watched conference. My two older girls and my husband all talked about Carl Cook’s story about his grandpa hollering, “Per ‘er in compound, Dorothy!” They remembered the visual of the gears working together. I […]
Consistency Counts!
As all parents know, real life happens. And it happened to us last week. My youngest daughter had a fever, my middle daughter felt sick to her stomach, my husband was outside trying to get a bunch of work done, we were a little late with dinner … and it was family home evening! It […]
How to Get Confident about FHE
This is the third post in a series about common challenges with FHE: Time issues, Mood issues, and now the issue of getting to family night and not knowing what to do. NOT KNOWING WHAT TO DO Wow. This is a hard one to face at family home evening time, but actually an easy one […]
FHE: Mood Issues
Is anyone in your family ever tired and grumpy right when family home evening is supposed to start? Or do you have a mix of tired adults and wired little ones? Whatever the case is at your house, one thing’s certain: everyone’s mood affects how family home evening unfolds. You can be a powerful influence […]