Family Home Evening...At our house!

Family Home Evening is something we try to do in our family each Monday night. Monday Night Football gets paused, phone calls go unanswered and we shut out the world for the night. Just the 4 of us.

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It is like a visit to the zoo.

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We gather around and the family room turns into the monkey house. Kids with more wiggles than they can control are all over the place! Sitting upside-down on the couch, jumping up with each answer to a question-complete with arm reaching to the sky and sould effects like "ooohh, ooohh, I know it!"

Tonight went like this:

For our activity, we made cookies. While the cookies were in the oven we ran upstairs to do a quick speed clean up of the play room before the timer went off. More toys were played with than put away.

Next, we gathered in the family room (see monkey house above) for the lesson given by Honey. We talked about prayer. It was a good lesson and reminded us that praying is a great way to show Heavenly Father our gratitude for all we have been given.

Then we were magically transported to the bear den at the zoo. Our cubs were all over the place again, only more like all-star wrestling than anything else. The funny part was whenever we asked them a question to see if they were listening, they got it right!

Tonight, we wrapped it up with a song: "Called to Serve". It was just like we were in a parade on the 24th of July!

I didn't have any cookies tonight, instead I ate the kids. I love their bellies and chewing on their cheeks is the best treat ever!

We aren't the most reverent, but hopefully when they get older they'll look back on our Family Home Evenings with fond memories and a little smile on their faces.

Each week, Honey and I just look at each other and say "Well, at least we tried."