Day 22- I'm grateful for Family Home Evening. It's something that we try to do without fail every week. It's very important to us as parents. The kids sometimes are into it and sometimes they just want to jump around and be crazy but I think they are always glad at the end of the lesson that we took time to spend just as a family, focus on each other.
Last nights lesson was about Thanksgiving and being grateful.
First we read a summary about how Thanksgiving came about.
Then we opened our gratitude bag. (We have been adding pieces of paper with things we are grateful for into a bag throughout this year during family home evening). So we read them and had some good laughs deciding who wrote what. Jared wrote on one, "I'm grateful for this egg." We are guessing it must have been Easter when he wrote it.
Then we sat in a circle and passed a stuffed animal around and took turns saying something nice about another person in the family and then giving them a turn.
It was pretty great last night. Jared got super sincere and was really getting into telling Wes and I how much he appreciates the things we do for him. (And I thought the kids didn't notice). Of course Novalee was just bouncing off the walls. But I think even Sadie could feel the extra special feelings of love in the room because she started going around giving everyone hugs and kisses. It was pretty great.
I'm grateful we take that time each week to try and strengthen our family and our testimonies. :)
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