FHE: Team Work

Today we talked about working together as a family and being a team and the benefits thereof.  We talked about how when we are all waiting for one person to be reverent before family prayer, that is not being a team.  We talked about when we clean up after ourselves, we are being a team.  My 5-year old got to play with a parachute in gym today and we talked about how everyone has to cooperate for it to be fun.  Also, it's not fun to play a board game unless everyone cooperates with the rules.  Then we all played Mario World 3D and practiced waiting for the slower people and playing as a team.

FHE: Nanie's Birthday

We made cards for Nanie's birthday this week.  We could have talked about kindness and giving the gift of making people feel loved and appreciated. (but we didn't) It was fun to do and it was fun to deliver them to Nanie after :)

FHE: Songs On the Go

Our foreign exchange student had a special dinner tonight to celebrate the end of her cross country season, so we had to drop her off at that, but it was a 20 minute drive each way, so that pretty much ate up all of our FHE time.  We decided to take turns choosing our favorite children's hymns to sing there and back. It was fun!  I think the kids sang better (i.e. tried to sing at all) than they normally do :)

Maybe I should have read them the verse about "a song of the heart is a prayer unto me", I think D&C 25:12