Building A Strong Family

Remember the days when families used to sit together as a family for dinner. Talk about their days and bring laughter into their lives. Our society has cut this out of their lives and it's sad. It's sad that families are so busy that they don't stop to appreciate what God has given them. A beautiful family that should be providing each other with unconditional love.

Bringing families close and together is a very important thing to the Mormon church, as it is to most religions. We implement something into our homes that strengthens our families and all it takes is one night a week.

It's called Family Home Evening. Monday nights, the majority of the members of the church are gathered together in their homes strengthening the bonds that God has given us with our families. It's a date and time that's a guarantee in each of our homes that we will be together as a family, without media, without stresses, just us, God and the ones we love.

The way Family Home Evening is typically organized is as follows:

Opening Prayer
Sing a church song together
Quick lesson on any of these topics
Family Activity
Special Treat
Closing Song
Closing Prayer

You don't have to be a member of the Mormon church to practice this. You don't have to even give lessons or sing songs. Just having a set day a week to do some family activity together will do amazing things. Even if it's just playing a board game and eating some ice cream afterwards.

Today is Monday, which means "Family Home Evening Time" We are going to be giving a lesson on Honesty. Our family activity will be planning what decorations we're going to do for Papa Norm's new studio at a nearby Retirement community. He should be arriving on the 1st and I already have the keys. So, we're going to have it decorated when he walk in, so it feels like home. Tonight we'll have Jayden draw some pictures and we'll plan out what we will need to go over and decorate - then next Monday night our activity will be doing the actual decorations. Our special treat will be Cookies N' Cream Pie.... mmmmmm I definitely can't wait for that!

I hope that I get some of you out there to join in with me. I'll try to update every Monday with what he have planned. If you have ideas for great lesson ideas or activities, or even a yummy treat recipe you'd like to share please leave a comment and share it. Remember, you don't have to be Mormon to have a Family Home Evening. It's the perfect opportunity to have your entire family together to talk about any family topics that need to be discussed also :)