Family Home Evening

We have a group of friends with whom we swap FHE ideas once a month. It's the only thing that has motivated me to actually do FHE, sorry to admit. Anyway, last night we had a fun game similar to Blues Clues, thanks to Liz, and then it was time for treats. (Ty and Ash, if you read this, I was totally thinking of Lydia after this happened.) Tate started crying when we led him to the kitchen because he wanted to go to bed. We couldn't argue with that! So I started to get him a book, but he cried and didn't even want a story. All he wanted were his two monkey blankets, lights out, and for me to leave! It was all very strange.

By the way, for the Blues Clues FHE game, you copy off 3 paw prints and have a little notepad handy. The lesson was on following Jesus' example. We read a story about a little girl that tried to do what Jesus would do for a whole morning. Then for the game, you have the kid(s) leave the room while you attach the paw prints to three items (such as a tithing slip, a coin, and a dollar bill), then the kid(s) come back in and finds the slips. They draw pictures of what the paws were attached to, and then guess how it applies to what Jesus wants us to do, like pay tithing. You keep going as much as you want with different items. I enjoyed it even if Tate was too young =)