As Thanksgiving comes up, I’ve been thinking about things I’m grateful for and then for some reason, I thought of a time when I was hearing that I should be grateful for the gospel, but I really wasn’t. At the time, “the gospel” and “the Church” were center points of a lot of concerns I […]
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Make Thanksgiving Shine
Living with an attitude of gratitude is encouraged by many leaders in the spiritual and personal success realms. In honor of Thanksgiving next week, I’ll share some favorite quotes on living with thanksgiving, but today I want to point out that Thanksgiving is couched between two of kids’ favorite holidays: Halloween and Christmas. How can […]
Dreams Do Come True!
Tomorrow, November 8, 2016, FHEasy will be officially published. I want to take this opportunity to say this: DREAMS COME TRUE!!! With a clear goal, lots of support, patience, persistence, focus, inspiration, and consistent work, FHEasy has gone from a thought to a reality. Serving people through the use of FHEasy is one of my […]
3 Tips for FHE on Halloween
Halloween is tomorrow! My kids have been looking forward to it for months. And it’s a little crazy around here. But FHE is FHE and this year it lands on Halloween. Now, normally, I don’t correlate my FHE lessons with Halloween. I mean, I guess I could kind of connect it to the idea of […]
FHEasy’s in the Warehouse!
Hi, there! Just a quick post to share that FHEasy is now at Cedar Fort’s warehouse. Also, someone told me that the books they pre-ordered arrived today even though official publication isn’t till November 8th. So, please sign up for the free lesson on this website if you haven’t already and check out the format. […]
Sunday-Sundae Object Lesson
Today I want to share with you a fun object lesson that I use in FHEasy in the “Sabbath Day Observance” lesson: making a yummy sundae (BTW – This activity was adapted from Richard R. Eubank’s book Is There an Object to Your Lesson?, page 66.) Set out a couple flavors of ice cream and […]
Quick FHE Conference Followup
Wow! What an amazing conference! For the FHE following conference we simply talked about what stood out to us as we watched conference. My two older girls and my husband all talked about Carl Cook’s story about his grandpa hollering, “Per ‘er in compound, Dorothy!” They remembered the visual of the gears working together. I […]
Consistency Counts!
As all parents know, real life happens. And it happened to us last week. My youngest daughter had a fever, my middle daughter felt sick to her stomach, my husband was outside trying to get a bunch of work done, we were a little late with dinner … and it was family home evening! It […]
Conference FHEasy Ideas
General Conference starts tomorrow! Our family has been talking about it all week. We pulled out the Church leaders’ pictures from the last conference Ensign and taped them on the wall and we’ve been going over names and things we know about some of the leaders. As usual, we did an FHEasy lesson on Monday […]
How to Get Confident about FHE
This is the third post in a series about common challenges with FHE: Time issues, Mood issues, and now the issue of getting to family night and not knowing what to do. NOT KNOWING WHAT TO DO Wow. This is a hard one to face at family home evening time, but actually an easy one […]