I let the kids stay up until midnight. We watched Final Fantasy: The Spirits within. My hope and intent was to increase their imaginations. Lena actually asked a lot of questions like what Fantasy had to do with it, and when I explained she commented that she was suprised that it was so futuristic. I told her that was just how ideas are created in a mind type. Some imagine stories long ago, some in the distant future, but some imagine them right now.
Yesterday, for Family Home Evening, we discussed how families are like Smoothies, and have essential parts, but that success is not necessarily achieved by using parts that seem best on their own. Then, the kids had a smoothie competition, making their own "blended families" ha ha ha, it waa fun.
Sister Hirschi brought over a gift that the kids loved. It was a picture book of rhyming text of ancient scripture called, "The Voice From the Dust" the older kids had a blast just creating their own stories from the pictures. I thought, so much of the work was already done, I can just write the songs and sing the stories to my babies! An awesome gift!
The best of all was a plate of homemade chocolates! They were amazing both to look at and to eat. I had tried to make candies, but failed. She definitely has a talent there. I recall going to a chocolate shop when I visited Robert to learn to make the little signatures on chocolates to tell them apart when making an assorted box.
I gave Brandall assorted chocolates for Christmas.
And that is all I have to say right now. Happy New Year! Maybe this year will he THE Year for me. Who knows?
In our,lesson, I asked the kids what repentance was and told them that when I was their age I thought it was everywhere. I even wanted to write to the First Presidency of the church and ask them.directly to explain why the Book of Mormon was the keystone of our religion and if it was a commonly known thing, by adults, that that book was primarily about repentance.
ReplyDeletethen, when I started reading the books Sis. Hirschi gave them for Christmas, I pointed out how often that word still pops up. I know it must be of extreme importance.
I will definitely be lucky if the black pea thing really works.
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