Family Home Evening

As much as I love being social and keeping busy, today was a perfect day to slow down and have some quiet family time. We began our Family Home Evening with a scripture about baptism, in honor of Ethan's 8th birthday being on Tuesday, and then a lesson on eternal families. We read a beautiful book about what happens when we die. If you are looking on teaching your children about the plan of salvation, it is a wonderful resource. We haven't told our children the severity of Cannon's condition, but thought this would be a good lesson to teach in preparation for that very difficult future conversation.

After we read the book, Ethan and Ella came over to hug me. Ethan said he just felt a "warm squeeze" on his heart and wanted to come give me a hug. We also read a story from the Friend magazine with a great message about missing those who die before us but having things to remember them and help us not to be sad. That led us into our activity of making these special fingerprint necklaces. Even though I am the one that told Kent exactly what he was getting me for our anniversary, I will say this- he was very particular about how perfectly the prints came out. He molded and shaped and rolled and pressed that clay until we had the perfect print for each child. He was determined to make it perfect.

Ella had to repeat hers a couple times- shocker. I didn't get any pictures of Cannon because I was holding him while Kent did the print.

We were going to make cookies together but realized we had used the last egg yesterday. We were visited by two different families bringing cookies by so we were overly blessed with delicious treats! Thank you!