One of the difficulties of Family Home Evening is meeting every kid at their spiritual and developmental level. I have an inquisitive, wise 10 year old down to a rowdy, delayed 3 year old. They don’t need the same lesson. They don’t have the same attention span. They don’t have the same interests or the same questions. So what is a mom to do?

So I have had this dilemma with my blog lately.

As my loyal readers probably know I am a Mormon. And being a Mormon isn’t just something we do on Sunday. We are religious every day of the week.

Have you ever felt the way I did? Where you are bored with your own strengths? Where you want different talents? Where you want to take off your own labels and rewrite them? Where you hope to be something more than you are?

My husband and I were laying in bed last Friday night after we had just pulled off a busy day of Cousin Camp. He said to me, “You are a hard worker.” I said, “I know, but I want to be fun.”

A few years ago, my mom talked to a married couple that she really respected. They had great adult kids and she wanted to know what they did to be so successful. The man said that the one thing they did that he felt really helped was called…

As Chad and I have discussed thrift this year, one of the things we decided to do was increase our Fast Offering amount. For those of my readers that don’t know what this means, let me explain to you what FAST OFFERINGS are.