During the school year, we try to begin each school day with a small and simple devotional of some kind. But with the coming of summer, we’re now more free from schedules, and sitting down for devotional time has not been happening!
However, I feel strongly that it is important that my kids get scripture reading in to their days, and personal scripture time is important. Now that Raisin is 8, he has chosen to be baptized. I want scripture reading to start as a habit early!Continue Reading
I love to start our school day with a simple devotional but I’m struggling with how to make it memorable for my young son when he has a sister dancing around distracting him. My son is seven now, so I know he can do more than simply listen to the words of scriptures. I know he understands.
The past few weeks we were revisiting General Conference talks but now we are back to our (very slow) study of The Book of Mormon.
This week I decided to ask Raisin respond to what we read (1 Nephi 8) by painting it.Continue Reading
October is approaching, and that means it’s nearly time for LDS General Conference!
In anticipation of this bi-annual gathering of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I’ve been pondering how to best prepare my two young children. At age 6-almost-7 and 2, Raisin and Strawberry are still rather young to be fully attentive to the 8 hours of discourse and song. But there are ways to learn the message and appreciate it, and I’m grateful for The Friend magazine for providing our starting point for General Conference gospel learning!Continue Reading
Today’s freebie is something I made for my son. I’ve mentioned before that we start our day with a devotional. A few weeks ago, my husband (aka, the principal) gave Raisin an additional assignment: find out how our home is like a temple.
I put all the information that we found together into an LDS Temples lapbook and we searched for images on the LDS Media Library page. Scroll down to get your own copy of the flip-flaps for your own LDS Temples lapbook!
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