A friend of ours used to post what they did for FHE on her blog. I always enjoyed looking to see what they had done and got a few good ideas for our own lessons.
A continuing goal of ours is to be consistent with holding Family Home Evening and I am thinking that by posting our activities here it will hold some accountability for me.
In the last issue of LDS Living I saw an article about saving and the old fashioned change jar. The funny thing is that when I told the family what the lesson was on they all groaned, apparently it is a known fact in our family that if mom has lesson it will be on one of three things; money, cleaning/organizing, or learning......
So we discussed what money is, what it is for, and what it should be used for. We talked about how our first priority is to give the lord his tithing, then to save for emergency, then pay bills and necessities and lastly to use it for enjoyment.
We set a short term savings goal of saving enough change to use for spending money on our trip to Disney next Nov. We then decorated the jar and taped a label on the front on which we wrote our start date. Every time it is full we will cash it in and write the date and amount on the label. The children were then set lose to collect all the change they could find. Matt decided to get into four terra cotta piggy banks I keep in the laundry room to collect change. The only problem was there was no way to get the money out, so he went at it with his drill!!!!!
It is already full!!!!!
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Just a few pictures of our chunky monkey. He is too dang cute!!!!!
Today I was watching the children while they were doing math. It was one of those moments when a smile crosses your face and peace and contentment are in your heart. It was a perfect moment. So after reveling in the moment I grabbed the camera and shot a reminder of why I home school.
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