Count Your Blessings

The girls ask for the same songs every night. One of the favorites is "Count Your Blessings". They finally have the right name down, but they were calling it, "Count Your Numbers". At first, Nathan and I didn't know what they were talking about. So for FHE we counted our blessings. This is what they found.

Then they stood by each one and counted their blessings.

And then I added 3 more blessings after they were done.

FHE - Wise Man and the Foolish Man

For FHE we learned about the Wise Man and the Foolish Man. Here they are building houses out of blocks which they promptly knocked down.


I posted the lesson (pictures and everything) Here on my FHE blog.

25 Days of Christmas Begins!

Tonight the girls and I did the first day of the 25 days of Christmas. We pretended we were Wise Men on our Camels (using of course the wise men and camels from our nativity scenes) looking for the Baby Jesus. Then we made a 25 days of Christmas chain. I figure that we could switch off and one child tear off the paper chain and the other do the advent calendar. We're just sad that our Daddy couldn't join us today, but he gets to go to his sister's wedding We're excited that he gets to go and we're excited for his sister.

I have at least the first 11 days of Christmas done, and now I'm just finishing up the rest of them. I definitely see this as an evolving thing. Next years' will probably be different. I posted it on my FHE Blog

25 Days of Christmas

A couple of years ago my mom did a 25 days of Christmas binder that had a cute little story and a coloring page for each day in December before Christmas. Well, I liked the idea, only saw it once (detrimentally seeing that they had already colored half the pictures and NO COPIES!). Now (since I've sort of finished my last project) I'm doing a booklet for the 25 days of Christmas. I've got about 10 days worth of stuff so far. Of course I want to do the normal "church approved" stuff, so if you have any great ideas, send them my way! I have coloring pages (mostly from the friend), reenactment ideas, and pictures to color, cut and laminate. And yes, I start thinking about Christmas early. Which reminds me, if you're reading this and I (or any of my family) have your name (or your family's) for Christmas, What do you want? (Nathan, this includes you :) Anyway, look at my fhe blog to find the 25 days of Christmas that I have done. If you have a fun, fun, fun idea to add, let me know.

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