Well, I know it shouldn't be complicated, but it is. Those Family Home Evening charts, you know the ones will the assignments on who is going give the lesson, prayers, lead the music, and make the dessert for FHE. They are complicated and just never worked for our family! To start out with, they would usually have an "extra" spot that we didn't have anyone to fill. But mostly, we wouldn't remember to move the little "flower" or "heart" to the next little spot, so the next week (or weeks later if we had forgotten to use it at all) we wouldn't know if we actually had moved it, or we had forgotten, or maybe Katie had moved it because she wanted to choose the Activity this time... it always ended up a bit of an argument and with just, well, confusion. So for the past year we have been skipping the little FHE charts and Mom just does the lesson, whoever wants to help makes the dessert, and we assign everything else as we go. But it's a new day and I have a new plan. No moving pieces on my chart - just names in boxes for each Monday of the month. It's simple. It's uncomplicated. Life is complicated enough.
Day 1 - went great and everyone completed their assignments. Ally gave us a lesson on "feeding His sheep" from the friend. Katie made Brownies (mostly) by herself, and we would've played hide-n-sheep in our house (we have many great hiding places!) if we hadn't had two visitors during the lesson and ended at 8:30p.m. without an activity. (With promises to play soon!)
I'll let you know how the rest of the month goes and if it stays as uncomplicated as I hope it will!
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