DESCRIBE YOUR FAMILY TRADITIONS
HALLOWEEN: I used to let the kids go out trick-or-treating, but then society seemed to get less trustworthy and there’s so much candy and junk food available I decided to just buy their favorite candy and if they wanted to dress up to answer the door that was fine.
THANKSGIVING: We try to have dinner by 2:30. We bless the food and then as Dad’s carving the turkey we each take a moment to say what we’re thankful for. The dearest one in recent memory was when Nicole at age 3 said, “I’m thankful that I’m beautiful.” The most precious to me is when our children say how thankful they are for the gospel in their lives. As for foods, we generally have turkey, sage-sausage dressing, stuffed celery, olives, mashed potatoes, baked yams, sometimes a leafy salad, sometimes Sharon’s Jell-O™ salad, sometimes a vegetable, gravy (can’t forget that-I love it the most!) and jellied cranberry sauce (mmmmmm)
CHRISTMAS: We generally start the holiday setting up the tree the day after Thanksgiving. We also add a new Christmas ornament each year. Sometimes the ornament’s at the Thanksgiving dinner table, sometimes under the Christmas tree, sometimes in a Christmas stocking. We also on one of the Family Home Evening’s after Thanksgiving, write a letter to Christ with the commitments we want to make to Him. We open presents Christmas morning. We have the married kids draw each others names to exchange gifts.
The weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas we usually cook and bake Christmas goodies and because the recipes make up so much (more because I like to eat the treats so much) we make up plates and take them around to widows/ers and inactives. We make up rice krispy trees to take to the families David home teaches. When the children were younger, we’d have them run the plates up to the porches and leave them on the doorstep, ring the bell and run like crazy. We called it sleek and sneak. It was fun.
HUNTING: We don’t hunt, except for bargains at the mall! And at yard sales! And lost items, and we seem to be very good at misplacing items. We only shoot with a camera.
WEDDINGS: They can do anything they want. We can only help so much financially and we’ll help with anything else they need which we’re capable of. We do feel strongly that a wedding breakfast is important, especially if there are people coming from out of town to it.
GARDENING: We established that working in the yard for an hour a day, early in the morning was good and sufficient. Good for health, good for the looks of the yard, good for keeping the weeds down and sufficient for all of us. It’s good to work together.
MISSIONARY WORK: When we have a missionary out, he/she gets a letter once a week. Period. E-mail too if it’s possible.
FAMILY SCRIPTURE READING & STUDY: We generally don’t make it long or hard, a page or two, but daily from any of the 4 canonized scripture of the LDS Church.
THANKSGIVING: We try to have dinner by 2:30. We bless the food and then as Dad’s carving the turkey we each take a moment to say what we’re thankful for. The dearest one in recent memory was when Nicole at age 3 said, “I’m thankful that I’m beautiful.” The most precious to me is when our children say how thankful they are for the gospel in their lives. As for foods, we generally have turkey, sage-sausage dressing, stuffed celery, olives, mashed potatoes, baked yams, sometimes a leafy salad, sometimes Sharon’s Jell-O™ salad, sometimes a vegetable, gravy (can’t forget that-I love it the most!) and jellied cranberry sauce (mmmmmm)
CHRISTMAS: We generally start the holiday setting up the tree the day after Thanksgiving. We also add a new Christmas ornament each year. Sometimes the ornament’s at the Thanksgiving dinner table, sometimes under the Christmas tree, sometimes in a Christmas stocking. We also on one of the Family Home Evening’s after Thanksgiving, write a letter to Christ with the commitments we want to make to Him. We open presents Christmas morning. We have the married kids draw each others names to exchange gifts.
The weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas we usually cook and bake Christmas goodies and because the recipes make up so much (more because I like to eat the treats so much) we make up plates and take them around to widows/ers and inactives. We make up rice krispy trees to take to the families David home teaches. When the children were younger, we’d have them run the plates up to the porches and leave them on the doorstep, ring the bell and run like crazy. We called it sleek and sneak. It was fun.
HUNTING: We don’t hunt, except for bargains at the mall! And at yard sales! And lost items, and we seem to be very good at misplacing items. We only shoot with a camera.
WEDDINGS: They can do anything they want. We can only help so much financially and we’ll help with anything else they need which we’re capable of. We do feel strongly that a wedding breakfast is important, especially if there are people coming from out of town to it.
GARDENING: We established that working in the yard for an hour a day, early in the morning was good and sufficient. Good for health, good for the looks of the yard, good for keeping the weeds down and sufficient for all of us. It’s good to work together.
MISSIONARY WORK: When we have a missionary out, he/she gets a letter once a week. Period. E-mail too if it’s possible.
FAMILY SCRIPTURE READING & STUDY: We generally don’t make it long or hard, a page or two, but daily from any of the 4 canonized scripture of the LDS Church.
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