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Planning a Fun LDS Summer Vacation for Your Family

The summer is a great time to plan a family vacation. It is even better if you can incorporate your gospel teaching into this time that you spend together as a family. You can plan a long road trip and hit most of the church historical sites or you can plan a shorter vacation and only see one or two of the sites. In the New York area you can attend the Hill Cumorah Pageant and visit the Sacred Grove and other museums that the church has set up in the area. This is all near around and Palmyra, New … Continue reading →

Plan Now for Summer Activities

If you have youth, you may want to start thinking about registering them for a summer camp through BYU. There are many options available to you, including EFY, sports camps and camps about the performing arts. It is a great opportunity to give your children. They will look back on the time with good memories. The EFY camps (the most popular option) are available throughout the United States, and there are several that take place each week. Registration does fill up fast, so you need to go ahead and do it now. If you are looking for an experience that … Continue reading →

Is Your Family Time Disrupted by Summer?

Sometimes with the upheaval of the summer months it is easy to let things like family home evening and scripture study fall to the wayside. In the summer the children may stay out later and want to sleep in later. In the summer teenagers may be working or out with friends during meal times. It is still essential to have family home evening each week and family scripture study each day. Here are five tips to help you get back on track. 1) Sit down and discuss the situation with your children. You can often find a compromise once they … Continue reading →

Sending Your Kids To College For The Summer

As you set out making your plans for summer programs for your kids, don’t overlook your local college. Many colleges offer classes and camps for kids. You can usually find out about these offerings through the department that handles continuing education or special courses. It’s a great way for your kids to get a taste of what college life is all about. Here in Mobile, The University of South Alabama offers camps for kids as young as 5. They offer a little bit of everything: art, foreign language, even a CSI Forensic Science Camp. Some campuses also offer enrichment classes … Continue reading →

Planning for a Teenager’s Summer

Myra wrote about getting a jump-start on planning summer activities this morning, and it got me to thinking about the challenges of providing for a structured summer with teenagers. I confess that I am one of those single mothers who absolutely dreads those three long months of summer–not only is it tougher for me to stay focused on my own work with the kids out of school, but keeping track of everyone and trying to make sure that there is a good balance between down time and structure is a huge challenge! For me, the concern is not so much … Continue reading →

Diary of a Work at Home Mom Part 11

Today is a beautiful, sunny day here. It is a welcome relief after two and a half days of nothing but rain. It is the perfect day to take my little guy to the lake. While today seems so perfect that I am tempted to think that the end of summer is nowhere near, it is hard to ignore the signs that summer is in fact drawing to a close. For many work at home parents, the days to squeeze in a little more sun and fun before the school bus arrives are going by all too quickly. As the … Continue reading →

FHE: Focus on Family Time

Family home evening is a time to gather your family together each week. It is about more than teaching your family the gospel. This is an essential and important part of family home evening, but one of the most powerful things that family home evening does is that it draws your family together and makes them stronger. As you spend time together as a family focusing on the gospel and getting to know each other, you build bonds that last. These bonds can carry your children through their most difficult times. If you are having a difficult time holding family … Continue reading →

Plan a Church Related Family Vacation

Summer is close and you may be considering planning your family vacation. If you are looking for a change of scene from the normal trip to the lake or Disney World, you may want to consider visiting some church sites. This is a great way to spend time with your family and learn a little bit more about church history. There are several options available to you. You can take an extended road trip and visit all of the sites across the United States. This could take about two weeks. If you choose to do this you may want to … Continue reading →

Moms Need Reminding Too

I’ve written about when our kids get into the “I forgot” stage, but it dawned on me that I definitely am NOT the queen of remembering things that I used to think I was. The more independent and active my kids become, the more likely I am to lose track of what’s going on. I can’t blame it entirely on adolescence, however, as I’ve had a tendency to have an occasional tough time keeping track of everything in a busy household with one parent and three kids for some time now… I need reminders. It helps if my kids write … Continue reading →

It’s Going to Take More Than an Alarm Clock

Today is the first day back to school after Spring Break for us. The weather was reasonably nice for the entirety of the break–a little chilly, but sunny and breezy and definitely in keeping with the whole “spring” theme. But, now it’s time to get the teenagers up and back into the swing of things to finish out another year of high school. Needless to say, no one is exactly “springing” out of bed this fine April morning… The alarm clocks have been going off…the snooze buttons obviously slapped since I’m hearing the rounds of beeps and buzzing for the … Continue reading →