For the past few years we have been able to stay at home and watch general conference broadcast from Salt Lake at home on the computer. This sure has made it easier to see all 4 sessions each April and October.
As a family, we sit in the family/school room and play games or work on any sort of quiet activity that will allow us to listen to what the prophet and apostles want to teach us. In between, or even before the meetings start, (as the first broadcast doesn't start until noon,) we work on updating our 72 hour emergency kits or go on walks.
A Sunday morning walk....Liam got tired and Elizabeth, who was visiting for the weekend, had pity (or got tired of hearing him whine) and gave him a shoulder ride.
At the creek near the path we were walking, we took some time and Elizabeth taught the kids how to skip rocks. This was more difficult for Connor, due to being a lefty, but he finally got it and had fun skipping many rocks.
What a mess this school room is.....playing games or coloring pictures while listening to a Sunday session of conference.On the side you can see the small suitcases that hold individual 72 hour kits.
Ryan and Cailin playing a game together.
Last year, we went through the food and found that most of it was past due. The kids had fun eating food, like poptarts, granola bars and fruit chewies that we don't normally eat. It wasn't until this weekend that I finally got food back into the kits, (thank goodness we didn't need the kit before now). Again, they had fun putting the food packs together, savoring the day that they would get to eat such goodies. Delaney asked me when we were going to use the kits, I told her that I had hoped that we never would have to use them. I don't think she liked that answer, but I really do hope to never use them!
You inspire me to update our 72-hour kits. What an array of food.
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