I haven’t had a chance to write about our experiences with family proclamation week.  Trekky man and I have really grown to cherish our time with the kids.  (I say this now as the children are behind me wrestling and screaming so loud I can hardly think!)  Did I say cherish????  Yes, yes I did!  We really did cherish these past 2 weeks.  These past 2 weeks helped me  realized that “good family relationships don’t happen by accident they happen intentionally.”  We’ve always wanted to have and tried to have good relationships with the children.   But it seemed it was so easy to allow things to get in the way.  I needed a break,  needed  to clean this up, had to get dinner done, clean the table off, etc…  I’ve discovered that when we’ve put our family first all these other things come into place.  Dinner got done with their help, chores got done …with their help,….and I discovered that I wasn’t so in need of a “break” because we were genuinely enjoying our time together.  We’ve had lots of fun together and have had some really faith promoting experiences together.

Although having lots of fun together was a big thing for us I also realized that if I want my children to develop faith in their Lord, and gain testimonies of their own we had to have those teaching experiences in our home.  I couldn’t expect them to learn and grow just from attending church weekly.  It was more important for those experiences to come from having the spirit in our home.  I recognize the great responsibility that lies on the shoulders of parents all over the world to teach, inspire, and show our children how to be good people.  My children are a great blessing to me.  I have learned and grown much from my experiences with them.  I’m grateful for the times I’ve had with them thus far and look forward to many more wonderful moments with them.  Family proclomation week has become a tradition for us.  One that will occur several times a year.  There were also several things that we did that will become weekly or monthly traditions as well.  I’m not saying things went so perfectly, or that they were easy because they weren’t.  We wanted this to be a wonderful experience for all of us so we put forth the effort, and it paid off in the end.  It was well worth the sacrifices and effort.  Time with our family was as that one commercial says: “PRICELESS!”