Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Neighborhood FHE

Family home evenings (FHE) are get-togethers scheduled by Mormons each Monday evening where each family in the church comes together for an informal meeting at home. Sometimes a lesson is given, counsel and organization of the family needs taken care of, games played, music sung and refreshments served. Everyone has a role to play and the duties rotate between family members: refresh-ments, games, songs, lesson, conducting, etc. The purpose is to spend at least an hour weekly as a family, but after you retire most empty nest parents forego having FHEs. Our local church group decided to get together as couples once a month and have a FHE. Our first one was a pot luck get together. (Photo above the host and hostess of our empty nest second meeting-hubby and me.)

This week was a lesson at our home on "HEALTHY SNACKS." Each couple brought a nutritious snack to share and we had a short lesson on: why we eat food, snacks, what's healthy or unhealthy, and how to improve our snacking. The discussion on choc-olate was interest-ing, then we enjoyed visiting and refreshments. Here's some photos of our group. We had 11 attend. (Right guests: l-r Wanda, Bonnie and Rick enjoying the snack table and below: Marilyn, Bob, Sondra-who helped with the lesson, Norm, and Bill enjoying snacks and conversing. Not shown Merle.)

7 comments:

  1. This is a splendid idea. I'm for anything that connects people and encourages a sense of commnity.

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  2. What a great idea. I would love to be able to attend such a meeting. And I love the idea that it is for "empty-nesters", something which I am sadly starting to encounter!

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  3. Very cool reminder that there are many ways to be a family, to take care of each other.

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  4. I had never heard of that before Lin. But it sounds like a lovely idea for people in the Church to learn from one another and to stay connected...Michelle

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  5. This is so nice...also, I won! Although there is one more part to the challenge...next next Monday! Stay tuned!

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  6. Staying connected means you have to be connected in order to be a part of it. Moving out of state, divorce, retiring, ...I am not feeling so connected these days.

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