Monday night lessons

The Home Evening when dad cashed his paycheck and divided it between us – it was so much money – we were so excited - then we had to pay all the bills each with a portion of our money – can’t remember what was left over – pretty sure it was hardly anything.  Was a lesson I will always remember.

Marji

A few home evenings stand out to me besides the money one. I can still recall that one vividly right down where I was sitting on the floor. I think we ended up with 37 cents each. How about the home evening on the back cement slab where Mom made a paper house and told a story about the house burning down and then the match was struck and she burned down the paper house. Wow!  I remember the music box of instruments- mostly percussion. The parts part of home evening was interesting. One home evening about the word "empathy" came at a helpful time for me. 

Gillan

For FHE the paycheck one had to be the most memorable. I have used that many times in teaching classes. But I also remember the “cowboy” night we had and the black ceiling in the living room from the buddy burning we cooked on in the house. And one night we had a bubble blowing event with plastic covering the kitchen table and we had straws in glasses with water and dish soap in them.  We made a really great mess. And another time we had earned points by doing chores and we bid on items that mom had in her “store”. And in the later years we had “hoser night” and wore plaid shirts and wore toques. I think Cindy lost playing “beer hunter” in the bath tub.

Lori

The reason I made and burned a paper house on the patio was because we had one of our kids that loved to light matches and had started the garage on fire….it was supposed to be an object  lesson to show how dangerous playing with fire can be…..I told a story about a family (I made paper figures) that went to bed one nite and one of their children played with matches and burned the house down….I lit a match and of course the paper house and family all got burned up…..I was hoping to show what could happen…..but the reaction I got from our young firebug was “Hey, that was Cool” (or whatever we saying in those days)  “Mommy can you do that again!!!!!!”  So much for object lessons.

Mom