Soup’s On! Sit Down Family Meals

Marjorie has been doing some great articles about entertaining and her recent one about sit-down dinners for guests made me think about family sit-down meals. How often do you and your family sit down together to eat? Sometimes, it’s darn near impossible to do, but it’s important to make time to do it regularly. Sitting down and having a meal together helps families bonds. It gives everyone a chance to catch up, even if you’re usually all running in different directions. These days, so many families are overscheduled, that they rarely eat right, let alone eat together. Even if you … Continue reading

Family Prayer

One activity that truly helps to build family bonds is family prayer. There is something special about families gathering together in prayer on a regular basis. It helps to teach children about praying for others, and a true reverence for our Heavenly Father. There is also a close bond formed between people that pray for each other. This bond is the pure love that is hard to achieve in any relationship. Gathering the family together each day to pray can be a difficult task, especially when you have teenagers. It can seem like everyone is on a different time schedule … Continue reading