Family Theme 2012-2013

Each August, we start the school year with a fun dinner and roll out the theme we'll be focusing on for the next twelve months. We've done this since CQH was a wee thing, even before she started school. We always choose something that seems timely for our family, that coordinates with a Primary song (that we then sing at each Family Home Evening and at other times), and that can easily be incorporated into discussions about any old thing. We've done Choose what is right; let the consequence follow; Keep the commandments; in this, there is safety and peace; Dare to be true; and Kindness begins with me. There's at least one more, but I'm not at home and can't look at my bulletin board for a reminder.

This year's theme is above. Because, you know, those Europeans* are bound to be exhibiting styles and behaviors that might strike a little Mormon kid as odd, and there will be questions. We're prayerfully armed with the answers. This year's theme will help. We'll unveil it tomorrow at FHE, when it will become this year's opening hymn. (The closing hymn is always the same. It's the "Howard Hymn": Let us all Press On.)

*And perhaps we'll also address in tomorrow's FHE the girl in CQH's Primary class in the ward we're visiting who had a pierced tongue. (!!!)