Speaking of FHE (thanks for all the GREAT ideas by the way), this week we did our traditional Valentine’s “Heart Attack” (I still thank Nicole every year for this idea).
We each write what we love about each different family member on a heart. Then we heart-attack the kitchen with them.
We embellished some with yarn this year just for fun.
Lucy’s contribution:
Translation: “I love my family even though I scream a lot and swipe them away when they’re trying to help me and yell ‘no’ in a mean voice.”
Claire’s need a teeny bit of translation too…she puts her words any which way that fits:
Translation: “I love Lucy because she plays with me.” (Do you like those great scratches on the fridge?)
Translation: “I love Mom because she makes good food.”
We went around and read them all after we taped them up and I loved watching the kids eyes glow with excitement when I read what people said about them.
I love to be surrounded by all that love all month.
What a great idea! I love that your heart attack is in your kitchen. We've done this at our house before, but it was on Valentine's Day. (One year, we even heart-attacked my husband's car while he was at work. His co-workers loved it, and so did he.) Never thought to do it ahead of the big day and use them as decorations. Thanks for the inspiration!
love the idea! we may be doing this sometime soon.
Pax – lena
I love this! May I borrow the idea?
so cute! I think that will be our FHE this Sunday 🙂
Hi,
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this idea!
I will try it with my four tonight after dinner!
Thanks so much!!!!!
Joy
(a rather new stalker of your blog)
Once again, what a great idea. I will share this with the moms of small children in my life!
Hi Shawni! I was introduced to your blog from Sarah (Clover Lane), but I love your Mother's Book of Secrets and the first mothering book my mom gave me 10 years ago was a Joyful Mother of Children by your mom~we're huge Eyre fans 🙂 Anyway, I love your blog..and love this idea!
Sorry..I was signed into my husband's account. I'm Melissa, he's Hyrum!
I love this idea. After reading your post on the "heart attack" from last year, we did a similar activity yesterday. I love seeing the red and the hearts.
I love your blog and your cute family. Wondering if you could do a post how you manage a large family. (Discipline,Chores,Rewards,etc.)
FABULOUS idea!
we must do this! even
though there are only 4 of us in our family, we can come up with lots of things to say! LOVE IT!
tara
Loving the yarn!!
I'm DYING to know what you got for your birthday…..
And I didn't know it was your birthday when I ran into you guys!!
So, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
BTW, what was the name of that Thai place?
Oops! that was Nicole, not Jake.
We are SO doing that! Hey I was wondering if you would mind if I made a button to link to your blog to put on my blog. If not, just say so, I'm pretty hard to offend! 🙂
what a cute idea…may i borrow it too…the girls would love this and what a great thing to do during the week…thanks for sharing.
Such a great idea! We just might do that this coming weekend.
Also, I love that enormous fork! Where in the world did you get it?!
of course, Becki and Kaylin, anyone can copy this who would like…I think I have license to give permission since I copied the idea myself…
LOVE it! Love you!
Oh I love this idea!! I am going to put up a link to this post!! 🙂
I love reading your sweet blog, and I love this idea! How precious!!
We totally stole the "Thanksgiving Tree" and it is still up because every time I say I'm taking it down one of the kids freaks out. I think this will make a great replacement! I think we'll do it for our activity tomorrow night! Thanks Shawni.
Thanks for the idea. I'm using this tonight!
This is so cute! I wish I had more kids so that this could be really fun. For now there is just me, my hubby, and our 2 year old son. But hopefully this idea will stick in my mind for future years! thanks
cute cute idea….I got to your blog via your I'm a mormon video…I'm a mormon too..anyway, just wanted to say you seem so cool and I love the whole I love Lucy cause you have going. It's really fun to see the other things people are involved with and their talents. and thanks for the fhe idea, we'll have to give it a try.