General Conference Weekend

I've really come a long way in how I approach General Conference with children. I still really love General Conference - the talks, the stories, the music, just the Spirit of listening to the Lord's chosen leaders of His Church. But because I want my children to enjoy conference as well, but I don't expect them to enjoy the same things I enjoy, I focus more on making it a positive experience for them when it's broadcast live than I do on listening and understanding everything that's said. I hear some things and benefit from the broadcast itself, but I plan on learning a lot more after it's over and I'm not with my children - I read the talks in the Ensign and I listen to them on my iPod. No, my kids don't love Conference, but still. This approach seems to work for us right now.

So I had an idea this time to get a spiral bound book of index cards and have Cat find pictures of certain items to glue on each page. We have tons of Friend and Ensign magazines that we will not move to UT with us, so I thought it was the perfect opportunity for her to have a free-for-all cut-it-up magazine scavenger hunt. And I planned to use the book as a Sacrament Meeting entertainment item in the future. She enjoyed making the book. For about 10 minutes on Saturday. And about 20 minutes on Sunday. Haha. But the large stack of magazines provided fun for all the children, the entire weekend.


Of course we made our traditional crepes for breakfast on Saturday and donuts for breakfast on Sunday.
Side note: I really do love donuts. But this is the first time I'd had them in a while. Then, on Tuesday I was hanging out with my Dad in Florida and he took us out to Dunkin Donuts for breakfast. And on Thursday my sister was visiting us at our house and wanted to make donuts so she made some cut-a-hole-out-of-premade-biscuit-dough-and-fry-it-up donuts that were pretty yummy too. Donuts 3 times in one week?? Yes!!


Here are some glimpses of our living room on Sunday of conference weekend. I'll let you decide which pictures were taken during the sessions and which were not. :-)