Christmas Stories & Fire Drills

I've always wanted a collection of Christmas stories we can read as we count down with our advent calendar. I wanted them to be stories from the Church magazines or leaders. So last night I spent some time searching online for stuff to use. I decided to use stories from The Friend since I have 2 little ones at home -- I thought they might enjoy them more. I found quite a few of them through the Church's website & at eprimary.dk under "holidays."

Tonight for our FHE lesson, I had us do a fire drill. I talked to Tyler about emergencies and that we need to have a plan in case we have to leave our house in an emergency. We talked about our "safety buddies." So, when both parents are home, we each have a child as our buddy. Then we decided on a well lighted meeting place in case we get separated. Then I set a times for a couple minutes, and we went about doing our thing. When the "fire alarm" went off we got our "buddies" and headed out the door. We all walked to our meeting place. Okay, it seems kinda cheesy, but I feel so much better knowing that we know what to do in case of an emergency. And Tyler was great. At first he was nervous and didn't understand why we had to do it, but then afterwards he got it. My next step is to have our 72-hour kits part of the drill too. We'll probably do this every so often so we can really be confident that Tyler knows what to do. If you haven't done something like this with your family, I highly recommend it!