Our Friday Tradition

So every family has something they do that helps bring them closer together. We love family home evening here but it is hard because Mikes days off have a habit of changing on us because they need him on days that are busier than others. He finally had Sunday and Monday off (which he has been asking for for 4 years now) and they just moved him again and told him that they could no longer give him those days. So we decided a couple of years ago that every Friday night, no matter if he can be there or no, the kids needed something to look back on and say that was our time to enjoy being a family no matter what. So ours is Friday Night Movies. We love Movies here. with all the struggles we go through, with movies we can escape for a few hours and be where everything thing else in a happy ending. That is why it was so hard last year when our new TV that was finally one big enough for us all to be able to see and all of our DVD's gone. We managed to get through it and in April bought a second hand big screen TV and we are slowly building up our Collection of DVD's again too. My favorite place to get them from is Feature Films For Family Plus I am a huge animation fan so this week we did Toystory 3! It has such a powerful message about family that I think the kids were needing at the moment with them feeling so separated with Ben going to a new school and spending a lot of time on homework. Cloe misses having her brothers at home during the day and of course they all have their own friends at school, which is good. But they are so close that I wanted to remind them that they should still stick up for and remember what's important. So here are some pics I took last Friday from our movie night and then Josh's laser show he put on afterwards. Do you any any Family traditions you do every week besides family home evening?

In a horrific side note we are having another issue with our computer... it is called Claudia. She was needing a stepping stool so took down the laptop and used it. After the boys played around for a little while this is what we have for a usable screen right now. At least it can be hooked up to the unused monitor that is waiting for a replacement desktop ;)