Earlier this year I read a friend's blog post about their family theme for the year. As I read her post, I felt strongly that it would be important for us to have a family theme for our family, too. So about a month ago we had a Family Home Evening discussing what our family theme was going to be for the year.
We decided on the theme "We Are One."
The theme came from a talk President Uchtdorf, one of our general church leaders, gave a few years ago. At the beginning of this year, our local church leaders counseled us to have regular family councils so that we could be more unified in our family decisions. They also promised that as we did so our children would learn how to voice their opinions and how to compromise.
As we discussed the different potential themes, we felt strongly that these would all be imperative qualities for our children to have to succeed in life. We also felt that it would be important for Neal and I to be more unified in our decisions as parents.
We have already found areas that we can be more unified in, and it has already strengthened our marriage to work on them. I'm really excited to see where this theme takes us this year!
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