Towards the end of January in 2013 Brooks heard a comment in church mentioning how their family had always tried to read the whole Book of Mormon in that year for their family scripture study.
We thought it was a good idea but the kids would REALLY be on board if we made it MORE goal-exciting. We decided that for every chapter we finished that we would put a quarter into a jar.
IF we finished in the year, we would end up with 239 quarters.......$59.25.
With that money we would go do something fun as a family. As soon as the first trampoline place in our town was built in October the kids knew EXACTLY what they wanted that money used for (despite all the extra visits to the ER Brooks had seen from people going to the trampoline place)
We started late.....yes......and we didn't read as long in the summer (vacations will get you everytime) or on Monday nights when we had Family Home Evening anyway. Well.....all those excuses caught up to us and we had to really start reading hard in November. Thankfully, 5 of us could read and the boys got really excited over a read-a-thon idea.....in which we read 27 pages that one time with extra snacks and candy.
Long story short, we did it. The kids and I read the last 3 pages we needed on New Year's Eve. A few days later they got their trampoline park visit.
Turns out those places are REALLY hard to get non-blurry pictures. haha
Oh, unless you have someone who would stop and hold still ANYTIME to pose for a picture.
2 comments:
Great idea. We started the Book of Mormon as a family over TWO YEARS ago and are in third Nephi... ha!
Love that little thumbs up from Aleeya! What a great idea to keep the kids interested and not that expensive for a quarter a day :)
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