The one thing I knew I was going to miss without a TV, and the only reason we got cable TV in the first place, was General Conference. Since Alyson brought it up in her comment to my last post, I thought I'd ask what do you do to "celebrate" General Conference?
Now that we'll be going to the church to watch it, I know our past traditions will go out the window, but it would just be fun to know what you do.
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Every General Conference now for about 14 years we have homemade cinnamon rolls and fruit salad for breakfast ~ nothing like the smell of 'em baking to wake everyone up! We look forward to feasting together both spiritually and temporally.
We watch Saturday session here, if it's working. It doesn't come in so well sometimes for some reason. On Sunday we go to Matt's parents house. You guys are more than welcome to join us either day.
We only recently got cable so we have always gone to the church on Sunday morning to watch conference as a family. Then we go home and have a really fun picnic lunch (if it's raining we do it inside) and then back for the afternoon session. The Saturday sessions are harder to catch with sports and all but whenever we can chris and I try to get to those sessions as well.
We get out the laptop and watch the live video feed on the internet.
Homemade donuts and a new cross stitch to work on. Toss me a blanket and I'm good for the weekend. : )
Our first tradition is General Conference bingo. A friend magazine had 24 pictures of things (a stack of nine pennies with a single penny beside it, a sacrament tray, President Hinckley whose picture I now need to replace, a covered wagon...) and I printed out a 5x5 grid for each kid and they glued the pictures where they wanted to in the squares (so no bingo cards are the same) and we slide 'em in sheet protectors.
Every session we have a different cereal—froot loops, cocoa puffs, life, whatever—and they use the cereal (or sometimes skittles or M&Ms) to play bingo. When they get a row they can eat all those things and keep going.
Our second tradition is legos. We drag all the Legos downstairs from my eldest son's room and they build build build for two days straight, when they're not bingoing. Frankly it isn't very reverent and I question whether they're really paying attention, but then I think, what kid can really pay close attention all four sessions without a little mind wander?
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