Natural Family Blog Archive 🌹 The First 20 Years

We just shared a wonderful meal together as a family and talked about our New Years Resolutions for Family Home Evening.
I only have one. I’ve given up chocolate in all its forms.
I did this once before, and stayed true to it for several years, but for the past several months, it has just felt like I have been eating lots and lots of chocolate sweets. This really affects my moods and my singing voice, and so I have decided to give it up for the duration. I stopped eating all chocolate in preparation for singing the Messiah, and have not taken one bite since the day before Halloween. My resolve kept me strong during the holiday months, and it has now been two full months since I’ve eaten any candy.
But this time I am taking it one step beyond and we are going to be a chocolate free house. I told the children that they can eat as much as they want at school, church, and with their friends, but that I did not want them to bring any into the house. They were pretty nice about it.
Jenny Hatch