rickety

Home Evening is a blast. When my children were teenagers we just winged it from beginning to end. The only thing we kept track of was who's turn it was for the prayer, lesson, treat, activity, conduct, scripture, etc. Conduct, prayer, and scripture were easy but you had to think fast to come up with a lesson or an activity on the spot. Once my children were in seminary they really gave interesting lessons.

What I think is if I try to do everything at once I will become discouraged and will just give up. So I work incrementally on my preparedness and build on the small successes. Others may find a different approach works for them.