Honor Bee clarification

Thanks Alice for your comment to my last post. I see that I need to clarify some things about the honor bee service hours. As I mentioned before, obviously I would not count every thing that I do for my children towards the completion of this program. That would be silly. Sister Dalton explained that these hours are to mostly be used for the young women, but they do not all have to be. The goal for the honor bee hours are to mentor young women. I feel that this most definitely applies to our daughters as well. The young womens program began with Brigham Young organizing his daughters in his home. I chose to count some hours for my daughters this week for the following reason: I have spent many hours working with our young women in my home since I was called to be the Young Women's President. We have girls camp next week and I have spent time teaching them how to sew various projects, paint, make posters, and come up with spiritual thoughts in preparation. I have family in town with the birth of my new niece as well. With everything going on, I wanted to make a special point to show my girls that I wouldn't push them aside. I've been taking time to do special things, things that I understand many of you do all the time, including myself. This was different, though. It required much more sacrifice, energy that I don't have, and time that I seem to never have enough of. Don't misunderstand. I love everything that I do related to my calling and here at home. My personal goal with my service hours are to use them to push myself to be better. To try harder in those moments when it seems hardest. My hours are not frivolously chosen. That is what is great about the personal progress and honor bee programs. They are personal. They are to be adapted to the individual. I will even be sending them to the bishop and Bonnie for his approval so that I am in check as well as the youth. Today I spent an hour playing with my niece, nephew, and daughters on the slip and slide and baby sat so that my sister could go and help Clark and Heather. My current total is 4.5 hours. I can't wait to hear what some of you are doing for yours!