This morning we took down our "Thankful tree" and various other Thanksgiving decorations that the children made. We're preparing for Christmas decorations to come but since I keep telling my children that Christmas should be Thanksgiving (ie what better time to be thankful for God's great gifts than when we celebrate HIS most precious gift to us) I'm listing here what was on each leaf of our thankful tree:
Clouds
Fruit
Aunts & Uncles
Music
Grandma
$$
Friends
Flowers
Dad
Bible
GOD
Family
Light
Cousins
Dark Chocolate (No, that one wasn't mine!!)
Obedient, Thoughtful, Good Spelling, Hard-working Children (Only one from Dad!)
Jesus
Mom & Dad
Emma, Russ, Ethan, Matt, JoJo and Katy
Trees
Mom
Water
Doctors
God's Love for Us
Batteries
Brothers & Sisters
Food
Hospitals
The Bible
A Mom that Loves Us
Snow
A car & clothes
A Father's Care
Opportunities
Trees & Flowers
A mother's love
Our church
Coffee
A God of Second chances
Fire
Brothers & Sisters
Freedom
Emma
Police
As we begin the Christmas season, my prayer is that our family will continue to count the real blessings in life and not the presents. I'd love ideas about how your family does that, too.
-F
