Thankful.

Just one more post about Thanksgiving.....

Last year I found and purchased the coolest "Thankful Tree" from Pottery Barn. It's a tree that has 30 little pockets on it to fill with things we are thankful for. Starting on November 1st, we sit around the dinner table each night and go around and share what we are thankful for, either from that day specifically or just something in general. We write it on a card and then put the card in the correct pocket. And while it was fun hearing some of the things Reilly said she was thankful last year, it was way cool to hear the way her little mind and her heart has been shaped since then. Some of the things she said she was thankful for took Shawn and I by surprise. It's so fun to witness her develop this innocent faith. One of the things she mentioned one night was that she was thankful for "Daddy going to work every single day so that mommy can stay at home with us"...what? At 4 yrs. old, we were pretty blown away by that one! And to help B along, we would have him say, "Thank you, God, for....." Most of the time his thank-yous had to do with what one of us had already said or something concrete, which is to be expected at 2yrs. old! This is a fun tradition that we will definitely keep doing and the kids love it! We keep the cards in our yearly "box" so we can look back at them as the years go by.