A New Thanksgiving Tradition

This year I started a Thankful tree.  You have a bear tree and you fill it up with leaves of things you are thankful for.  You're supposed to do it all month but since our family is young we just did it for FHE.  The girls loved it.  Aliyah wanted to keep making leaves and Lauren loved putting the tree and leaves on the wall.

 Lauren even helped my during the day line up the leaves while I checked to make sure the tree would work. 

We put on our entry wall so we would remember to be grateful all month.  And let me tell you, what a reminder it was, everyday half the leaves and or the tree would peel off the wall and I would have to re-stick it.  I most grateful for tape that sticks!! haha

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.  It turns what we have into enough, and more.  It turns denial in acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.  It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events.  Gratitude makes sense of our past, bring peace for today and creates a vision of tomorrow."--Melodie Beattie

 I have SO much in my life I am thankful for!