Tim's family has a tradition of sitting corn kernels at the table on Thanksgiving day and after dinner, family members take turns saying what they're thankful for...one for each kernel in the cup. When our children were very little, our family borrowed this tradition with a little twist of our own. We started the first of November and used candy corn in a jar, moving it to each child's cup every morning as they would say what they were thankful for. I loved their answers when they were little, and if I find our old family journal I'll post some of them. We had this problem with using candy corn. As fun as it sounds, the candy corn kept disappearing...apparently we had mice back then. We switched after that to regular corn kernels, and still use them. Some years we've done better than others at keeping up our tradition, but we love seeing the number of kernels increase as we find things to be thankful for through the month.
Tonight we started our tradition again. I was writing down what everyone said because we've had fun reading back over some of the things we're thankful for over the years. The kids crack up now that they were thankful for "Grandma Barcy" (our really awesome old neighbor) about 15 times in one month. As I was writing down what they said tonight, Tim said, "Mom's going to put those on the blog." Of course I thanked him for his idea and here I am, blogging about what we're thankful for.
We also thought it would be fun this year to let all of you help us fill our gratitude jar. Through the month as we post things we're thankful for, feel free to jump in and let us know what you're all thankful for as well. We start off by saying we're thankful for all of you, the people we love!
November 3, 2008: We are all thankful that Joe is home. So thankful, in fact that we called him in Germany (we think it was midnight or 1:00 a.m. there) to sing "Happy Birthday" to him. Thanks Joe for letting us hear your voice and I hope you didn't miss out on too much sleep....we're getting you ready for the baby!
Megan: Animals
Joie: You peoples.
Tim: For my wonderful wife (I'm really not making that up.)
Nate: Barcy (Of course he had to get a laugh.)
Jeran: Nate's sense of humor...and Beth and Trevor's dry humor.
Mary: Tim and really great friends (We got cookies tonight from one of our neighbors.)
We look forward to hearing what everyone else is thankful for also!
1 comment:
I think we did that one year at Thanksgiving dinner and made everyone say what they were thankful for. But I like the idea of doing it all month.
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