27 November 2008

We are Thankful

This year, we finally did it. Behold our Thanksgiving Tree!

Way back on November 3rd our FHE was on gratitude. I had prepared 40 strips of paper for us to write our gratitude on so we could hang them on our tree as a reminder throughout the month. I was not prepared, however, for the onslaught of thankfulness. The kids went on and on and on, they were grateful for each of their friends, all of our neighbors, every single family member, school, teachers, food, bodies, church, games, our home, clothes, water, candy, toys, unprompted they even said Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father. This was one of my favorite FHE's ever, and a definite new tradition, next year, I'll prepare many, many more word strips.

4 comments:

Trish said...

Are those strips laminated?! What a brilliant idea! Happy Thanksgiving, Sherrie! Hope you had a wonderful Turkey day!

Sherrie said...

I cut the paper just a wee thinner than the packing tape I had, so they're ghetto-tape-laminated, yeah. It was fun.

hope said...

That is awesome!! Our trees out front are TOO tall for that, but our fruit trees would be perfect!! Wonderful idea.

***LIZ*** said...

Love this idea, totally stealing it for next year!