Month of Thanks
A wonderfully simple, yet powerful exercise for November: join me (& my friend, Liz!) in blogging (or sharing here in the comments) what you’re thankful for each day of the month. I did this last year, too, and it just feels so good!
Yesterday, I was particularly thankful for motivation: motivation to give our bathrooms a good bleaching (no one's sick - another reason to be thankful!!!; just needed a deep clean), motivation to make some AWESOME handmade Christmas presents (NOT trying to skip Thanksgiving; just had these materials ready to go! Sorry, I can't give details, though, until after the holidays, as certain readers will be recipients ;-)), and motivation to start reading my book - it's sooo good - instead of watching TV, (a shocker for me! :-P)
Today, I'm thankful for the right to vote and that these HORRIBLE campaign ads will FINALLY be off the air tomorrow. [I've had to turn off several in front of my kids that talk about people being murdered! I kid you not! Ominous voice: "A family of 4, murdered in their home...This judge won't let murderers off so easily." Disgusting.]
I'm thankful that JB is off work today, and I'm thankful that we got to make a big donation run to the Salvation Army. :-) At church on Sunday, our pastor challenged everyone to give away five things this week; we filled up the entire back of our van! I'm such a nostalgia queen, it's hard to let go of our "stuff" sometimes; but this always feels great. I love making these runs a couple times a year, and esp. including the kids, having them pick out their stuff to donate.
(Want to share even more thanks? Join Gratituesday at Heavenly Homemakers!)
Yesterday, I was particularly thankful for motivation: motivation to give our bathrooms a good bleaching (no one's sick - another reason to be thankful!!!; just needed a deep clean), motivation to make some AWESOME handmade Christmas presents (NOT trying to skip Thanksgiving; just had these materials ready to go! Sorry, I can't give details, though, until after the holidays, as certain readers will be recipients ;-)), and motivation to start reading my book - it's sooo good - instead of watching TV, (a shocker for me! :-P)
Today, I'm thankful for the right to vote and that these HORRIBLE campaign ads will FINALLY be off the air tomorrow. [I've had to turn off several in front of my kids that talk about people being murdered! I kid you not! Ominous voice: "A family of 4, murdered in their home...This judge won't let murderers off so easily." Disgusting.]
I'm thankful that JB is off work today, and I'm thankful that we got to make a big donation run to the Salvation Army. :-) At church on Sunday, our pastor challenged everyone to give away five things this week; we filled up the entire back of our van! I'm such a nostalgia queen, it's hard to let go of our "stuff" sometimes; but this always feels great. I love making these runs a couple times a year, and esp. including the kids, having them pick out their stuff to donate.
(Want to share even more thanks? Join Gratituesday at Heavenly Homemakers!)
Awesome idea to list things you are thankful for each day (I'm doing this too!) I love that you are teaching your children the importance of charity and thinking of others.
ReplyDeleteI am taking your idea this year and not doing it on the computer but doing it with my kids. Every morning we are going to add to our tree (that I need to make today) what we are thankful for and so by thanksgiving we should have an interesting arrangement of thanks! :D
ReplyDeleteI'm glad we're all doing this! :-)
ReplyDeleteOh, Amy - I LOOOOVE that!!! I've got to copy you!!!
They put a blank calendar in our church newsletter to do Thirty Days of Thanksgiving too. I decided to post mine each day on facebook.
ReplyDeletei feel so inspired! i may be 3 days late on the thanks bandwagon, but i'll start now! thanks for the challenge! i love it!
ReplyDeleteGreat ideas! It helps keep the holiday in perspective... as I tend to focus on the food only sometimes! haha
ReplyDeleteI *LOVE* all this, and Reynie - I'm all about the food, too! ;-)
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