Thankfulness at Thanksgiving: New Traditions

This year I went on line looking for ideas to better incorporate a feeling a Thankfulness into our Thanksgiving Traditions. Thanksgiving for us has mostly been about family, friends, getting together and enjoying each others company and eating a ton of food.

This is all good stuff, for sure, however, as my girls get older, and are arguing more, I felt like this year we needed to spend more time focusing on being thankful for the everyday things.

Thankfully my search brought me to this really cute website Sugardoodle.net. Here, I found a fun and easy way to daily remind my girls to be thankful for what they have and to show their thankfulness with actions. Oh Happy Day!

(also, I want to add that it took very little effort or craftiness on my part which I was extremely Thankful for!)

At the Sugardoodle.net main page, type in "Thankful Thanksgiving" in the search field on the upper left hand side of the page. The Thanksgiving Countdown idea is number 3. There are other wonderful ideas here as well.

Have a wonderful day!

Blessings,
Kim

Look at my beautiful preteen!

After about 2 years of consultations and check ups, the day finally arrived!



Here she is before. All smiles and excited!
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Here she is during...Not so much with the smiles, but still excited!







And here she is after! Ta da! Still smiling, but *ouch* it hurts a little more than she expected. Still excited though!






I think it is interesting how getting braces is looked at now as a right of passage for kids. Something many of them look forward to with great anticipation and excitement. When I was her age, it was something we looked forward to with great dread and a little fear. So funny!