Thankfulness

Ok, so if you read this blog at all, and I'm not counting that anyone is, yes, I'm cheating, I am working on past blog posts, that I wanted to do at the time but I didn't, so confession...this is one of those.

We have a tradition at our house, it started when we were getting married, we put up the Christmas Tree on November 1st.  Then every day we wrote down something we were thankful for on an index card and placed it on the tree.  Sometimes we would do more than one.  And if any guests came over we invited them to write what they were thankful for on the tree as well.  Since we were getting married that first year, we had lots of guests come through and lots of them took us up on our offer to write down something they were thankful for.  What fun that was.  We may still have the cards in one of the Christmas boxes, we did save them for a while.  When our first child, "A" came into our lives that next year, i don't think the thankful tree made it up and it has taken on different forms over the years, but this year i think we found a happy mix, a thankful tree that doesn't take up a lot of space, has room for writing down what you're thankful for and makes for a nice display, what do you think?

"O" caught me taking pics and decided she needed to be in them.  :-)