Today I’m excited to share this guest post from my mom!  I know you’re going to love this idea for celebrating Thanksgiving in a tangible way!

Hi!  I am Valerie, the blessed mother of my dear daughter Aliesha…and “MiMi” to those adorable kiddos, Vera, CC and Jude.  Along with their hubby/daddy, Tad, they are some of my most precious blessings!

For the past three months, I have been part of a great Bible Study on gratitude, using the book Choosing Gratitude by Nancy Leigh DeMoss.  It has been a wonderful challenge to obey God’s exhortation to “be thankful in all things.”

One young woman, Aimee, in our group has been endeavoring to teach her little ones about gratitude.  She has three little guys very near in age to Aliesha’s children (so we trade toddler stories!)  Aimee cut out lots of fall leaves and she made a “branch tree” to hang them on.  Each day she asks her boys what they are thankful for and after they give her their answer, she writes it on a leaf and hangs in on the tree.  I think she said she had to get a bigger branch since they had put so many “THANKFUL leaves” on the first one.

Aimee plans to use snowflakes after Thanksgiving and flowers in the spring.  Think what a family memory treasure this will be if she saves all of these thankful shapes in a box or book!

This is such a good way to create the contagious attitude of thankfulness…in our hearts and the hearts of our children and grandchildren.  Maybe it might be something you could incorporate into the life of your family!

Thanks for letting me share this little idea!
Love,
Valerie