Remembering Thanksgiving

I love Thanksgiving. I love the idea of setting a day aside to remember how truly blessed we are and I love gathering with my family and making a tradition dinner that I have poured my heart into. I plan the menu a month in advance and even get my children involved with the table decorations, choosing desserts and cooking, but this year I wanted more. I remember a friend telling me that last year they put up their Christmas tree early and decorated it with messages of gratitude. I loved the idea, so this year we have a Gratitude Tree. Each Monday night we gather for our Family Home Evening and sit around and list the things that we are grateful for. The kids especially have amazed me with how quickly they come up with words of gratitude. I type up the ideas, as well as their names, while they list at least two things they are thankful for and then we attach them to a leaf and hang them on our tree. I love Thanksgiving!