Remember the New Year’s Resolutions I made way back when? “Participate in Significant Celebration” was one of them. Over the past year I’ve put some energy and creativity into rethinking significant dates (Christmas and Easter, for example). Amidst that rethinking we initiated last year what I hope will be a lifelong family tradition, the Thanksgiving Tree.
It’s amazing what happens when we make an abstract idea tangible. The Thanksgiving Tree is our reminder to be grateful. Every time we think of something for which we are thankful, we write it down and hang it on the tree. It’s filling up fast!
Once Thanksgiving Day arrives, we’ll take all the cards down and read them. You can read the ones from last year here.
David Cole helping us find a good tree. We decided against the Banana tree. Mainly because they attract monkeys.
I love the Thanksgiving Tree idea.
We’re doing a Thanksgiving tree this year. We’re leaving our ‘thanks’ anonymous and going to guess who when we read them. I’m impatient so I’ve been secretly looking through them sometimes when the kids are otherwise occupied. There’s one in Micah’s (9 yrs old) handwriting that just says “Madeline.” I don’t know who she is or why he’s thankful for her. How do I not know this person who’s apparently important in his life?
OK - mystery solved. It’s not Micah’s, but Cori’s. And it doesn’t say “Madeline” it says “Medicine.”