Thanksgiving Focus

I stumbled into a great idea for making Thanksgiving a day of thanksgiving!

At 8am I grabbed a sheet of paper and asked G to name 3 things he's thankful for.

Mama
House
Neighbors

I told him 3 things I'm thankful for.  Listed them.  Done.

At 9am we each added 3 more things.

We repeated it every hour.  Or - whenever I remembered.

Towards the end of the day, he was randomly approaching me:

"Kitchen, Mom - write I'm thankful about our kitchen."

"We already wrote down kitchen, G.  We sure are thankful that God gave us a kitchen, huh?"

"Then write down stove.  I'm thankful about we have a stove."

At dinnertime when we prayed, we prayed through the whole list, thanking God for everything.

Super simple idea - but it kept the point of the day in front of us all day.  And Friday he was still talking about things he's thankful for.  Loved it.

Now if I can just figure out how to keep the Christmas season about Christ...