SOOO MANY Things To Be Thankful For !

 

Oh how I enjoy my Thanksgiving decorations that come out on the first day of Fall !

The kids had so much fun this year decorating with our fake leaves- they were everywhere!

Our favorite family tradition to celebrate Fall is going to Starbucks for a yummy treat and their hot apple cider!

( I forgot to bring the camera –stinker ! )

This year I also bought from Pottery Barn Kids this GREAT count down calendar that arrived here just in time for October 1st.

I Loved the simple “give thanks” phrase on it…. without any other silly “turkey” decor.

I am the type of mom who does not celebrate the turkey, or the pilgrims at Thanksgiving …but I try my very best to point my family to the ONE who we receive ALL good things from!

At Christmas the honor goes to the one whom the honor is due. We learn about advent and the richness of the Christmas Season and baby Jesus - not the fat man in the red suit.

At Easter again, it is all about Jesus and what He did for us - not what the white bunny left or chocolate eggs combined.

I am so impressed by the things the kids are coming up with for our Thanksgiving count-down tree, that I have decided to keep the tree up in the school room all year round!

(as Fall looking as it is:)

Last night Mike did our family devotions on 1Thessalonians 5 :18 - straight to the point !

~ IN EVERYTHING give THANKS for this IS His WILL for you!

The one thing Mike was really working on with the kids was how this plays over into our attitudes, not JUST the things we say …do we choose to have thankful attitudes? ..b/c we do have the choice!

Our spirits emanate to others through our attitudes, whatever is truly going on in our thoughts and hearts. I think others are sometimes more aware of what is in us than we are!

OH DEAR !  I have some work to do ! I have gotten myself into quite slump over the last two years –…which have been the hardest and most humbling of my life-…none the less!!! My attitude really stinks some days!

When I am tired b/c I was up in the night with babies….. and I have spent all morning breaking up toddler fights -between the cranky people who woke me up in the night …..while I am trying to teach four different grades …..while II am still waiting for my coffee to kick in…..and while I am trying keep up with the house work so my dh has clean socks….it is hard to not think that I would just like them to play nice~ for just one day !!!! … or just go back to sleep when they wake up in the night… so I don’t have to start my days tired…..ect ect -instead of choosing to be thankful THAT ……

I GET to be HOME to teach and train them and their BIG personalities- instead of a strange daycare worker !

I  >>>>am the one who gets to kiss the owies better that they give to each other….

I ! >>>am the one they call to at night.. I am “mommy”~ that IS the best name in the WHOLE world !

I >>>>get to teach them to read ~and write ! 

I >>>>get to ENJOY my kids all day long!!…. good and bad so why not choose to focus on the good ?…it is just as easy!

I LOVE that I know them inside out they are wonderful people ~full of so many GOOD things!

For just  these few things I am truly, truly thankful--- when I think about it …and HERE - lies the solution ……simply taking the time to think about it !!!

One of my favorite blogs to visit is my friend Camille's over at www.FlowersInHisGarden.blogspot.com

SHE has some seriously amazing recepies and great wisdom to share !

Also, she has an on-going “thankful list” !

I JUST LOVED THAT IDEA when I saw it last year !

SO I am finally officially going to be looking too…on purpose, EVERYDAY, for those little things that I am sooo thankful for !!! and then to keep track of them I will put them on this here blog of mine:)