Spending the month of November thinking about the things that we are grateful is a discipline that I have tried to encourage in our family. We started with a tree that I put on the wall. We added leaves where the children (and parents) could write something that they were thankful for. Then I made a 3D tree from cardbopard and we put it in the middle of our table. Over the years I have saved the leaves. Last year I transferred some of the leaves into a notebook as decorations on some of the pages. I made a "Gratefulness Tree" on the cover to maintain the tree theme. Inside, I pasted the words to the song "10,000 Reasons." My goal is to list 10,000 things that we are thankful for! Last year we were preparing for a move and only added a couple items. I already have the book out this year and will be encouraging our children to add to it each day.
