Our Thanksgiving Tree

Once Halloween rolls around it as if everyone forgets about Thanksgiving.  It becomes this forgotten holiday between Halloween and Christmas.   I am not sure when this took place but I wanted my children to remember what Thanksgiving is about, why we celebrate it, and truly take the time to think about what they are THANKFUL for,

For our family this is especially important because we had ancestors on the Mayflower and the Speedwell.  When I think about what the Puritans went through as they made the perilous journey to America I am in awe.  I do not know if I would have been that committed or had that much faith to make the trek during that time. 

This year our family started a new tradition, the Thanksgiving tree. 

We purchase the trees at Target and the silk around the bottom of the tree is from our nature Table.  These great silks were purchased from Gypsy Forest.  Each of the kids picked a few cards and wrote what they were thankful for.  Looking back, I need to be more specific since one of them said "Our Kindles".  However, the rest of them were actually more detailed and deeper than that one. 

Then when our friends and family came we had each of them do the same thing.  I then took a piece of twine and looped it to form a knot and hung them all on our trees.  We ended up having to put two of them next to each other because of the many things that we were grateful for.