One of my favorite traditions is our November Thankful Turkey where we each say what we are grateful for every day leading up to Thanksgiving (usually I keep it going till the last day of November, but this year we had a Christmas tree competing for space so we ended it early). I love that we can slow down and express gratitude for the big and small blessings we see every day, so when President Nelson issued his #givethanks challenge in his special message of hope and healing I was nodding right along. I absolutely believe gratitude can help us be happy, even in hard/weird/stressful/pandemic/election 2020 years.
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| We were on the road for the first week of November, so we improvised with a sketch of our thankful turkey in my notebook I kept in my purse on our trip. |
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| When we got home, we transferred our thankfuls onto feathers to hang on the wall with the turkey. (You'll see that this year is the year of the creative turkey tail. And you'll also see home church streaming on the TV - something I'm thankful for, but I don't think I ever mentioned on the feathers.) |
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| Another Sunday, another Thankful Turkey photo-op. (They just looked so nice and clean and dressed, I had to document. ;) |
So, without further ado . . . here are our lists (in no particular order, though looking back I can tell which days some of the items were added based on what was happening in our life each day during the month, and that is a kind of fun time capsule element that I love about this tradition).
Mom:
bike path
adventures with my family
school supplies
my family
my grandpa and grandma
books and blankets
soup
UDisc App
kids
hide and seek
hikes
ear plugs
sunny, blue sky day on the lake
Mel
windshield wipers
President Nelson
walks in the woods
Biden/Harris win
no cavities
snacks
electricity
Gregg
masks
Pineview
dejunking
my kids
Dad:
bike paths
post cards
lasagna
packing snow
Steve Nance
snow
graph paper
rollover data
pie
Monopoly Deal
sun
Google maps
Ryan and Lea's hospitality
Fridays
chicken salad wraps
campfires
bikes
my parents
battery chargers
parks
games
helicopters
disc golf
Figma
brave kids
going hiking
Callie:
art for kids hub
water color pencils
Jesus Christ
ZOOM
deal breakers
Minnie and Dad
Mom
Pizza Hut
COVID-19
dinner
parks
Lea and her dinner
Ben and Jerry's
fireplace on tv
good working car
PJs
good working bike
our home in Utah
family and friends
But Why? podcast
Thanksgiving
FHE
science/grampa and gramma/Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
Nordic Valley
Thankful Turkey
The Friend
Sam:
Dad
NASA
FHE
Dad and track
Mom
hot wheels video
football
Dragon Tail (car)
disc golf
games
disc golf
getting to Ryan and Lea's
Teddy
pizza
this trip
LM (One night Sam was in a hurry to write all the thankfuls so he just wrote initials for everyone's item. We decoded what everyone else's letters meant, but still can't remember what this one means! Our best guess is Lambeosaurus . . . ha!)
we got to see the railroad
that we got home
Ted
disc golf
UNO
Dad
Maddox
Cal
Pat's
noodles and white sauce
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| Did you notice how Callie's face changed with every snap, but Sam's sweet smile stayed darling and cute the entire time? HA! |
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| A new element of this year's feathers was Sam's handwriting making its debut - it makes me happy to see him trying to write and spell! |
I love to look back on turkeys of yore, so I compiled the links here for easy clicking, if you want to check them out too: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014.
And we are THANKFUL for YOU!!!
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