Have you ever thought about how much more time is spent preparing a Thanksgiving spread and cleaning up afterward, than sitting at the table and eating it?
What if I offered you a remedy of amazing proportion to hold your family and friends around the table just a little bit longer?
{Please continue reading over for cultivating a mindset of gratitude beyond the turkey dinner!}
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Thank you for sharing this idea. At our house we
tell verbally what we are thankful for but this
is a much better idea.
I thought of something else. Suggest that
each one keep a list or put a note in their
own box for things they are thankful for
during the year. This will remind us all
to be thankful – “In every thing give thanks.”
during the year. And especially help our
children to be thankful for what they have.
Well, incourage would not accept my comment, but wanted to say the Thankful Box is a wonderful idea! I have had so many financial and health difficulties in the past few years. Lately I found I was whining too much. Ashamed, I sat down and had a talk with them about how thankful I am that we have so much – just to have each other is the whole world. I am single and longed for children – they are adopted from China, something I in no way could afford to do, but they are here! We talked about families who would think we were spoiled rotten and stinking rich as my daughter put it to have just a nonleaking roof and food every day. We are doing Operation Christmas Child boxes right now, which is our tradition for this time of year – sacrificing our eat-out-at-Chic-fil-A money for a few weeks to purchase things for children less fortunate, and I am also thinking of getting a Family Gratitude Journal where we can each write in at least once a week to list what we are thankful for that week. It will make a nice family keepsake, I think.