Please leave us a comment regarding Blessings and Thanksgiving and what/how you will be teaching your children this holiday. You can earn 1 additional entry by bringing signed Christmas Cards from your children for our soldiers and turning them into Michelle Bucholtz. She will make sure they get sent to our troops and your kiddos will surely be a blessing to the recipients!
Here is a little info on the cards and what they are for:
Holiday Mail for Heroes Program
The holiday season is just around the corner and it’s time again to start thinking about being part of the 2011 American Red Cross Holiday Mail for Heroes. For a fifth year, American Red Cross and Pitney Bowes are partnering to ensure all Americans have an opportunity to send a touch of home this holiday season to members of our U.S. military, veterans and their families, many of whom will be far away from home this holiday season.
Starting this fall and throughout the holiday season, the Red Cross is working with Pitney Bowes, a mail stream technology company, to collect and distribute holiday cards to American service members, veterans and their families in the United States and around the world.
The process is very simple and takes no time at all - All you need is a pen and piece of paper to share your appreciation for the sacrifices members of the U.S. Armed Forces make to protect our freedoms The Holiday Mail for Heroes mail box is open and ready to receive for your cards.
Good Luck Ladies and have a wonderful week full of joy!
XOXO
Amber
P.S. If you cannot get the comment box to work, just hit annonymous and be sure to leave your 1st and last name within the comment.
Starting this fall and throughout the holiday season, the Red Cross is working with Pitney Bowes, a mail stream technology company, to collect and distribute holiday cards to American service members, veterans and their families in the United States and around the world.
The process is very simple and takes no time at all - All you need is a pen and piece of paper to share your appreciation for the sacrifices members of the U.S. Armed Forces make to protect our freedoms The Holiday Mail for Heroes mail box is open and ready to receive for your cards.
Good Luck Ladies and have a wonderful week full of joy!
XOXO
Amber
P.S. If you cannot get the comment box to work, just hit annonymous and be sure to leave your 1st and last name within the comment.
Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday because it's a great time to reflect with the entire family including extended what it is that we are all thankful for. This year we were blessed with our new baby Nathaniel. We can't wait to celebrate our first Thanksgiving with him and the rest of our family.
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Krystina Gottschlich
I really love this time of year too! We made an advent calendar the size of Cole from felt! Instead of popping candy in the pockets, we sit down each night and write our blessings out on a card and then tuck those into the pockets. Then we clip them onto a binder ring and put them in our memory box...we can pull the old ones out each year and see what was going on and where we were and how far we have come. I love hearing what Cole is thankful for! They are the most fun!
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I am defintely going to do a thankful tree on Thanksgiving. We are driving up to Idaho for Thanksgiving and our plan is to do a couple of devotions with the kids about being thankful. We have been so abundantly blessed this year and this will be a perfect time and setting to talk about those blessings.
ReplyDeleteLast year we started the thankful tree tradition. I traced the kids hands on fall colored construction paper and used them as the leaves and a place to write what they were thankful for. We will do the same thing again this year as well. We are also filling a box with a preset list of food for a family that may not otherwise get a Thanksgiving meal. We will pray over the box before it's delivered on Sunday and be sure to remind the kids that they are so very fortunate. Gina P.
ReplyDeleteLove those pumpkin pies and the thankful tree has been really fun this year. Thanks for all of the fantastic ideas! Kelly Bermudez-Deutsch
ReplyDeleteI love that Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on what you're thankful for and to honor passed traditions that have been passed on but I didn't really grow up with a specific tradition and my hubby's family didn't really celebrate Thanksgiving at all growing up in the Philipines. I try to be thankful year-round and the kids and I are constantly talking about what we are blessed with and about what's going on in other parts of the world and my childhood. I feel I'm so blessed by my family and the fact that we have all that we need. It's important to me that we are always thankful and my 6 yr old has been praying for a few years now and he always thanks God for everything from family to friends to all that we have. We always end up at someone else's house for Thanksgiving so as they grow up and I have a family I can make a big meal for, I'm eventually going to want to cook the meal myself and have something special for us to do. Still collecting ideas from others. I have to admit that once November 1st rolls around I'm already decorating for Christmas, lol.
ReplyDeleteI love Thanksgiving. It is a time to get the family together and talk about all that we are thankful for. This year my parents live a lot closer and we have a new baby to add in to the mix. We also do an advent calendar. Everyday the boys take turns writing on a card all that they are thankful for. We save them so we can look back at them every year. Last year cards said things like rollercoasters and stuffed animals. This year were things like a nice house, food and family. Great to look back and see how the kids and the things they are thankful for have grown.
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We have a thankful box and my kids write notes or scribble through out the month and place them in the box. We get to read them or admire the artistic creations on Thanksgiving day.Julie R
ReplyDeleteThanksgiving is a time for us to be with friends. WIth our family spread out we have our adopted family get together, I am so blessed by my Christ following friends that I have so much to be thankful for. Hubby and I have started a new tradition. We have all the Thanksgiving goodies and festivities and after kiddos are ready and in bed our sitter comes over to sleep and we have a Black Friday shopping date.....I know it is part of the commercialism but we enjoy the weird giddy feeling of being out in the middle of the night with no kiddos and spending time together. xoxo Lynn
ReplyDeleteI am showing my thankfulness to my toddler by doing one thing each day extra special so he knows mommy cares about what HE wants and not always things he has to do. I also love showing him how I care for others by helpingout those les fortunate andi hope he will remember anddo he same ashe grows into a person. Thanksgiving Is such a great time to remember what god hs given us andhow fortunate we are.
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