This is our thankful turkey.
He has visited our house for nearly 18 years (gasp!) now.
When Stephen and Zachary were just little guys, so very long ago, I started the tradition of the thankful turkey. Each day, starting November 1 or thereabouts, we each record something we are thankful for on a feather and add it to the turkey. By the time Thanksgiving rolls around, that turkey is fairly bursting with thankful feathers!
This was a great way to show little ones how much we have to be thankful for in our every day lives... and to show them that we could keep on adding thankful feathers seemingly forever and never run out of thankfulness.
We still do the turkey, all these many years later. Melissa, 12, has become our tradition keeper, for which I am grateful. We're looking forward to Thanksgiving dinner when we each grab a handful of feathers and take turns reading aloud all our family's thankfulness.
This year, we are saddened that my mom won't be able to be here with us for Thanksgiving. She had to cancel her plans for a visit due to some sudden health concerns. We will miss her terribly, but all of us are thankful for the excellent medical care she has and that her medical issue has resolved. She'll enjoy a Thanksgiving meal with friends and we will be thankful she is well again.
1 comment:
So happy some traditions never die! We may have to make one of those turkeys, very neat! Happy Thanksgiving!
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