What can I find to be thankful for?
Thanksgiving 2014. Ashlynn is 5 and Jace is 2. I love these little guys. This morning we made our annual thankful Turkeys. This year Jace answered yes or no to my suggestions, and Ashlynn for the first time came up with her own with little difficulty.
She’s thankful for her mommy (tear), daddy, Jace, and cousins. She loves seeing her cousins and will get to see them today.
I had her trace one of her hands after I had traced it in pencil, and she did a really good job. We crumpled up tissue paper and glued it on to work on some fine motor skills, and lastly I had her write her name; which is probably the one area that didn’t show much improvement from last year, but she’s trying and that’s important.
Jace follows along beside her. He colored his turkey and also glued on the tissue paper for feathers. He quickly lost interest and went off to play.
I like Thanksgiving for a lot of reasons, and the best being it’s a day where everyone is forced to think about what they are thankful for. Gratitude goes a long way in fostering happiness in my opinion, and this day is ripe with it.
Whatever the challenges one is facing, today is a day we can all look past those and focus on that with which we are truly blessed, because truth is, we all have things to be thankful for.
I’m thankful for the small family Cody and I have created together. I’m thankful for another year in which my kids can celebrate with both sets of Grandparents and aunts, uncles and cousins they know on both sides.
For food in my pantry, heat in my house, and clothes on my body. For careers we both love, for the children I’m honored to treat, and for a community of people who mean a lot to me that I never knew before apraxia wasn’t just something I treated, but something I’ve come to know very personally.
For my health and the health of my children and their happy smiles. For their snuggles and random kisses. For our carefree dances and silly faces.
For the everyday blessings that I take for granted.