Friday, November 27, 2009

Reasons To be Thankful



Miriam helped me set the Thanksgiving table and she also came up with an activity that we could at the table.  She put a folded sheet of printer paper under each plate.  In between servings of mashed potatoes and stuffing, she asked everyone to write one thing that we are thankful for.  Then we had to pass the paper one person to the left.  Then we had to think and write something we're thankful for which is related to the first one on the list.  Then pass the paper again one to the left and did the same thing until the paper got to first person who wrote on it.  Here's the result...

  • Pie
  • Spending time with my kids
  • Eating ribs and pumkin pie
  • Having people over for a meal
  • Custard or whipped cream
  • Travelling
  • Suitcases
  • Blankets in planes
  • Visiting new places
  • Shopping in other countries
  • TMTV
  • Checkhov (turtle)
  • Shared mivie jokes/quotes
  • Pride and Prejudice and other British movies we like
  • Time in between watching Jane Austen, classic, and other related movies
  • Nights with my family
  • breakfast together and donuts
  • Tables
  • Custard donuts
  • Dreaming about the amazing race
  • For the person who led me to Christ - Peter
  • Potatoes
  • Cucumber
  • Baked Lays
  • Friends who remain friends over a whole life
  • Daddy's job
  • Computers
  • Laptops
  • Computer games
  • Pineapple Upside-down cake
  • Working at home
  • Going out to lunch on Mondays
  • Getting all my music lessons over with on Mondays
  • Tickle fights
  • Going to the library on Mondays
  • Kuya's Marble Shooting Robot
  • Creativity
  • Legos
  • Gardening and homemade planters
  • Inspiration/Light-bulb-turning on ideas
  • Long good books
  • Fireplaces
  • House with three fireplaces (even if only two work)
  • Heaters
  • Borders
  • Time in between getting haircuts
  • Razors
  • Getting haircuts
  • Kids laughing together
  • Beautiful smiling kids
We also had a different list on the fridge which got updated everyday for a week by anybody (in the Lewis family) before Thanksgiving:
  • The Bible
  • House
  • Our family
  • Pie
  • Smart kids
  • Sunny mornings
  • Foggy mornings
  • Rainy days
  • Sleep
  • Milk
  • Awesome parents
  • Music
  • Van Gogh
  • Cushy pillows
  • heaters on the bus
  • Costco
  • Chicken bakes
  • Good health
  • Dad has good job
  • Enough to help other people
  • Books
  • True friends
  • Librarian
  • Loving brother & sister
  • AWANA
  • Good schools
  • Memories
  • Relatives
  • Knowing God
  • Family's faith
  • Cameras
  • Kids get along
  • Down comforters
  • My turtles
  • Good schools
  • Saturdays
  • Birthdays
  • The movie "Titanic"
  • Applesauce
  • Pomegranites
  • Persimmons
  • Warm bread
  • Rolls
  • Devils Food Cake
  • Steady job
  • Chances to travel
  • The Actis family
  • My wife
  • Popovers
  • Canned stewed tomatoes
  • Sausages
  • Paper
  • Pens
  • Taste
  • Touch
  • Sight
  • Hearing
  • Smell
  • Kitchen appliances
  • Cookies
  • Potstickers
  • Hammocks
  • Pilgrims
  • Laptops
  • Relatives
  • Dollhouses
  • Cookies
  • Apple crisp
  • Danish cookies
  • Turkey
  • Potatoes
  • Cranberry sauce
  • Gravy

God gives us everything we have and enables us to do everything we do.  He allows us to enjoy and experience life to the fullest.  To Him be all glory and honor.

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