Happy Thanksgiving!!!

We have a tradition each year in which we make a tree of thanks at the beginning of November. Each night at dinner, we go around the table, and everyone tells us something that he or she is thankful for and we write it on a leaf to hang on our tree. The girls have thought that it is funny that, as the trees outside are losing their leaves, our tree starts out bare and then becomes covered as the month progresses. It has been neat to hear them progress from looking around the room to find something to mention ("I'm thankful for the lights...") to more real and serious things.

Here are some of the reasons the Foreman family is thankful this year:

I'm thankful for.....

• Small group because I like to listen to Daddy play guitar. (K)
• God is a good God and He can take care of us. (D)
• God always supplies what we need. (M)
• A wife that loves me and takes care of me. (M)
• The good friends God has given to us. (MS)
• Snow! (MS)
• Our babysitter, Erin. (K)
• Good friends who love us and take care of us. (M)
• Fall, because it is beautiful and reminds us of how amazing God is! (MS)
• The yummy lunch Mommy and Daddy made and the leaves outside. (D)
• That God made the world and it tells us about Him. (K)
• My family. (M)
• My brother and my family. (D)
• God provided a lamb for us! (MS)
• That God created all things. (D)
• Snow! (D)
• My family. (MS)
• That God gives us rest from our work. (MS)
• My friends because God made them and they're nice to me. (K)
• Friends that are like our family. (MS)
• My wife is a good cook. (M)
• God is faithful all the time! (MS)
• The leaves because they tell us that God is beautiful! (K)
• Eating goldfish at church and praising God at church. (D)
• Trees, because they have beautiful leaves. (K)
• The holiday of Thanksgiving, because I like it! (M)
• My whole family! (D)
• My friends because I love all of them! (D)
• Our church. (K)
• We have a good God and He is in control. (M)
• Our church. (M)
• The horses show God's beauty. (K)
• My husband, who is a gift from God. (MS)
  

"Praise the LORD! Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His love endures forever!
Psalm 106:1