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Our favorite family day of the year is Thanksgiving so I wanted to share just a simple look into our blessing jar tradition. This simple, unobtrusive jar sits on our kitchen table throughout the year, reminding us to record our blessings on slips of paper to be opened Thanksgiving evening. This year was a little different for us as Joshua was at school most of the year and Rachel and Donny have now been married a year. I wasn’t sure if our little jar would be emptier this year. Thankfully it wasn’t! Rachel and Donny had written down blessings separately (Donny typed his) and Joshua filled out a few when he was home.
Here are just a few of our blessings from the past year:
Rachel kept safe during tire blowout in Kernersville
Yard sale-made $140 and got rid of stuff!
Mommy didn’t get lost in airport
Joshua to Vietnam and back
A new house to call home (Rachel and Donny’s)
strawberries with family
family game night
home from vacation – car trouble the last hour but it was ok!
Adams Farm Community Church
letter from adult adoptee
25th wedding anniversary
having help and support to finish home renovation projects I am not talented at (Donny)
my new friends
I pray your Thanksgiving was as blessed as ours! What family traditions help define your family?
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I love your blessing jar idea. That is awesome. Happy Thanksgiving.
Thank you, April, for visiting Marty’s Musings and my blessing jar post. We are indeed blessed and I pray your year has been the same.
Marty
That is a lovely tradition, and your family was certainly blessed this year! May it always be so.
Thank you, Sandra, for your always encouraging comments. My family is indeed blessed and enjoying this moment in time. Hope yours is as well.
Blessings!
Marty
What a great idea!
When my husband and I were first married, we didn’t bother trying to define family traditions, instead keeping with the ones we’d grown up with. I think this is fairly common, but it’s kind of sad, as I think about it.
Now that we have our little one, we’ve been intentionally focusing on creating traditions that she can grow up with, and I love this one. I think we’ll be implementing it this year!
-Carlie
PS: I’m here from the Better Mom Monday linky!
I found you blog hopping from Titus Tuesday. I love this post it is so sweet! What a great idea!!
Blessings,
By His Grace,
Adrienne
What a wonderful idea, and what a lovely bunch of blessings you had to celebrate. I think I’ll keep that idea in mind for my own family this year.
Such a sweet idea. Love this!
I’m catching up on the blog world. I always love visiting Marty’s Musings. We also have a blessing jar that I started last year. My children, husband and I write notes randomly to place in the jar. SOmetimes they are simple like “I was on green at school today.” Other ones are more heart-felt, “I am thankful that Jesus loves me even when I don’t do my best.” It brings tears to my eyes just thinking at how innocent and wonderful this tradition is.
Joyfully in Him,
Dorcas
How fun! I made a jar but forgot to fill them out! Opps….