Simple Gift Sunday: November 25, 2012

Family Tradition: The blesing jar is a daily reminder of God's blessings, written on scraps of paper throughout the year and opened on Thanksgiving evening together as a family.

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 … [Read more...]

Project Life August 2012 Week 4

Project Life August 2012 Week 4

I'm doing Project Life a little differently this year so instead of a picture a day I'm grouping pics by week. The layout I'm sharing this week contains pictures from my blog. The left layout contains a pic of my  no bake chocolate oatmeal cookies, den makeover, jewelry organizer, blessing jar, and easy enchiladas. I love having a layout of … [Read more...]

{Count Your} Blessing Jar

Family Tradition: The blesing jar is a daily reminder of God's blessings, written on scraps of paper throughout the year and opened on Thanksgiving evening together as a family.

Our  Blessing Jar is a family tradition that goes back to 1999. At that time we just had two children and couldn't possibly have even imagined the changes the next few years would bring, with both joys and trials. Our favorite family tradition occurs on Thanksgiving Day. We have lunch at our house for our family (our kids, my niece … [Read more...]

Thanksgiving 2011

Table set with green tablecloth, gold chargers, fine china and crystal and Thanksgiving arrangement

Many of our most cherished family traditions center around the Thanksgiving holiday. setting the tables on Wednesday getting a new oven (What? You don't get a new oven the day before the biggest home cooked meal of the year?) watching parades on tv Thanksgiving morning smelling turkey cooking in the oven last minute … [Read more...]