Attitude of Gratitude, Paper Garland and Activity Days

It's Attitude of Gratitude Day!

1) I'm grateful for John who has been cleaning the house the last 2 nights as I've been out. A lot tends to slip when I'm pregnant, especially at this point where the most normal things cause me lots of hip and back pain, so it's been wonderful the last 2 nights to come home to a house that's even cleaner than I left it. I love my husband:)

2) This past week I've found a renewed appreciation for the plan of salvation and the sealing covenant. I can't go into why because it's a rather personal family matter to be putting up on my blog (at least at this point), but I can tell you that I am SOOOO glad right now that I have a knowledge of these things and I'm so grateful for the peace that they bring. It is so obvious through these things just how much our Heavenly Father really does love us and want nothing but the best for us.

3) I'm grateful for how happy the Christmas season makes me every year. There's a feeling that comes this time of year that I can't compare to much of anything else. It's amazing, I love it and I look forward to it every year. I'm also glad that Caleb has started picking up on it too (Ty just thinks it's great because he loves the lights on trees and houses).

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So yesterday the boys and I read the Polar Express book, which Ty loved, and then we watched the movie, which Caleb loved. They also watched Frosty The Snowman, Frosty Returns and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (all 3 are classic Christmas movies). Today we are making paper garland to decorate their room with. Ty has red strips and each one has the name of a family member (the boys' brothers, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins) on it. Caleb has the same in green. Ty will get to pick a strip out of his bag and Caleb will have to work on his letter recognition skills to find the name that matches from his bag. I'm excited that I found a way to work his "school" work into a craft. Hopefully he goes for it.

Also, I had Activity Days last night and it was the last night for one of my favourite girls. She earned her Faith in God award about a month ago, which made me really happy/proud. It has been wonderful to have her in Activity Days and I will miss her so much. She brought a cake to share with us and made me a wonderful card that I absolutely love. Now I don't have any girls moving up to Young Women until September.

Well, I should get going for now. 16 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS:)