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    Gratitude Builders For Kids of All Ages

    ~Gratitude Builders ~         For Families “The root of joy is gratefulness…It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”  ― David Steindl-Rast After a bit of a bumpy week, I want to be flooded with gratitude! Truth be told, I’m thinking about those sweet faces in the picture above, and all the friends I am missing from the time we lived in Peru. I know I need to turn the melancholy feeling toward gratitude & I’m hoping in digging out some fun ideas to share this week, I’ll do just that! ‘Tis the season to reflect on all we have to…

  • My Dog and a lesson on Thankfulness

    Teaching Kids Thankfulness

     Teaching Kids ~ Thankfulness ~   Have YOU yelled at your dog lately ?!? Gratitude. It all started today with yelling at my dog, some fleas, cold coffee, and some dust bunnies. What does that have to do with teaching your kids about thankfulness ??? Here’s what’s floating around my mind (along with those aforementioned, dust bunnies 😀 ) Gratitude. But not in the “it’s-almost-Thanksgiving-and-I-need-to-hurry-up-and-be-thankful“ kind of way, more in the “stop-and-open-my-eyes-and-actually-SEE-life-all-around-me-and-be-thankful” kind of way. Gratitude takes a special kind of seeing some days. Sight, past the obvious. My recent version of obvious… I wake up. I make coffee. I Iet the dog outside. I see the obvious. I see…