Thankful Thursday

Today's Thankful Thursday was not a hard decision.  While we are thankful for so many blessings, one of the greatest is to live in such an amazing community with awesome neighbors.  To our left, is a young, sweet family that we have so much fun with.  Their kids are close in age to ours and love playing together.  One of my greatest joys is sitting on the front porch with a magazine or book and watching them play. 

On our right, is an elderly lady from our Church.  She is in her 90s and can't get out much.  She has so many folks checking in on her though that my hubby and I joke she has a better social life than us!  She is sweet as punch and we adore her.

So this week, H and I simply whipped up a batch of banana bread and dropped it off at each of their houses.

Surprise Banana Bread

 

Three guesses where I got the turkey printable???

 

 

I am still in shock Thanksgiving is a week from today.  HOW.CRAZY.IS.THAT???

 

xoxo,

TSS

Thankful Thursday

Yesterday we had our first Thankful Thursday.  I had so much fun with the boys Spooktacular Surprises in October and have already shared with you how I plan to celebrate Advent here - so this was just a fun idea to keep the suspense going.

Each Thursday, we are taking time to learn about the Thanksgiving holiday and to do something special for someone else.  And since our Church is already working on Samaritans Purse Shoeboxes, I thought that would be the perfect place to start.

Harrison has picked a 5 year old boy to pack a box for this year.  I shared with him the history of the project and explained to him how fortunate he was to have a nice warm house, warm clothes, warm food and more than enough toys to play with - that not all children had such luxuries.  I am not sure if he understood but last night when we said our prayers, he listed every single friend he knew and said he wanted to pray for them.  He told me how lucky he was to have good friends too.  Oh, sweet boy!  We will go this weekend to pick out the goodies and pack the box.  He can't wait and that warms my heart.

So we will do this every Thursday right up until Turkey Day.  Can't wait for next week's installment.

xoxo,
TSS