A Handful Feast for Ella

Today Ella celebrated Thanksgiving at school. Her class, the Sunshines (3 year olds), were the Indians and the Stars (4 year olds) were the Pilgrims. They play acted the first Thanksgiving then shared a feast. The feast was comprised of handfuls of 30 different treats. Each student brought a handful of nuts, raisins, cereal, chocolate chips, etc. (Ella choose to bring yogurt covered pretzels) and then learned how just a handful doesn't look like much until it is shared, then it becomes a feast!

For homework, Ella had to decorate a Thankful Bag (she choose to use bingo dobbers, stickers and glitter) and fill it with items she was thankful for. In Ella's bag were a picture of our family, a picture of her friends, some animals, a book, a shirt and some play food. She picked out these things on her own and has been thanking God for the blessings in her life each night this week.

We are going to celebrate God's goodness with some members of our extended church family, the Wickers, this year. Though we will miss our immediate family and the VM traditions , we are thankful to have good friends to play and eat with. One VM tradition is to go around the table and say what we are thankful for. Ella has already shared. What are yours? Let's participate as a community, leave us a comment! (Do it after Thursday if you don't want to spoil your big speech!) I'm predictable this year. I'm so thankful for my devoted and hard-working husband and our wonderful children. I'm thankful for the network of siblings, aunties, uncles, cousins, grandparents and church family who love and and take such good care of us.