Touching Your Heart

THANKSGIVING

Your brain may have immediately thought of the Christmas song, but I tricked you.  Miss Jodi has been quite busy lately and even a bit under the weather so I told her I would give this whole Thanksgiving post a try.  I’m not going to be as good at writing about all the wonderful things she does when it comes to Thanksgiving.  Not that I don’t love the holiday, just that there is no sense trying to top the best of the best when it comes to thankful days.

So in the Facebook world, I have noticed people posting “30 Days of Thankful”.  On a side note a friend of mine did 31 Breast Cancer Facts for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  Wish I would have thought to copy and paste them over here each day.  Maybe I will still get the info from her and share it.  Back on track… Go Robin!  Focus!

A friend of mine, Tami Wilson, posted on her blog today a way to incorporate the “30 Days of Thankful” into your family and have your kids be involved AND as a bonus you get a lovely keepsake.  Here is the link to Tami’s blog and the FREE templates that she designed for her son and shared with the world.  THANK YOU Tami!  The templates print on 8 1/2 by 11 paper so they are easily printed at home.  Just download her FREE templates and have a ball.  When I showed Jodi she asked if she had to draw a picture for each of the days.  Well, I think that was Tami’s way of keeping her son excited, but if you want to print a picture of someone or something and paste it in the square… that would be great to.

I know in the past we have shared via comments on the blog and on Facebook so, if you wish please feel free to share your ideas each day with us through the blog or on our Facebook page.

Thanks again to my friend Tami Wilson of Tami Wilson Photography (Denver, CO) for sharing the templates.

Have a wonderful November!

—robin—

Happy Thanksgiving MONTH everyone!!  In the spirit of being thankful all month, we are looking at ways to bring a little fun and inspiration your way.  One of Robin’s friends is doing a “30 Days of Thankful” and posting one thing a day to be thankful for for the whole month of November.  I thought this sounded like a perfect idea to go with what we try to bring out in you with the TouchingYourHeart.net blog, so….even thought it’s a little late in the day, I am challenging you all to do the same…with a little twist! 

The twist is this….I am asking you to “sign up” for the challenge!! Yep, you read that right!  I would like you to sign up to volunteer to do this challenge….FOR YOU! We all, including myself, tend to say we are going to do this, or going to do that, but do we really?  We usually start out great, but then end up putting it off, and then eventually end up not completing whatever it was we said we were going to do in the first place.  We have no accountability to help us stay on track!  Right?  So, I am hoping that by signing up for this challenge that you will make a deal with yourself to think of one thing daily to be thankful for, for the whole month of November.  You can post it on Facebook, Twitter, right here as a comment on the blog, your blog if you have one, you can email them to me if you want me to post them for you anonymously or by name on our Facebook page or blog, or you can simply email it to me just for accountability sake and I will keep it our secret   Or, just keep a daily journal for yourself!  Are you in?? I hope so!!

If so, send me your name or even just initials or state anonymous and I will add your name to our list of challenge participants and tell me how you plan on recording your daily thanks!  That’s it!  Hope to hear from you soon that you will be joining and you just never know whose life YOUR comment might make a difference in by reminding them of something to be thankful for.

Now, I know I am a bit late on this, so if you are joining in late, just go back and catch up and join us! You can jump in at any time! Just let me know!

30 Days of Thanks Challenge Participants

Jodi Tivey-TouchingYourHeart.net Facebook page

Jackie Freitag~Facebook

Diane Paulson~TouchingYourHeart.net blog or email

Jessie Haefner-Facebook

Tonya Tysver-Facebook

Steph Germann-TouchingYourHeart.net blog