Happy Week of Thanksgiving! Even if you’re one of our international friends and not really celebrating this U.S. holiday, let’s each make this week focused on personal thanksgiving and gratitude for our blessings. If you’ve been taking a picture-a-day with me this year and you’d like to join me in a little assignment, I challenge you to make every single one of your daily pictures this week something specific that you are thankful for.

Each day that I post this week, I will share something(s) that I’m thankful for. Something little & specific.

I am thankful for my children’s art and how they so enthusiastically express themselves every single day in this format.

I am thankful for opportunities to teach my children … and learn from them. With each frustrating moment of feeling tested, I am reminded that life, after all, is a test. How will I react to their mistakes? As I react or respond, will they know that I absolutely love them unconditionally in my tone and body language? I am thankful that our kids are so patient with me, and that they forgive so quickly and easily.

Yes, that is broken glass all over the kitchen floor because Claire wasn’t listening, and yes, I’m posting some Project Life FAQs today.