Holiday Time

Now that it's November 1, I can officially start getting ready for all the upcoming holidays. I love Thanksgiving and Christmas (the reason I already have a Christmas design on here). I love the meaning behind these holidays. I want to try and make Thanksgiving more meaningful to my little boy this year. I always all the festivities but I want to focus on what it really means. My goal is to impress upon his heart a season of being thankful to God for all that we have. While we may not have near as much as everyone else, we are blessed in many many ways. I want him (and really me and hubby) to slow down, look around, and see all that we have and to turn to God and give the thanks and glory to Him. Just not completely sure how to go about doing that.

Some things I'm thankful for today~
* One week from today we will officially be on vacation for 8 days! It's our first family vacation in a year and a half. It'll also be our last one as a family of 3.  I hope to use some of that time to prepare for G's arrival and to do some fun family things.

* I was also excited this morning when I realized I'm only working 2 weeks this month. Because I only work 3 days a week, I'm off all of next week (due to the vacation) and then the week of Thanksgiving (because our days off fall on my typical work days).

* My brother and his family coming to visit the week of Thanksgiving. I can't wait to see my nephew and niece and love on them. W and my nephew A had a lot of fun playing together last weekend when my brother came to town so I know the boys are going to have a blast together.

* Only 8 weeks and 5 days until my due date. I'm so thankful for this little life. He's something I prayed for for a long time and I thought would never happen. I'm anxious to meet him and make our family more complete (I'm also very nervous at the thought of having two little ones to care for!)

* Hubby and I having more time as a family as I've gone to work part time this year. We don't always have a traditional weekend, but we've been blessed with at least one of his off days always falling on one of the days I'm home so we just treat that day like a Saturday. We may not have as much money or as many nice things, but we get to be a family more which is much more rewarding.

What are you thankful for today?