Two Little Turkeys

Everyone keeps saying how it feels like this Thanksgiving has crept up on them,

and I feel the same way.

Being sick last week put a halt to some of our plans.

It's ok, though.  We are excited to spend time with family and give thanks together!

I've been busy keeping up with my two turkeys.

Audrey Kate is a climber, for sure. She is also T-R-O-U-B-L-E, all day, every day.

She makes me earn my stay-at-home mom salary. (In fact, I hope to recieve a Christmas bonus this year.)

Even the sweet workers at our last MOPS meeting were a bit astonished by her. As all the boys and girls were outside playing, Audrey Kate decided that she would rather be in the sand box, which just happened to be on the other side of a pretty tall fence. That didn't stop her from scaling the fence and helping herself to some sand play!  She knows what she wants---and she WILL find a way to get it.

While that personality trait might serve her well later on in life, for the time being, it is frustrating and keeps me on my toes.

Like last week when she used Abby's dresser drawers as steps to climb up to the fish tank and dump an entire package of fish food in with the poor (hopefully hungry) fish. Or the countless times a day I find her in the bathroom "brushing her teeth" or "washing her hands" in the sink. 

Or when she wants something out of the refigerator?

Why, she just takes it herself.

She is such a MESS! An adorable, cuddly, sweet mess who asks me a dozen times a day,

"Mommy, will you be my fwiend?"

and says things like, "Mommy, I wuv you berry, berry much. OK?"

As for my other little turkey....

I decided this year to make a Thanksgiving Tree, and I decided to make it from things I just had around the house.

We went outside to find branches in the yard, and since there was a complete lack of fallen branches on the ground...

we took a few from the trees. Abby had her own methods.

We placed our branches and cut out a few leaves from construction paper.

It turned out just fine, but next year I am going to use some sturdier branches. (Good thing Abby is starting to grow in her adult teeth--she might need them!)

I love being able to have a visual reminder of all that we are thankful for.

We have so much, none of it that we deserve.

I am especially thankful this year for the kindness of a Heavenly Father

who continually reminds me through His word that, in Christ, nothing I do can separate me from His love.

I pray that you all have a marvelous Thanksgiving!

Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth. Worship the LORD with gladness;

come before him with joyful songs. Know that the LORD is God.

It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise;

give thanks to him and praise his name.

For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;

his faithfulness continues through all generations.

Psalm 100