Thanksgivings Gone By

I miss my Carter family that I spent 15 Thanksgivings with. Those were my favorite thanksgivings!  We would see cousins and Aunts and Uncles.  Grandmas and Grandpas.  We said what we were thankful for, we wrote on a table clothe every year, we road four wheelers and went to the movies.  Sometimes we did  crafts after that.  I loved those holidays!  My Aunt Sandy and Uncle Gene put a lot of work into something we just walked into and enjoyed.  Yesterday I spent half the day preparing and pre-gaming!  But thinking of my kids and my sweet grandkids, I was enjoying every bit of it!  Today I’m stuffing my face, enjoying my sweet husband, loving on my kids and playing with my grandbabies and missing those that are no longer with us and those we can't spend our holiday with.  Just because life changes and we do things in a different place, in a different way, or with different people, doesn’t make it a bad thing.  It’s how the world works, and why you should be thankful for what you had then and what you have now.  

Count Down to Thanksgiving...

 

What Fall Looks Like at the Carter's

I'm Bi-seasonal

I broke tradition this weekend.  I started decorating for Christmas BEFORE Thanksgiving!  Even Dennis, who watched from his chair, said: You never decorate before Thanksgiving!  And he's right!  But my fear is that I will get COVID and be sick when it's time to decorate, then have like 2 weeks before Christmas to decorate and not want to because it's a lot of work for 2 weeks of viewing!  

So the front of my house is all Christmas'd out and the back half is Thanksgivingy!  And the sad thing is, I really want to decorate it all for Christmas already!!!! The struggle is real!   Except the one Pumpkin wreath that I made in one of Katie's craft classes. I love that thing and wish I could just keep it up all year long!  

I put a 6' tree up in my bedroom and it is FABULOUS... and I have one in the living room too.  I will put the big one up in the den on Thanksgiving Day after all the company leaves.  I also have 16 Christmas wreaths in my house!  I know... Ridiculous!  My goal is to have all the lite things on a remote so I don't have to unplug anything! 😁

But I am craving Thanksgiving food!  But that is probably because I am dieting and I know Thursday is my cheat day... or maybe the fact that I bought all my Thanksgiving dinner stuff a week ago and I'm ready to eat the stuffing!

Lazy Parenting

You lead by example.  

When you don’t do... your kids are watching. When you let the trash sit for days, when the dishes pile up, when there isn’t a clean towel in the closet.  Your kids are watching. 

When your yard is unkept or your car us full of trash your kids are watching. 

Is this how you are preparing them for life? 

Do you not want them to be successful? 

You can’t sit on your phone for hours while they stare at a screen.  What sort of parenting is that?  Why have a family if your not going to enjoy the few precious years you have with them?  

And they are fleeting.

Use your child’s early years to lay down a proper and strong foundation. Ethics, devotion, determination. Don’t allow these bad habits to settle in.