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I didn't bother with the story of Thanksgiving, figuring that would go way up high over her head, but I did try to expain why we're having the holiday, what being thankful is, and no, candy is what you get on *Halloween* which is over, sweetie.
So I explain that "thankful" is like "thank you", and we think about things we're happy we have. Then I tell her I'm thankful for her and her sister - something not too abstract, but not "I'm glad I have tons of toys" either. (They do a somewhat secular grace before dinner, so it's not that new a concept. Well, everybody does it secular but Ana, and we're not quite sure *what* the heck she's saying!)
And then to really drive the concept home, I ask "So, Ana, do you have anything you're thankful for?"
And she did, and there's no suspense here, she's quite predictably thankful for milk. "Because I have it with mommy, and I always have milk when mama's home, and I snuggle, and I like it, and I like milk."
We told her mom :)
I'm trying to fill up old blank days with entries, and I'll have to do a month's of haiku over the long weekend, so if you see a bunch of oddly dated entries, that's why.
So I explain that "thankful" is like "thank you", and we think about things we're happy we have. Then I tell her I'm thankful for her and her sister - something not too abstract, but not "I'm glad I have tons of toys" either. (They do a somewhat secular grace before dinner, so it's not that new a concept. Well, everybody does it secular but Ana, and we're not quite sure *what* the heck she's saying!)
And then to really drive the concept home, I ask "So, Ana, do you have anything you're thankful for?"
And she did, and there's no suspense here, she's quite predictably thankful for milk. "Because I have it with mommy, and I always have milk when mama's home, and I snuggle, and I like it, and I like milk."
We told her mom :)
I'm trying to fill up old blank days with entries, and I'll have to do a month's of haiku over the long weekend, so if you see a bunch of oddly dated entries, that's why.
