...chocolate air...: o thanksgiving tree, o thanksgiving tree.

someone else's thoughts

"The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity." - Margaret Nadauld
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." - Helen Keller

22 November 2007

o thanksgiving tree, o thanksgiving tree.

At the beginning of the month, Zach and I pulled out the brown and purple paint and went to town on a big roll of paper. We painted an area of about 3x4 feet and let it dry. Then I sketched and cut out a really ~~ugly~~ simple tree trunk with a few branches. After we cut out about a million construction paper leaves, we were ready.

All month we've been writing down things we're thankful for, and then adding the leaves to our bare tree with sticky-tack. My favorites from Zach? Aside from the fact that he wrote "food" on about a dozen leaves, there is also "Dad comes home", "fishing", and my favorite, "I, Zach".

Such a happy life.