Virtue of the Month: Gratitude

This month was pretty simple. We read some stories about gratitude and thankfulness and then made a big felt tree on the wall in the making area and cut out lots of colorful maple leaves. Each morning we wrote down something that we were grateful for and stuck our leaf on the tree. It was an easy, nice way to keep the virtue in mind, to build on it and have something beautiful to look at as well. (Mostly beautiful... it would have looked better if Maryam hadn't developed such a fetish with attempting to remove the trunk every time she was in the area.) Now if I could just find a picture...