Happy Thanksgiving!

So, I have this notebook that I got in Relief Society a couple of weeks ago. It's supposed to be my gratitude journal. I haven't been very good at recording in it. I have, however gotten it out  a few times and had the boys list what they are grateful for.

Here is Tuesday's list (only a few of which were prompted by me). Whatever Ammon was grateful for, Sam was grateful for, too:

Airplanes, toys, helicopters, ships, books, backpacks, school (they're not even in school, yet), Santa Clause, sight (mom prompted), mouth (mom prompted), letters, jets, my name, black hawks, cups of milk, beds, clothes, Dad and Mom and Sam and Isaac and Ben (all mom prompted), "I love Kenny and Justin and balls and toys from their house" (Ammon's exact words. We were just at our friend Paulette's house for dinner the night before playing with Justin and Kenny), babies, food, and Heavenly Father and Jesus.

They loved doing the list so much that they had to do it again today. I told them they had to come up with different things, nothing was prompted this time:

Heavenly Father and Jesus, Thanksgiving, Songs - I am a Child of God, Grandma and Grandpa (okay, so that one was prompted), Grandma Cindy, scriptures, books, Kierstyn, Gabriel (cousins who live far, far away), playdoh, Amberlee (my sister who also lives far, far away), food, my neighborhood, friends, primary and nursery, my teachers, church, chairs to sit on, my name, the chapel, my neighbors, houses, pencils, coloring books, crayons, bed, tinkerbell, princesses, and kings, a prophet-President Monson (prompted).

I sent them off to play only to have them come running in the house two minutes later yelling "I'm grateful for grass and weeds and flowers and trampoline, and table."

I guess I need to learn to be grateful for the weeds.