Giving Thanks - Day four

Today I am choosing to give thanks for my home. Our home is not big, it is not filled with treasures and items of great value ... but it is filled with love and it is a place of comfort. Even though I love to take trips or go on fun vacations, there's always a wonderful feeling of coming home. Back to the place where you can just kick your shoes off and relax. The place of warmth and memories and of feeling at peace.

Our home is filled with many, many memories. Photos and scrapbooks and moments that I think back on - moments of sadness and moments of great joy. All of these are contained in our home. It's the place where we moved when we were pregnant with our first child. It's the place that we are raising our little family. It's the place that we will create many memories and traditions in - we already have and will continue to make even more!

Our home is a place of learning and of growing. Even before we decided to home school our home was a place where we taught the girls about life and the world around them and about God and His great love for us. It's the place where the girls have grown right before our eyes. From pregnancy to babyhood, to toddler hood to preschool days and now on to elementary years. Time flies in this home!

Our home is a place where bonds are created. The bond of sisters, of Mom and daughters and Daddy and daughters. Where family and friends are welcome and accepted and (hopefully) feel at home here in this place. Our home is a place of rest ... the place where you come to lay your weary head. To get better when you feel sick and get rest when you are tired and worn out. It's a place where you'll find warm beds, comfy blankets and people to snuggle and love.
Our home is a place for fun! For long summer days in the pool or playing in the yard. For family gatherings around the holidays, for running and jumping in leaves in the fall. For learning to ride a two wheeler and playing with Barbies and having friends over.

Our home is a place where God is at the center. It's where we grow as individuals and where we teach by our example. Our home may be small, but we love it, we live in it and we wouldn't trade it for anything. Thank you God for blessing us with our home.