{"id":18788,"date":"2013-11-16T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/?p=18788"},"modified":"2013-11-15T16:35:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T21:35:29","slug":"30-days-of-gratitude-day-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/30-days-of-gratitude-day-16\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Days of Gratitude: Day 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>SugarBabe Natalie shares a fun project she&#8217;s thankful for.<\/h2>\n<p>I like to do &#8220;projects&#8221; with my girls. However, they are young. I have a 4 year old and two 2 year olds. Since they are so young, sometimes when I am planning projects or searching Pinterest, I have to file ideas away for future use. A few years ago, a blogging friend did a Thankful tree with her kids and I filed that information away for when my kids were old enough to participate. This year, I decided we were going to try it out. I&#8217;m quite a bit of a perfectionist and have high expectations each time we do projects or go on adventures . . . but I told myself that we would just go with the flow and see how it all turned out. I really didn&#8217;t think the girls were mature enough to do this, so my husband and I didn&#8217;t put a lot of effort into designing the trunk and leaves. We just did it quickly and sat the girls down to discuss what being thankful is. It was a rough beginning, but after we started adding leaves, the girls got very into it. Now they look forward to it each night. We don&#8217;t coach their answers, so a lot of their leaves are covered with specific toys (ponies) or things that they can see around the house (like cups), but it&#8217;s a wonderful thing to be thankful for these simple things too. I like that we don&#8217;t coach their answers . . . our tree displays a true representation of who they are right now. Plus it makes the deep answers like &#8220;Jesus&#8221; and &#8220;Daddy&#8221; more meaningful. (I&#8217;ve yet to get a &#8220;Mommy&#8221; answer. . . .) In the end, I&#8217;m really impressed with my girls and thankful I decided to do this month long project with them (and that they are participating!). \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thankful-Tree.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18791\" title=\"Thankful Tree\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thankful-Tree-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SugarBabe Natalie shares a fun project she&#8217;s thankful for. I like to do &#8220;projects&#8221; with my girls. However, they are young. I have a 4 year old and two 2 year olds. Since they are so young, sometimes when I am planning projects or searching Pinterest, I have to file ideas away for future use. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":18791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18788"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18813,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18788\/revisions\/18813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}