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We started it years ago, our dress up Thanksgiving tradition. The kids have always loved historical pretend play so every year at the local children's resale shop I buy what I can at the costume sale. Our costumes are well-loved and on high rotation,
always creating fun play days for the kids outside...and every year around our table to celebrate Thanksgiving.
Affectionately called our "back row", the little guys especially enjoy any chance they get to dress up (and paint their faces), learning all the while about the history of our country and the freedom we're able to enjoy living here.
We don't make all the extra fancy foods for this tradition, just the basics so our emphasis is really on the history lesson and all that we have to be thankful for. (We save the actual Thanksgiving Day for the extras...yum!) We spend the day cooking, enjoying each other's company, reading history books to the little ones, and watching a DVD on the pilgrims.
Traditions knit hearts to home and the holiday season brings out the best! We have much to be thankful for this year as we welcomed Beck home from the hospital, which made it an extra special celebration the day of our Thanksgiving tradition.
"I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,
and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High."
Psalm 7:17