Things I am Thankful For Day 23

DAY 23.  Our furnace.  From the mouths of babes...  For family home evening this week we made a thankful tree and all of us took turns listing the things that we were most grateful for.  I wanted to be able to write everything because the leaves were small and I wanted to be able to read them later.  And maybe I get a little crazy wanting everything perfect.  Ashton insisted that he could write his own and even got out his own marker.  I went a head and let him because he seemed so determined, but it was grudgingly.  I have to say he did a great job and there was only one we couldn't figure out what he had written.  I thought it said "friends" but he said no it says "furnace".  And I have to agree that I am also thankful for our furnace because it keeps us warm and cozy all winter long, but also because it taught me that I need to let the kids do more.  They are capable.  That sometimes the journey is more important that the destination. I insisted that I wanted it pretty and neat, but now the leaf I will treasure the most is the one I can't quite read....