Every Thanksgiving, I put my turkeys up on the dining room wall in some new design. This year, I added 3 new turkeys! One for Michael, Julianna’s newlywed husband. One for Joseph, my #6 grandchild, son of my son Nathan. One for Elizabeth, my #7 grandchild, daughter of my son Daniel. Our family is definitely growing!
This is an accidental tradition, but it always makes me smile to watch my grandkids, or my children, search for their own name when they come to my house. It makes us all feel like we belong. And we all stop and count the turkeys and marvel at our growing family! My married children are having lots of precious grandchildren, and with marriages too, we now have 19 turkeys to count, and 19 plates around the table for Thanksgiving (some years)!
What joy!
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Sister Hopkins, where do you get your turkey templates? Are they available for printing/copying? What a great idea. :O)
I just bought them at a school supply store. The dollar store might have something. Anything would do, like pumpkins or corn cobs, etc. Have fun!
Oh, I love this tradition, Diane! It's so fun to see how your lovely family has grown over the years!
I was just thinking of doing something like this for our family, but on a less 'seasonal' basis. I saw the wrought-iron family "tree" that was made for the Duggars not long ago and thought it would be an excellent idea to have one done for our family as we grow and expand! We've just added our first son-in-law two weeks ago, so prayerfull soon there will be another leaf on our family tree to go on this new "branch"!?
Your turkeys look wonderful! What a flock you have!