I am thrilled to be taking part in the Blogger Stylin’ Home Tours, Thanksgiving 2014, hosted by the gracious Lindsay of White Buffalo Styling Company.

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The Blogger Stylin’ Thanksgiving Tour is not so much about home tours. Which is a good thing, since our home is currently turned upside down with a few renovations, big and small. The Thanksgiving tour is about the HEART of our homes. So in that vein, I am excited to share a tradition from our own family with you!

The Thanksgiving Feast always makes me think of one of my favorite scripture verses:

“Better a meal of vegetables where there is love, than a fattened calf where there is hatred.” – Proverbs 15:17

Despite all of its grandeur and abundance, the beauty of Thanksgiving is that it is a celebration of ENOUGH.

We have enough.

 In the spirit of “Enough,” our family started a tradition to help us remember the heart of Thanksgiving:

A life of faith and trust

A spirit of thankfulness

A perseverance despite the most challenging circumstances

A feast-attitude despite the size of your portion

A life of Enough

The Five Kernels of Thanksgiving

{a simple tradition of thankful hearts}

1.  To honor the hardships associated with the first Thanksgiving, each place is set with 5 simple kernels of corn. A bare plate, with just these kernels.

Even as we are about to feast, with the glorious smells of food all around us, and shimmering cups waiting to be filled, these kernels break into our plenty and remind us that Thanksgiving is all about the Enough.

2. We ask our kiddos what they remember about the first Thanksgiving, and what was so special about it. We get our little history lesson in. : )

3.  Each one of us makes a list of 5 things that we were really thankful for over the past year. This is fun, because it sparks a conversation of all the wonderful things we experienced, and then gives us the opportunity to record these special times – in the simplest of ways: A list of five.

4. Then we go around the table and share our lists with each other. I definitely save our cards and date them. It is so fun to look back over the cards and enjoy the Thanks of years past.

Some years, we write our cards before dinner. Other times, we have done this between dinner and dessert. But our empty plates always start with those simple kernels, before we scoop on our first bit of delicious goodness.

That’s it. So simple. So do-able. A beautiful tradition, all about thankfulness.

The way it should be.

I hope that this very simple Thanksgiving tradition will help you to pause, in a very easy, but very meaningful way, to remember all of the Goodness.

May your Thanksgiving be rich and filled with the awareness of your Enough.

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Thank you again, Lindsay, for hosting such a special Thanksgiving blog tour. {for the entire line up of awesome bloggers, head over to this post at the White Buffalo Styling Company}

I invite you over to enjoy Thanksgiving with The Chronicles of Home, the next fabulous blogger in our line up!

Visit the rest of today’s tour participants:

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