Sunday, November 14, 2010

When Gratitude Backfires

On Saturday afternoon I made cream of carrot soup with sandwiches for lunch. I love the soup, but it's not really one of Charlotte's favorites. We ended up getting her to eat it by putting many goldfish crackers in the soup. While eating the crackers she ate the soup.

At dinner we had Chili. It was Charlotte's turn to pray. Before she started we reminded her include the things she's thankful for. (To go along with our month long celebration.) This is how part of the prayer went:

"Dear Heavenly Father, thank you that there is no carrots in the soup for dinner."

Well, at least she's grateful for something right?

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Haha, that's pretty good!

dad said...

What a great little girl

Dan's mom said...

3 is a very "here and now" age. Charlotte was thankful that the chili was carrot free. It is a great goal to get them thinking about all the wonderful blessings that are ours but for young children, they live in "real tiem" and act accordingly. Still, she did remember to be thankful-