Date: ___________________
Costs: ___Candy and card making supplies - Varies_________________________________Patch - $2__________
Directions: Listed below are 10 steps to complete. After each one get Miss Anarcadia or Beta-Pup to mark them off. At the end, turn in the sheet and patch fee to receive your patch (to be ordered). Be sure to deliver any cards you make. While this is Thanksgiving related, it can be done at any time.
1. Thanksgiving is a time for giving thanks. But what does it mean to be thankful for someone or something? What does gratitude mean? Talk about thankfulness either in a group or journal about it.
- Google's dictionary gives 'thankful' as 'please and relieved' or 'expressing gratitude and relief'. And it gives 'gratitude' as ' the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness'. So gratitude is about being aware of the impact someone or something has on you, and being thankful is about acknowledging that.
2. There are many things you can be thankful for. Think of something big in your life that you are thankful for. Now think of something small. What’s something you are thankful for from today?
- This month we're doing a daily 'I'm thankful for' on Facebook. The biggest things we're grateful for are all people - Boss, our kids, and our friends and family. Something small to be thankful for... mini ice-cream sandwiches in our freezer. And from today... sitting at home watching a movie with Boss.
3. Think of someone in your life you are thankful for. Maybe a partner A close friend The friendly cashier who always has a smile when you get coffee? Your favorite stuffie for always being there for you for cuddles? Make a card for them to let them know how thankful you are for them.
- I made a card for our metamour, who helped me work on a bunch of my badges, so I drew the badges on her card to thank her for that work specifically.
4. How does it make you feel when someone tells you “thank you?” Talk about it with a group, with a few friends, or journal about it.
- important, happy, embarrassed, appreciated, warm & fuzzy
- important, happy, embarrassed, appreciated, warm & fuzzy
5. Thanksgiving wouldn’t be complete without turkeys! Make up a turkey to “gobble” up using different types of candy. Use a nutter butter for the body, a peanut butter cup for the base of the tail, candy corn for feathers, jelly beans for accents, and extra peanut butter to hold it all together.
- I made two!
- I made two!
6. Did you know that the turkey is partly picked for Thanksgiving because it is a uniquely American animal? What are some unique things in your life that you are thankful for?
- Being a multiple. Being a kinky geeky poly queer multiple.
7. While Thanksgiving is a great time to remind ourselves to be thankful, it’s good to show gratitude all the time. What some ways we can express thankfulness in our everyday lives?
- Being polite to people is a way to express thankfulness to them - saying thank you (and meaning it), listening to them, tipping well, being patient.
8. Thankfulness is a two-way street. For someone to be thankful, someone else needs to do something for them such as helping with a big project, helping someone to smile, or any number of things. What’s something you’ve done recently to help someone else?
- Our daughter needed a ride home from the airport when her landing time changed, so we skipped going to the club that night to take her home instead.
9. Do you celebrate Thanksgiving Do you visit family? Do you invite a bunch of friends over? What is one way you can help with the Thanksgiving celebrations you attend? What can you do to show you are thankful?
- Thanksgiving is also M's mom's birthday, so growing up they all went out to eat and did birthday stuff. This year we're driving up to Cincinnati to see her and her husband for Thanksgiving Day.
10. Come up with your own ABC’s of Thankfullness! Write out the alphabet and come up with something you are thankful for on each letter. For example:
A – Animals
B – Buttercups
C – Christmas
Etc.
- B - Boots
- C - Candy
- D - Daddy
- E - Edamame
- F - Family
- G - Gaming
- H - Hot Chocolate
- I - Internet
- J - Jokes
- K - Kinky People
- L - Little Scouts - Leather - Lego
- M - The Mark
- N - Naps
- O - Otters
- P - Pokemon
- Q - Queer-safe places
- R - Rope
- S - Sex
- T - Toys
- U - Uniforms
- V - Victoria
- W - Wonder Woman
- X - Xmas
- Y - Youth
- Z - the Zoo
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