A home made “thank you” from the heart

Chances are, these are two of the first words your Mama taught you to say.  I’ve watched our daughters spend time working with their children over and over, teaching them how to share and say "thank you."  Why is it that as adults we don’t say it often enough?  Have we outgrown the importance of telling someone that we appreciate what they’ve done for us?  I think that possibly it’s even worse than that.  We may “assume” they know we are thankful or possibly that their kindness or whatever was expected of them, certainly it wasn’t appreciated.  How did we get to the place where we don’t say these words?

Recently Marlene and I were able to help out a person with some photography they needed.  We were glad to do it!  The delicious cinnamon loaf you see above, was her hand made, personal, thank you.  She took her time, effort, labor and money to make this for us, just to say “thanks.”

How about you?  Is this simple phrase common in your daily life?  If not, why isn’t it?  No matter how old we are, or our position in life, we never outgrow the need to say, “thank you!”