September is Time to Appreciate!

Ways to Show Appreciation:

• Tell someone how much you appreciate them!
• Write notes – leave them around the house to be found.
• Encourage each other, especially when you see them struggle.
• Quiet, boring day – grab the kids and go for ice cream!
• Compliment the cook!
• Help with a chore you usually don’t help with.
• Give a HUG!
• Older kids: do something with your little brothers/sisters, something they enjoy.
• Declare tonight game night. No phones, TV or computers. Play together!
• Surprise a family member – small gift, do their chore, time with them, etc.
• Pay attention. Listen.
• Text something positive.
• Volunteer somewhere – as a family.
• Home Spa Day for Mom – do all her work for her one day.

Ways to Appreciate Anyone:

• Help someone load their groceries into the car.
• Bake cookies for the neighborhood.
• Go help a Senior neighbor with yard work.
• Pay for the car behind you at a drive-thru.
• Write a thank-you note to a teacher.
• Help a neighbor with a big yard project.
• Text/call and check on someone you haven’t heard from in a while.
• Take a group of friends to visit an assisted living home.
• Handwritten thank you or encouragement notes – mailed!
• Pick up trash you didn’t drop.
• Grab a friend and just go do something fun for no reason!
• SMILE!