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    A DIY Gratitude Jar & My Experience

    Back at the end of 2016, I had the idea to create a DIY gratitude jar. The idea was to write down what I’m grateful for/happy about from each week. Naturally, I roped my family into it as well. At the end of every week, we would write down one thing we were grateful for. That was it. One thing. Now, if you know my family at all you would know that “thrilled” wasn’t a word that would be used to describe how they felt about this. Well, some more than others. I’m not going to call anyone out in particular but sometimes someone would have to write 2 things…