For this heart hug,
I want you to gather all of your family together in a circle.
Families come in all different sizes and shapes.
Family simply means a group of humans who love each other.
Take a minute and look at everyone in your family.
Now take a big breath in and let it out.
Wiggle your fingers,
Wiggle your toes,
And reach your hands up to the big blue sky and shake!
And stop.
Let's do it again.
Reach your hands up to the big blue sky and shake!
And stop.
Now put your hand on your heart.
Your big,
Big heart.
Every single person in your family has a big heart too.
Look around the circle at these people you love and say,
I love you the most to every single person there.
Now close your eyes for a minute and picture the people in your family.
And imagine a string going from your heart to all of their hearts.
And all of their hearts to each other's hearts and back to yours.
Can you see how you are all connected?
Now open your eyes and take a minute to thank everyone for something they did today.
It can be for anything at all.
What did they do today to fill your happiness tank?
When you are all done,
Take your hands and put your palms against someone else's hands.
And repeat after me,
I love you when we're together.
Now turn your palms backwards and when we are apart,
Put your hands on your heart and say,
You live right here inside my heart.
Keep your hands on your heart and say,
You live inside my heart.
Reach your palms back to theirs and say,
I'll never be alone.
Now turn your palms backwards,
No matter where I am.
Now give everyone a big hug.
When I look at you,
I'm home.
Let's try it all together.
Put your palms out.
I love you when we're together and when we are apart,
You live right here inside my heart.
You live inside my heart.
I'll never be alone.
No matter where I am,
When I look at you,
I'm home.
Now can you stretch your arms out to your side?
And then bring your whole family in for a great big hug.
We are all part of our own families and together we're part of a much bigger family.
A family of big hearts.
A family that stretches outside of our houses and outside of our cities and our country and over oceans and trees and lakes and jungles.
Thank you for being in our Big Yellow Boot family.
We love you and your family so much.