A good heart

We have recently tried out giving the kids an allowance, as long as they did the list of things required of them during the week. Things like tidy rooms whatever other job I assigned them, homework, piano practice, good behavior at school... We went with the age of the child for the amount they could earn at the end of the week. Of course of they had a bad attitude or didn't do the required jobs for they day they would get a check and every check took away $1.00.

It's been going pretty good.

Meanwhile Andrew's parents are serving their mission in Brownsville Texas, which is basically Mexico. We asked them if there was a family that we could help out this Christmas. They found a Grandma and her daughter who has twin girls and a little boy. We talked to the kids about using some of the money we would spend on them to get things for this little family. They all agreed, and were ready to each buy something with the money that they have been earning also.

We went to Target with our list and they all had their money. Everyone picked out something, then Gunner found a big stuffed spiderman( the little boy loves spiderman) he didn't know much it would cost but he had $22.00. He was pretty sure it would cover .

We got to the register and everyone bought their stuff. They were all so generous, Gunner got to the register and they man scanned the spiderman and it rang up $20.00... He shrugged his shoulders and said, "well I still have $2.00 left" He has a good heart.

It was so fun to watch them choose things for someone else, and how happy they were to do it.