Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Be still my heart

After carefully considering options, as one of our holiday charities we chose to fund a project through Donors Choose. We discussed it with the boys and decided to help a low poverty school in our area buy a ton of science books.

As we were on the website, Jon and I asked the boys how much they wanted to individually contribute to the project. They emptied their entire wallets while saying, "Now they will get a LOT of books!"

Most days 5 year olds are (developmentally appropriate) selfish jerks but man, that one made me bust out the kleenex.

6 comments:

Marcia (123 blog) said...

I love that you do this and that you're instilling giving in your boys at such a young age :)

Have you decided on a word for 2012 yet?

Anandi said...

YAY!

Maria said...

Love!

Tanika Davis said...

That brings tears to MY eyes. Love it!

Brandy said...

FUCK i love your kids. *tear*

Whitney {RookieMoms.com} said...

Awesome! My husband gave me $ to spend on Donors Choose for xmas. Then sadly, no teachers in our district had projects listed, however I was able to donate to a charter school started by some acquaintances. Awesome that your boys "got it." We gave these soccer balls to other children as a gift to our children. http://www.oneworldfutbol.com/