every year for the past four years, our family has been saving extra change in a jar in our kitchen labeled "christmas jar". a few years back, i read the book "christmas jars" and we decided to start one of our own. each year we have set a goal to fill one more than the previous year. in 2009, we filled four jars! in the past we have taken the jars into the city and handed them out to homeless or needy people.
we counted the money and each jar holds approximately $90-$100! on christmas day we went into the city and handed out one jar. we still had three remaining jars (they are HEAVY, so we couldn't take four in at once!) scott sugggested we give them to help out in haiti. so last week, the girls and i headed over the red cross offices. the ladies there couldn't believe we were dropping off $300 in spare change! they took the girls picture with the jars for our local paper. i was so proud of the girls and they felt so good about what they did!
five jars may be a stretch this year, but we are going to try!
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So cute! You guys always do such a great job teaching the girls about giving, being generous and helping those less fortunate. Such a great tradition for them to all carry on too :)
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