We’ve been focusing on service this summer.
Here’s what we have done:
- The trip to the assisted living facility for Father’s Day to deliver center pieces.
- Yard work!- Sammie learned how to mow the lawn and she even in this heat she did half of the back yard the other day! Tyler was her assistant stick picker upper.
- The kids are doing so much better with their chores and helping each other with them.
We are planning on doing:
- We are having a yard sale and donating part of the proceeds to charity- we are in the process now of sorting through everything!
- The kids want to do a family food drive to donate food items to the food pantry near us. Summer is especially difficult for families who rely on the free/discounted breakfast and lunch at school to feed their children during the day.
The kids will each earn money to buy food from the store to bring to the pantry and we will get a few extra things over the next few weeks to give as well.
- We are going to walk around the neighborhood and pick up trash and also walk to Dairy Queen for a treat and pick up trash on the way. (I keep putting this one off because of the weather… it probably will be hot anytime we do it, but we are not doing it this week for sure!)
- I also hope we can go to the assisted living home again to have Sammie play the piano for them and visit or play games, but if that doesn’t happen this summer we will do it in the fall.
The goal here is that as we work together on a project and that the kids learn how important it is to see the needs of others.
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