Wednesday, June 16, 2010

A Goat!

Alanna is attending Vacation Bible School this week. Every year they raise money or collect donations for something. In the past it's been school supplies or food for the food shelf. This year, they're collection spare change to raise money to purchase livestock for a village in Africa.

Each day they are going to put their money towards a different animal. Tuesday was chicks, Wednesday - ducks, Thursday - pigs, and Friday - goats. The goal is for the kids to be able to raise enough to buy at least one of each animal as a group by the end of the week.

Alanna came home Monday and immediately asked if there were any chores around the house she could do in order to raise more money to donate. It's been raining, so I didn't have any outdoor chores, but gave her a list of some things inside she could do and promised we'd evaluate at the end of the day to determine how much the extra chores were worth. By the end of the day she had swept, done dishes, cleaned the bathroom, organized her toys and even separated out toys she no longer played with to give away.

We looked through the toys and determined that the Zhu Zhu pets could probably be sold. She immediately declared she'd like to sell them as soon as possible so she could also use that money to donate.

Mommy's awfully proud. Alanna was able to earn enough money through sale of her Zhu Zhu's and her extra chores to buy a goat all by herself!

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