Can’t believe it’s almost the end of the summer

This is Braeden’s last summer before going to school ALL DAY this year.  We made a list of things at the beginning of the summer we wanted to do and we found it the other day and we did almost everything on the list.  Gotta go for a trolley ride at the outlets still, will try to get to that in the next few weeks.

Anyway, one of the things we had that we wanted (needed) to do was have a garage sale.  Braeden wanted to have a lemonade stand, he has wanted to do this a few years now.  We got all the stuff ready and I talked to him about what he wanted to do with his money, he wasn’t sure.  I suggested maybe we donate it somewhere.  He liked the idea, we just couldn’t decide who to give it too. 

Then he remembered Sister Carol who had came to talk to them at VBS about her program for women and children trying to get back on their feet.  During VBS, all the kids brought in school supplies to donate.  Braeden decided he would give the money to her.  He raised about $11.00 (I think most of it was sold to family) and then afterwards we just threw any extra change we had into the container.  We ended up having $18.00 by the time school supplies went on sale. 

With the stuff on sale we got more bang for our buck and in the end we were able to donate quite a bit of supplies.  We went down to deliver them yesterday.

We have decided to make this a tradition, although we may change who we donate to every year.

I forgot to get a pic of his lemonade stand, but here are some pics as we headed off to deliver them yesterday.