Christmas Cheer!

This is an update for all of you wondering whatever happened to that $100 bill that Aidan found last week. The money went unclaimed for a week and the store called us to come and get it. I had previously spoken to the manager about donating the money to charity and he mentioned that they are sponsering a family for the Winnipeg Christmas Cheer Board and if we wanted we could join in with them on that. I asked him if there was any way that I could have my son be part of buying gifts with the money so that he could see where the money was going, better to understand by doing, and he agreed, and that is why the store called us to come and pick up the money. I figured that this was a great life lesson to be learned and I really wanted him to understand all of this.
I explained to Aidan, that last week we didn't have the money and we were happy and this week we didn't have the money and we were happy, so we didn't really need the money and it would be nice to do something nice for someone else. We talked about what Christmas really means and we decided that when your heart feels good, that is what Christmas is about. We talked about how Santa comes to everyone on Christmas Eve, but how he only fills stockings and that parents put presents under the tree. Some parents don't have enough money to put presents under the tree and he would feel pretty bad if he woke up Christmas morning with no presents under the tree to open. We have the opportunity to help someone have a few presents under the tree.

Here is Aidan with the $100 bill.

These are the gifts we bought for the family. The orange package is something from "Fruits and Passions", inside is shampoo, lotion, bubble bath and perfume, for the mom. The monopoly game is for the family. The family consists of a single mom with 4 children, there are 2 boys age 11, a boy age 13 and a girl age 15.

On the way home, after dropping off our gifts at the store, Aidan said, "When can we do the Cheer Board again, Mommy?" I asked him why he wanted to do it again, he said "it made my heart feel good!"

Lesson learned!