Texas Children's Hospital and the S.P.C.A

This weekend Brenna got a lesson in giving.  Our neighborhood just opened a new section that included several beautiful new model homes.  So, there was a Grand Opening and they invited everyone to come out for free cupcakes, pocket pies, balloons, face-painting, ice cream and pink lemonade.  They were also taking book donations for the Texas Children's Hospital.

So, I sat Brenna down and tried the explain the importance of giving and what a donation was.  We talked about how a hospital was kinda like the doctors office except sometimes you have to spend the night.  I explained that there was a special hospital just for kids and sometimes those kids have to stay a long time.  When I suggested that we give-away some of our books to the children at the hospital, she was completely on board by saying "Not the red books, because I really like those, but they could have the blue ones because we don't read those anymore."  And so the negotiations began!  In the end, while we did leave behind a few books that I thought should have gone (Brenna insisted the they were must-haves) she parted with about 20 books.  She received some very nice compliments as she dropped her books in the donation buckets at each of the new homes that we visited.

But, our lesson wasn't over.  Later that afternoon, Brenna joined some of her friends for a volunteer fundraiser!  Our friend Anna recruited her brothers, cousin, and Brenna to run a lemonade stand and all the profits went to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.  Thanks to the humor and generosity of our neighbors the kids raised $22.25 for the S.P.C.A.!

Business got slow, so the kids took a joy ride

Counting out the profits!