It's a Beautiful Life: Volunteer!!

Friday, July 11, 2014

Volunteer!!

I love now that we are home schooling we have the option to teach our kids what we want and deem important. We can spend individual time with them everyday instead of having to plan a date night with each child though we probably still will because it's fun. Also we can do and go and learn together as a family.

Something we want to incorporate into our lives is volunteer work, helping others because it's the right thing to do not because we are getting paid. Once a month we will participate in some kind of volunteer work. We fully intend to volunteer on our adventure through the states, we already have a berry farm and possibly an alpaca farm to work on and I am sure there will be many other opportunities that will arise that we cant imagine at this point.

The start to this was today we talked about where we can volunteer we came up with the animal shelter, food bank and the library. We are still working on the list and would love suggestions that a 6 and 9 year old can participate in.

Today we started at the Animal shelter the boys were most excited about this idea of course being the animal lovers that they are. We spent an hour filling toys with peanut butter and dog food for them to get later at night. There was a little housekeeping to do folding laundry and dishes. It is all very simple but something they can do and can feel they had a part in helping the animals. I am sure the boys will beg to go to the animal shelter more. They were rewarded well by getting special play time with two very cute kittens that are up for adoption.