The Christmas Jar 2011

Last year at SSES, we attended a talk given by an author of the book, The Christmas Jar. The premises of the book is to collect loose change throughout the year and give it to someone or something in need. The story really resonated with us, and so we have brought that tradition home with us and made it our own. We have found that we collect enough change to donate 2x's per year....so we have a Christmas Jar....and an Easter Jar.

We spend some time discussing some worthy recipients for the Christmas Jar 2011(and yes, we are about a month behind on the donation...but better late than never!)and the boys finally settled on The Wounded Warrior Project. When the money in the jar was all counted, it totaled $32.26 and off the donation went. Although not a huge amount of money, we do hope it will make a difference to some brave soldier and perhaps his/her family somewhere.