Pay It Forward

Our elementary school had a writing contest for the 3rd and 4th grade. The students were given the prompt "If you were given a thousand dollars, what would you do with it?" Their instruction was that it had to be used for someone else. Savannah's paper was one of the 7 finalists. The resounding theme with the kids was to use it for animals, older people and sick kids. With corporate sponsorship, they were able to make this a reality. The students are buying an assist dog for a handicapped person, they are sending gifts and decorations for the Ronald McDonald house in Ft. Worth and yesterday a group of kids went to local nursing homes and retirement centers and sang, played hand chimes and decorated the rooms with Christmas cards and pictures. They also presented the local nursing home with a new popcorn machine and TV and stand on wheels to take from room to room. The director of the nursing home cried as she accepted the donation offer! Savannah is in the chime choir. I went to watch her perform at all of the places and unknown to me, I was a chaperon!!! So I had a group of 10 girls to keep up with at the performances and Ci-Ci's Pizza...thank goodness my mother-in-law showed up to watch Savannah. I needed her to corral kids with me because I was there to take pictures for the lady in charge!!!! This was entire day and then I had a cookie exchange last night that I had to take TEN dozen cookies to....