Somebody's mom: Pay it Forward day.....

Yesterday was pay it forward day so I decided the best thing to do would be to teach this theory to my son.
We decided we would adopt a snow leopard through the WWF canada.
This would be him paying it forward to the snow leopard. First thing we did was return our empties.Usually I let him buy a puppet for his collection with this money but today was different he was learning to help others instead of buying yet another material object ( although he gets a free snow leopard stuffie with his certificate so that was probably the drive really). It took a while to make him understand we dont actually get the animal in the mail that it stays where it is. On with our adventure. We gathered up some beaded necklaces I made when I was like 12, his " indiana jones" purse and his walking stick and off we went to get some donations.

First stop the local take out shack. The sweetest lady ever! He does his pitch to her but dosnt really make sense cause he is also ordering a tiger tiger ice cream at the same time. she donates 5 buck and a free ice cream cone and in turn has a great necklace so when people ask where she purchased such a fine piece she will tell the pay it forward story. Next we hit up Aunties house but by then it was all about the ice cream. He hands me the merchandise and says "here mom you tell her". We carried on our way to the Heriot Bay Inn where of course everyone is already aware of how cute my kid is. After a couple more donations and a lot of cute interactions he is well on his way. We also learned about donations and how a little or alot is just fine, of course then he started telling people they didnt have to pay and totaly confused them!

It was all in all a very successful day for many reasons...