money man

This week Jacob found $3.50.  Not bad for just going along his everyday business and finding that extra change!

#1 - He came in on Monday afternoon and was holding $2.  He said he had found it outside in our backyard, and since we share the yard with another family on the other side of the duplex, I told him it was probably the mom's money.  I said we needed to go and ask them about the money - which he was hesitant to do.  They weren't home, so I put the money in my pocket for later on.  That evening we were having FHE and the lesson was on Courage - Madeleine was telling a story about a child who had found something that did not belong to them, and had the courage to be honest and ask to find the owner.  Right at the end of the story, our neighbors pulled up - so Jacob and I went out to talk to them.  He asked if the money belonged to them - and they told him no, and that he could keep it.  He got the biggest smile on his face!  I told him not every story will turn out like this when we use our courage to be honest - but he was definitely happy that this experience turned in his favor!

#2 - Jacob was walking to the car after school one day, and found $1 in the parking lot.  At this point, he was thinking that life was really being quite nice to him this week!

#3 - Tonight, after Jacob's baseball game we were leaving the ball park and Jacob was climbing on the bleachers, when he called to me, "Mom, I just found 50 cents!"  Sure enough - two quarters exactly where he was putting his hand down to get his balance to climb down.

When I told him he was so lucky with all the money he had found this week - he replied, "JUST CALL ME MONEY MAN!" 

He is trying to save money for an Air Soft gun - which is THE thing to have as a neighborhood boy right now.  I'm trying to talk him into forgoing the gun, and just putting his money into our trip to Florida and Disney World at Thanksgiving...but I think that is so far away and the Air Soft gun sounds a lot more appealing right now!

Either way - Jacob has not only been lucky to find money, but he's decided to take seriously the job list that we have hanging up to earn extra money.  He actually has asked a few times what he can do to earn more money.  I could get used to that behavior around here!