Grace's Summer Mission: BoxTops for Education

As you all already know I am so super proud of all my kids, but especially my daughter Grace right now. When the school year ended we had to come up with a summer plan. Not so much as to fill our days, but more so to see what kinds of activities and goals we wanted to achieve before the end of August. We wrote down a few things...here is Grace's Summer To Do List!

In case you're having trouble making out her list she made in school, here is goes:

1. Go to the pool (ok, doable)
2. Read 1 or 2 books (better be more than that)
3. Maybe get a tan (um, sunscreen please)
4. Go on snap chat and facebook (she has no clue what those are)
5. Have a sleepover (too young)
6. Get a many/pedy (manicure/pedicure...we'll see)
7. and say hi to your teacher (of course!)

She definitely is funny and certainly knows what she wants, but one of the things we came up together (other than get a tan) was simple - Box Tops for Education! Its something that most, if not all schools participate in and its super easy. Collect as many (or as little) Box Tops from participating company's products as you can. Each Box Top equals $.10 for your school. Every little bit counts! Cut them out and give them to your school. Its FREE money for your school for all kinds of fun stuff - check out their website!!

Grace set a goal of collecting 1,000 Box Tops. Although a seemingly out of reach number...we thought, "why not?". Together, we sent out an email to all of our family & friends asking that they keep an eye out for any Box Top products that they might already have in their kitchen and just cut them out and send them to us. Along the way Grace gets to receive mail from her friends & family throughout the summer and keeping her accountable for a goal she set out to achieve.

We are in our last week of summer and she has collected over 300 Box Tops. This is an ongoing fundraiser for her school so we wont stop there, but now we have our family & friends keeping an eye out for products they may have passed over previously. Hunt around your fridge and pantry - you may have FREE money lying around and not even know it! Thank you to all of those who participated and made a mama very proud.

Happy Hunting!