Awesome!

One thing we do is donate a percentage of our earnings to adoption related organizations. A couple times a year (our son’s forever family month, adoption awareness month) we increase the amount we donate. Rather than just give cash we use the money to purchase clothes, food or other “in need” items for birth mothers and birth families as requested by a couple agencies we work with.

Our playgroup is collecting items for older kids and going to take them to the a local adoption agency (one that one of our members has used and is using again) for their Christmas party next week.

My son’s preschool class is having a food drive for the local food bank next week.

Those are a few things we’re doing.

I don’t have time to email at the moment, but I posted about our charity efforts earlier on my blog http://www.jenspends.com/charity-on-a-budget/

My 2-year-old son is fascinated by baby dolls, so he enjoyed helping me pick out the perfect one for the 2-year-old girl we will be giving a gift to through our church. I will also let him help wrap the gift and bring it up to the Christmas tree this weekend.