warm fuzzies

so it's late and this might sound like i am rambling. so forgive me if it comes across that way. 

lately i have really been thinking about what I want to teach my kids and what I want to be important to them. After talking to a friend of mine and hearing an idea that she had got from conference i decided to do the same thing at our house. The original idea came from President Monson's talk. 

(click here to read it!)

The talk was entitled, "What have I done for some one today?"

I love that idea. I really enjoy doing service for other people and I really want my kids to enjoy it as well.     There is such happiness in knowing that you have done something to make some one else's day a little brighter, easier, or just to let them know you are thinking of them. It does not always have to be a huge act of kindness for it to be important. So this is my plan. We are know going to have this on top of our entertainment center. 

I bought the jar, bought the little pom pom things and this will be our goal. Every time some one in our house does some form of service for anyone else (without being prompted), we will put a fuzzy in the jar. This applies to everyone, even Garran and myself. However the kids can not add fuzzies, only the parents. Once our jar is full, we will do something really special as a family. What that is has yet to be decided. But it will be something big. Bigger than just having a special dessert or ordering pizza. We will do something really fun and special as a family to show our children how much we appreciate their kindness towards others. I decided to do a post about this to kind of  hold myself responsible as well. I want to try and work on being nicer this year also. ;0) Periodically i will post how we are doing as a family and then hopefully, what we have done as our big surprise. I have an idea, but we will just have to see if we can fill our jar in time!!! Wish us luck!