Tonight I helped Haley and Hayden make Christmas banks. This brought back such great memories from when I was little. Every year my mom would help us make banks out of milk cartons (that was always the best, we never got chocolate milk already mixed up otherwise, we had to use the dry Nestle powder and white milk and it just isn't the same!) We would save money all of December and get extra money for being good, helping out or whatever, then right before Christmas we would take our banks to the local 5 and Dime Store and buy Christmas presents for the family. This is the 3rd year we have done this with Haley and Hayden's first year. It has been so much fun taking Haley to the dollar store and telling her "pick whatever you want for each person" she actually does pretty good and puts a lot of thought into each person's gift. It is just exciting for me to watch them give and know there is more to life than always getting and sometimes you give and expect nothing in return.