Three Cups

A couple of weeks ago I won a book giveaway at the blog of Kingdom First Mom, which is an awesome blog and I highly recommend you check her out!

The book is called Three Cups and I really want to recommend it to you. It is a story about a child who is given three cups for his fifth birthday. His parents explain that they feel it is time for him to receive an allowance, but every time he gets an allowance, some will go into a cup for savings, a cup for spending, and a cup for giving. It explains how the older he gets he is able to keep putting money into each of these cups. Eventually he opens a small bank account with his savings, he saves enough money in his "spending" cup to buy a baseball glove he wants, and eventually with his giving cup he saves enough money to buy eight cans of food for the needy, and helps deliver those cans to those in need.

I loved this book because it's a children's book so it was short, but it's the exact message I want to give to our kids. I feel like my parents always instilled this in us (unfortunately I went a little overboard on the "spending" part during part of my adult life!!) and it's something I really want to talk about with our kids.

So if you see this book around, please know that I highly recommend it for those with young children!

I Win!

I definitely won a radio contest today. So random.

I was just getting in my car after leaving Harris Teeter, flipping stations, just in time to hear the DJ say, "Who sings this song?" The song played, and then he rattled off the station's phone number and said he was taking the eighth caller. What the heck. I called. He answered, "You're caller #5!" I quickly hung up and pressed redial. This time when he answered, he said, "Who sings that song?" I said, "Evan and Jaron!!!" He yelled, "You won!!! How in the heck did you remember that band?" I said, "I had a friend who loved them and the name just always stuck with me!" He said, "Well, you'll have to take her to the concert with you!" (At this point I had no clue what I had won, and I wasn't about to tell a radio DJ that the friend I was talking about lives in Augusta and is not going to drive to NC just to go to a concert with me...)

Turns out I won tickets to see the Goo Goo Dolls and Switchfoot in Raleigh. The Goo Goo Dolls are my least favorite, most annoying band ever. I think we should just go to see Switchfoot and then leave.

But still, so cool that I won! Stephen can go pick up the tickets because it's only a few minutes from the base!