Carsons thoughts

Carson has started mowing lawns for our neighbors. He started out with one, and it is growing. They think that he is too cheap not to use ($20), and he thinks that he is rolling in the dough!!! He bought a weed eater from my dad (which he told me today was actually the best deal he has ever gotten. Um, ya think! Papa spoils him! $20 for the weed eater which he had to go out and buy another one to replace his!) He does a great job. I walked around with him the first time, checked up on it the second, and have not done anything since. And he keeps having neighbors ask. So we have the boys pay 10% tithing, 40% mission savings, and 50% for them to spend as they wish. As Cars was putting his money in his savings for the last couple of weeks, he tells me that he is going to have WAY more money than he needs. He is going to have SOOO much extra. I told him lets figure it out. I asked him how long he plans to deliver papers, mow lawns, and then get a decent job with a regular paycheck. We do all the math on the numbers, and he sees that he will be way short what he will need for a mission. He got all bummed out, and switched from, I'm going to have sooo much money to holy crap, I need to find a way to make more money. Then you see the light bulb go off. His face lights up, and he says, "But everything I save for that you approve of, you will pay half. And you approve of a mission! There's my money! Now I have enough!!! Oh yeah!" I just laughed. He is so smart. I love to see them figure things out. It was the first time he even thought about that mom and dad might pay some of it. He was so excited then. I loved to see him so happy about something so simple and something so righteous! I love that the boys NEVER complain when they pay into their funds. Sometimes they might say, "that would be nice to have that money", but never trying to get out of paying to it, or to tithing. I also LOVE that his first thought was not that mom and dad will just pay for it, but Crap, I have to make more money. Love that they are such hard workers! I hope they are always as hard of workers as they are now. All my neighbors tell me all the time how they love how helpful they are. They offer to take out their trash when inside, and walk their dog, and help their babies, and pick weeds, and on and on and on. Love my boys!!!