Pay Tithing

Carter and Carson went to scout camp this year. While they were gone, we had to take care of their papers routes. Caden was willing to do half, so that left Cael and Colby and I to do the other half. Cael was a little paper delivering rock star. He ran the entire two routes (Colby did well too, he just couldn't keep up, but he sure tried with very minimal whining). I just walked on the sidewalk and he would run up behind me, and I would hold out a paper and he would grab it from me and run up to the door. When someone was outside, he would run it up to them and politely hand it to them and talk to them and he was so super cute. He had a total permagrin on the entire time. It made me happy seeing how much he loved it. For the last 4 years, almost weekly, he has ridden in the car watching his brothers do their route every week. I had no idea how great he would be (he now gets 40 papers) When he was done and I paid him, he held the money in the air and said, "YES!!! I have waited all my life to get to pay tithing!!!" He was so happy. I don't know if he was happy to pay tithing because that meant that he made money, or if he was happy to have made money so he could pay tithing. Either way, I don't care. I just love that he knew that was what we do. As Chet would say, "That's what Parkers do" (to anything that the boys question why. I'm sure we'll hear all about that one later, but I love the saying and use it regularly now.) No complaining or asking questions on this one! He knew exactly what to do... he had waited his WHOLE life for it!!