(CLICK ON PICTURE TO ENLARGE) When I posted this a few weeks ago, I received 6 emails and 2 comments asking how we worked Tanner's allowance. Sorry it's taken me so long to post it.
For Tanner's allowance we have an allowance chart. I put a mark in the box each time a job is completed and at the end of the week he gets his money for each job that was done. He has three jars; spending $$, tithing $$, and mission fund. He puts 10% of his earnings into tithing, another 10% into his mission fund and the rest is spending money.
We also have "chore stars" with each of the kids chores. The stars are jobs that they do everyday. Since Logan can't read, his stars have pictures of his chores on them. When they have completed each chore, they turn the stick over, in their jar, to the "done" side. (This all sounds more complex than it really is)
Dad got (another) big package in the mail so we pulled out the paint and the cardboard men and made ourselves a puppet theatre. Tanner decorated his like Iron Man and Logan made Dad (hence the blue scrubs and black hair). Logan kept repeating, "I Daddy, I go school. I Daddy, I go school..." They put on plays all afternoon--it was fun to see how creative they got!
It is 8:46 am right now, the exact time, seven years ago, that the first plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center. I was in the car on my way to work when the radio DJ had told us that the first tower had been hit. I was a dental assistant in 
