Hello Friend,

For October, our local public library offered a deal, where your child had a paper and they needed to read 15 minutes a day. Then, they could cross out a pumpkin. After all the pumpkins are colored in or crossed out, you bring it back for rewards.

This month's rewards were quite amazing! This is what each of my four children received...

• Pizza sticks and sauce at a local pizza place (valued at $9.99 each)
• A small chocolate shake at a fast food place (valued at $2.49 each)
• a free book (valued at average $5.99 retail)
• choice of pumpkin stickers or "wooden stick scratches the black paper" (I don't know what those are called.) activity

$18.47 x 4 kids = $73.88!

I know sometimes it's easier to stay out of the public library because I don't want my children to see some of the questionable material on display, but this program was such a blessing to us with my husband's job loss and us living on such a tight budget right now.

We made a night of it and my husband, Mike, and I shared a pizza sticks order and each had our own chocolate shake, so our outing cost under $17 with tax. What a blessing! Yay for library reading programs!

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