Keep track of my charitable giving and volunteer hours

to journal it at the time, but:

$20 to the Fisher house at WPAFB in April, when my husband stayed there a few days.

$75 to the Dayton Ronald McDonald House in March because they ROCK and do amazing things for families in crisis.

I meant to be doing more, and yet I see it’s been two months since I adopted this goal and I’ve done nothing. Well, I did do one thing. I joined the Elephant Sanctuary last weekend. I have been meaning to for ages, because I just love the mission to give aging and abused circus and zoo elephants a TRUE sanctuary in their retirement. The sanctuary is 2700 acres of pure, undisturbed utopia for these peaceful creatures, and a year’s membership is so reasonable. They also have a gift shop with too cute elephant extras, and there’s also a link to Amazon that, if you use it, will give 5% of your purchase price at Amazon back to the elephant sanctuary. Now that’s giving without even trying!

to feel like a good person or anything, but I would like to get up to speed with donating 10% of our income every year to my favorite non-profits (I have so many!). I don’t feel like we’re anywhere near that percentage right now, although we’re pretty financially restricted while we’re still on one income. So, I’d like to track our financial contributions to charity this year.