We're really excited about this recycling thing. We've got about $50 hidden up in the cupboard, one garbage bag of bottles by the backdoor that my sister gave to Noah as a Christmas gift, 6 cases of empty pop cans that we found on the side of the road when we were driving one day (all organized nicely but abandoned... weird), and 5 boxes full of random... I mean well sorted (by Adam and Noah without any supervision) cans, water bottles, beer bottles and other recyclable items. The web site is still not up.. we're not sure what to do .. it's ready, but how and who and ... that sort of thing. Noah and Adam are still collecting. So are we. Sometimes Joel and I stay up late at night and just talk.. what if we could collect 100,000 bottles in one year? What if this idea went across Canada? What if our friends in the states said, "hey... great idea. I'd like to donate my bottles. What do I do??" ... what would we do? Ideas are fun, especially when they aren't forced - like this one. It just happened and continues to happen.
We've been talking about different things to do with the money that comes in. So with everything we've collected so far, you'd think Adam and Noah would love to just buy lego guys and firetrucks and remote control cars with it (monster truck remote control cars) but they are totally ok with giving the money away. Well, to be honest, they don't really know what money - or numbers - are. Adam, when talking about his shoe size, called it "so big it's 5 dollars" .. . ah... something tells me he's not totally getting the money thing. However, they understand what it means to help people, and they really do want to help. If you ask them why they recycle, they'll tell you it's for people who don't have food or homes. Stuff like that. So we got to thinking - what should our first project be. Well, we decided to get personal with it. When Adam was born, he was only 26 weeks old and had to spend 110 days in 3 different hospitals. Vancouver Children's was a place that Adam spent some critical time in. So we were thinking - what if we could give back through Noah's Art of Recycling? So we set a goal to give $500 in 2011 to their Special Care Nursery (this special care nursery is specifically for premature and problematic infants). So that's where we're at with all this recycling biz. Got some bottles?
