Works For Me: Our Compassion Notebook

So, we have three more Compassion kids now.  In addition to our boy Dissan, we've also added Esther, Abraham and Joseph--all from Uganda. 

We want to do this well.  We want our communication with our kids to be consistent.  And someday, when I meet them (and I will!  One of these days--I so want to go back!), I want to have a big stack of their letters to show them how much they meant to our family.

So this week, I got organized.  I found an old three-ring binder laying around, and I hole-punched our information on each kid.  I made dividers--one section for each child, so we can keep the letters from them separate.  I had some blank address labels left over from Christmas cards, so I made several with the address for sending in sponsor letters.  I even filled the back of the binder with blank notebook paper, making it even easier to write regularly.

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