I have the most beautiful son in the world

I love my kid so much! I've recently been talking to him (just turned 3) about how some people don't have the things we have. They don't have food in the kitchen whenever they want it, they don't have a car, they don't have a house, maybe they don't even have parents. The first time I told him this his eyes about bugged out of his head. You could see his little mind trying to assimilate this information. Then he said "no..." with a half-smile. He thought I was wrong or lying! I wish it were so...

So we brainstormed about things that we could do to help these people. I told him how Mommy gives money to the little orphans in Africa that have no one. And I told him there are people right here in our city that need help, too. I told him about the little kids that have mean daddies (a topic near and dear to my heart, as I was one of them). They had to leave their homes and have nothing nice, and probably don't get to go trick-or-treating. So he decided (with some help from me, of course) that he would choose just a little bit of his Halloween candy and give the rest to the kids with mean daddies. :) When anyone would ask him about what he was going to be for Halloween or if he was going trick-or-treating, he would get all excited and say "Yeah! And I'm going to go to houses and yell 'Trick-or treat' as loud as I can, and I'm gonna get candy, and I'm gonna give it to the kids without houses!"

Last night we divied it up and took it to the domestic abuse shelter in our city and he got to hand the candy to the administrators. I almost teared up. That's going to be a new tradition in our house now.