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Marble Jar

 I started the marble jar several years ago. Each kid has a little jar and once the jar is filled, they get a prize out of the prize box or $4 in cash to save. The prizes are things that cost  $4 or less. DVD's, matchbox cars, books, games, silly puddy, trucks, etc. For the boys they love to pick a $1 matchbox car. Jayden likes to get books or just save her cash. They do jobs and chores to earn the marbles. Some jobs are easy and others hard. Sometimes really good behavior gets a marble. Doing or eating something they don’t like earns marbles. Some days go by that we don’t think about the jars much and other days they work like crazy to fill the marble jar so they can get a prize. Cleaning horse stalls is not a fun  job to anyone, so that gets Jake a full marble jar. Luke has a smaller jar, since he is younger. It is fun to see them so excited to fill the jars and get to pick out a prize. The other day we were riding horses. The boys would rather play in the dirt than ride horses. We have a hard time getting them excited to ride. If I ask them if the would like to ride the answer is always no. So I started asking who wants to ride first. The usually say not me. I kept asking who was going to be first and had no takers. Finally I said, the first one to ride gets a marble. They both jumped to their feet and ran to me. Jake was first. Luke began to cry, saying he wanted a marble. Inside I was laughing. How those marbles could get them on a horse and how big a deal it was to them to get that marble. I love it.

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