🤩 M I L L I O N A I R E S 🤩 In the midst of all the packing and moving last week, the boys finished their final school year at Ponderosa Elementary last Thursday. 🥹 One goal that both boys had this year was to become Millionaire Readers, which are kids who have read 1 million words. After reading each book, they take a quiz to prove they read and understood the book. Our kids aren’t voracious readers, so we were really glad that the boys set this goal for themselves. Thankfully, they got really into Chris Colfer’s “Land or Stories” and “Tale of Magic” book series a few months ago. One month before the end of the school year, they each had a little more than 100k words to go. Since we knew that they would be leaving their school and the progress wouldn’t transfer, we encouraged them even more to try to hit 1 million before the school year ended. Four days before the last day of school they both finished their books, took the quizzes, and surpassed 1 million words! We were both so proud of them. They told us that during the school announcements the Principal said, “Our first brothers to become Millionaire Readers on the same day!” They had their names announced in the school post and they got these nifty t-shirts. ~~~~~~ Funny related story from @albie81 : “Back in March, I was worried about financial stuff with stocks plummeting and interests rates climbing while trying to buy/sell a house. During our nighttime prayers with the boys, Jalen prayed, “I pray that I can be a millionaire!” I went into teaching mode and said, ”God can bless us with money if He wants, but He can also bless us without tons of money too. Either way He will bless us.” I realized what I was saying as it came out of my mouth. How it applied to my worries, and I thought, wow God is teaching me here. The next night, Jalen was reading his book. He made some comment about how many words are in the book. That’s when I had a realization. I went up to him and I said, “Jalen. Last night when you prayed to be a millionaire, did you mean…a millionaire reader?” He nodded. Lol, his prayer had nothing to do with money. God, still used it as a teaching moment for me though!” https://www.instagram.com/p/CeSgZXWLLck5Efm2YyHNzfPWwmbjltFh9wx-GQ0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=