Kitty Rewards

As most of you know Julia has been working toward earning a pet cat by earning tokens for her good behavior (she has been working on this for an entire year now!). Well, in recent days or weeks we have decided to include Karley in this too. In part because it is taking Julia FOREVER to earn her tokens and also because Karley was beginning to think that she would some day earn tokens towards her own cat and I decided that I would rather they share one cat than each have their own. So, for the last week or so both girls are earning tokens toward the same goal. We have a jar in a conspicuous area and as I give each girl a token they happily deposit it in the communal jar. They are excited watching the jar begin to fill. Julia has not counted her tokens she earned prior to the jar (she has them in her coin purse), but I know that she has earned enough for the next item on the list, and at the pace these two are going, they will probably have the following item on the list too before long. My secret hope is that they can earn this cat during the summer sometime so that the novelty of it will wear off a bit as we begin the next school year. Perhaps I'm just dreaming and the new token jar novelty will wear off soon and it will take another whole year.....