Good July to all. I hope everyone has a great 4th (one of my favorite holidays)! An inpriring holiday for sure.

As we have discussed before, getting kids involved with charitable work is one of my big things. I’m always looking for new (and easy) ways to get mine busy doing for others. For some reason, my schemes are always elaborate. But a friend just hit me with a great thought.

Hey Brett, you don’t need an organization or special day to take your kids to the park with a garbage bag and pick up trash…

Duhh.

OK, thought I’d pass this along to you all. She was right, no one needs to help me plan a 15 minute park, church, school, library or community center pick-up. Just as long as the kids don’t pick up something too gross:) I guess we can always just leave it. So next time we go to the park, I will give it a try. We will throw in a garbage bag, pick up a few things and start playing. Sounds easy to me.

Have a great month. More CloseKids stuff next time!

My very best,

Brett A Johnston