kids raise money for American Cancer Society

http://treniff.gaia.com — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:12:36 GMT

I'm a team captain for our local Relay For Life. This year's relay went well overall. However, I ended up with a bad case of acute bronchitis which took two antibiotics to get rid of. My own team didn't do so well at the relay. One team mate had gone home because her son was sick and I had lost my voice completely by 2:30 in the morning (was in the ER by Sunday night).

They always hold the deadline date for turning in your money open for about a month after the relay. I'm still on meds for the bronchitis but feeling a lot better.

I was thinking what I could I do to make up for the lack of funds from our team at the relay this year? Sunday, I took some gift baskets to our local flea market and we sold raffle tickets to bring in some extra funds at the last minute. I had sold by myself the first hour and a half while my kids went shopping with the spending money I gave them.

When they came back, my 12 year old insisted that she take over while I go look at a booth that had scrap booking supplies. She gave me directions to the booth. While I was gone she coached my 5 year old in how to sell raffle tickets. When I came back 20 minutes later she had sold $90 worth of tickets in 20 minutes! A lot more than I had sold in an hour and a half! I couldn't believe it! She would ask people "Would you like to buy a raffle ticket for the American Cancer Society?" (Quite a mouthful for a 5 year old, but she had it down). They all thought she was so cute they couldn't bring themselves to tell her no. She told me, "Mommy, you just sit down over there and let me and Cori do this by ourselves. We'll call you if we need help." How could I argue with that? They were obviously doing a wonderful job without any help from me.

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kids raise money for American Cancer Society