Relaying for a Cure

I cannot believe how busy this week has been for me! I am co-captain of our Relay for Life team and you cannot believe the time it takes to get everything done. We started our fund raising back in the Fall making Christmas light presents (we made $800 + on those); then, we made a few aprons to sell at the Relay (Last year we made $3000 + on those); we sold candles which would be lighted on Mother's Day in honor and memory of mothers (that brought in $174);and, we are raffling a donated wheel barrow loaded with garden supplies and a cedar chest the night of the Relay (so far, we have raised over $900 and hope to sell more at the Relay). We will also have a bake sale at the Relay and hope to raise at least $200 there. We are very proud of our team and its hard work to raise money to fight cancer. My sister and I debated not doing the relay this year due to all the hard, hard work; however, when we thought of our brother-in-law, sister and their family, we decided to try again to get more enthusiasm going. Actually, we would probably do better just donating all that we spend to get the team up and running than we do this way. Yet, if we can help to find a light at the end of this dismal tunnel, we feel that our work has not been in vain.

I hope that you, too, are involved with a Relay for Life event. If so, God Bless you! It's such a worthy cause and we need to do all we can to fight this disease.