Thankful Thursday

I'm so thankful that now that I work for Tastefully Simple, I'm able to do more to help out the community. When we moved to Rochester, I sought out as many resources as I could to learn about the new area. One of the things I found was a website called RochesterMommies.com. I joined, and immediately took advantage of the message boards to meet other moms and find things to do with Gavin. Well, last month, I learned via the message boards about a local family who had just received word their 5 year old had cancer. Now that I'm a mom, these stories hit me even harder. Jarrod and I had just gone over insurance policies available through his work, and I couldn't help but think about how the medical bills would be so hard to deal with on top of knowing your son was battling leukemia. My heart went out to them. After a couple weeks of planning, another mom from RochesterMommies.com and I have officially started a Tastefully Simple fundraiser to raise money for the family. I'm donating 15% of the sales to Abigail and her family. My original goal was to hit $1000 in sales and be able to send her a check for $150. But, just two days in, we're already close to $200 in sales, and the fundraiser goes for 3 weeks! I'm so thankful that I'm able to do this for her family, because not only is she a fellow Rochester mommy, but she's also a Tastefully Simple consultant herself!
**If you want to participate in the fundraiser, just email me!**