Help me

I’m planning a Silent Auction. Me and an army of women from the Moms Club that I’m a member of. You see, one of our members is struggling with Breast Cancer and we want to help her. While pats on the back and hugs are always welcome, we know what really helps. Money. So we’re going to give her some. We are collecting donations from friends, any local businesses that are feeling generous, members of the club and members of the church that our member and her mother both go to. It’s going to be a gala event. It’s going to be a lot of work.

And I need you.

Now you know that I would do anything for you. Anything that doesn’t involve interrupting naptime, which is something that I hold dear. Knowing that I would do anything for you, you can count on this. I’m hoping you’ll do something for me. I’m coming. I’m coming to ask you for stuff. If you knit, I’m coming to ask you to make a scarf to auction. If you bake, I’m going to sweet talk you into making those special brownies for us to auction. (Not THOSE special brownies.) If you work for a company that could provide something that we could auction off to make money for this family, prepare to ask for it. Or prepare to tell me no.

I believe strongly in the cause, because I can’t imagine how it must feel to know that you may not get to watch your children graduate from college. I can’t imagine and it hurts me to think about it. So much that when I went into a local store, The Purple Pea to ask for a donation yesterday, I completely involuntarily started tearing up while I was asking. I couldn’t help it. I didn’t intend it. I apologized profusely and told the owner that I was going to have to get better at this. She replied, “No, I think this is working for you”, and she agreed to donate something to us. Now this is a NICE store with some of the most beautiful Raku pieces I’ve ever seen. And if I had an extra 300.00. I’d have one sitting on my entertainment center. So, if I can go in and ask a total stranger, certainly I can ask you. And certainly you’ll help me, right? Help me help someone else. Because that’s what it’s all about.