One cupcake at a time....

I am keeping up with my promise to write often :)

These past few weeks have been some of the most spiritually/physically/mentally/emotionally trying times of my life, and not just in the area of support raising. I knew going into this that it would not be easy, and I was ready to face that, but in preparing myself for this journey I sorta forgot that life tends to get in the way. More on that later.

I have been struggling a lot with discouragement coming from all sides on support raising. The day before I wrote my first blog post I had raised exactly $50. In three weeks. A start, but not exactly blowing out of the water. Then I got a large check in the mail and was highly encouraged, which inspired me to start this blog. But still... I get discouraged really easily, especially when people who I really look up to are pessimistic about my support raising.

I have spent some time the past few months helping Dancin Gators get ready for Relay for Life, which was this past weekend. One of my greatest discouragements for raising support for summer project came from my inability to get people to donate to my account for Relay for Life... my thought process was "If people don't even want to donate to cancer research how are they gonna want to send me money to go to Disney World?"

Anyways, I ended up not doing Relay for Life. Also, more on that at a later date. One of my best friends on the planet came up and surprised me this weekend and it meant the world to me. It was just what I needed to get back on track. I had a bake sale at Theta Alpha chapter last night (shoutout to my ladies!) and was knocked off my feet at the generosity of my poor college friends. But thats probably where most of my support is going to come from. One dollar at a time. Who would have thought that a few baked goods could get me $168.88???

God is so good. I am up to 28%.
A friend who is also trying to raise support sent out a message the other day saying that God is so faithful even when we are faithless. And its so true.

Supporter shoutout:
Jessie Fairfax
Lisa Coraci
Brittany Clark
Theta Alpha :)


Special shoutouts to Megan Fleming and Lexis Strobel, who helped me bake (I am a disaster in the kitchen) and to the amazing Caroline Burns who has been pretty much guiding me through this process and had the great idea of the bakesale.

I love you all!!
Kelly