The first Bucks For Ducks Fund for the Tristate event will have taken place a year ago in eight days. This time last year I was scrambling to tie loose ends. I was a mess x2038472; I was eager, nervous, and overwhelmed. At that time, I had no idea what the fund would come to mean to me and the impact it would have on others. All I knew was that I had fifths disease, couldn't move more than .3 miles per hour, and was couch bound attempting to organize an event while the clock was ticking. I had no idea that when I totaled up the money and I would discover that, with the communities help, the fund raised 7,000 dollars. That allowed us to order over 200 CHEMO DUCKS for the children receiving Chemotherapy at HOOPS. I had no clue I would be given the ever so humbling opportunity to hand out some of the Chemo Ducks to the pediatric oncology patients at HOOPS at their Christmas Party.
And I had absolutely no idea I would I discover I was a Distinguished finalist for the Spirit of the Prudential Awards and be able to share the news with my Papaw during one of his last days- one of my last and fondest memories with him.
Flash forward to today where I am currently planning this years fundraising event. I sit here typing this on my laptop in total awe of what God has done. Time has flown. So much has happened in a single year and I couldn't be more thankful. All glory goes to God.
A year ago today, I wasn't even sure if I could do it. And without the Lord, I couldn't have done it. He is the "promise maker, promise keeper. [He finishes] what he begins."
And I had absolutely no idea I would I discover I was a Distinguished finalist for the Spirit of the Prudential Awards and be able to share the news with my Papaw during one of his last days- one of my last and fondest memories with him.
Flash forward to today where I am currently planning this years fundraising event. I sit here typing this on my laptop in total awe of what God has done. Time has flown. So much has happened in a single year and I couldn't be more thankful. All glory goes to God.
A year ago today, I wasn't even sure if I could do it. And without the Lord, I couldn't have done it. He is the "promise maker, promise keeper. [He finishes] what he begins."