Re: fundraiser

[Guest guest]

Kim,

Please don't feel offended. You have really been on my mind and I

wanted to reply to your message yesterday, but I've had a lot on my

plate lately and I wrongly put your message aside to reply to this

evening. I do care about you and Connor. I think of you often.

Just know that between my husband being out of work, some issues

with Max and some other stuff going on at school, I have been

stressed to the max and really not myself. I just knew I should

have taken the time to respond and I did not. I'm sorry.

As far as the cookbook goes, I asked for recipes many, many times.

I had the cover picked out, the indexes chosen and was all set to

go. The response with recipes, however, was just too small. There

was not enough to justify the time, effort and expense to do it. We

needed to have about 100 and I did not even get 50. I know you

wanted to help - after all, you came up with a great name for it!!!

Silver Spoons was perfect! But I did not want to go through with it

and wind up losing money on it, either.

Kim, you are a valued member of this listserve. Perhaps people just

don't always know what to say???? I'm not making excuses. Perhaps

they, like me, just decided that tomorrow would be okay to respond.

But I am here and I hear you and I'm listening. I just wish I were

more creative with ideas for fundraising. That seems to be an area

that you are good at. It's so hard when we don't have a meeting

place for regular meetings to talk about these things.

I promise that the next time you post I will not assume that you can

wait for a reply. I will respond right away. I hope that others

do, too. You are important just like everyone else. No one should

feel lonely or ignored or left out.

Jodi

[Guest guest]

Kim,

I am so very sorry that we have hurt your feelings. I went back

and read your posts over the last 6 months or so and I am sorry that

you have not gotten responses. As far as the fundraisers, I am

totally not artistic so i have not had anything to contribute as far

as ideas.

I did read your post about Conner at Christmas and I'm sorry to

hear about your grandfather.

I agree with you that many people seem to get numerous responses

while others go without support when it is needed. I think the

reason is more about the amount of posts and information given for

some kids over others. You are less likely to get a response from

one posts than you are if you have alot of posts with great details.

I think that Ken's new personal files can help this so we can all get

to know each other better.

I hope that your future posts will provide the support that we all

know is needed at times.

Pattie