Behind the scenes.

I've done a bit more PTA work this week.  Yesterday, I printed out 20 fundraiser letters for our Walkathon, bought 20 Red Delicious apples and my daughter and I went around to local businesses to ask for their support.  Kat did most of the talking and I supported her as needed.  She explained who she was, where she was from, what she wanted and how each business could help.  Kat was able to get one $250 check and two promises from the 6 places we stopped.
This was such a victory over last year.  Last year we were only able to obtain 1 sponsor for our Walkathon.  I think this is because I emailed businesses last year and this year had my sweet little girl hand over an apple and a smile to each representative.  It is really hard to tell an 8 year old that you won't support her school!
Tomorrow we will drive to a few more businesses and ask for their support.

I also swung into the district printing office and asked them to make us 250 envelopes for our PTA membership drive.  The past president printed the envelopes on her own and paid for all of the costs, that is not my cup of tea so I opted to have it done for us for $30.  I prefer to use my time and money in other ways such as painting the school library...

Today, I woke early and threw on work clothes.  I hit the school where I taped lines on the wall of the library.  Our school library has a short hall that leads from the main hallway of the school into the main reading room of the library.  The hall is low ceiling-ed and ugly.  We decided to paint it as a rainbow, up the walls and across the ceiling for each color of the rainbow.  I had to get the tape straight so that the paint lines would look nice.  Now that the tape is up I am ready to paint and will start that job later this week.

After taping, I grabbed 600 feet of hose and watered our new trees.  We have about 10 trees with Gator Bags to hold water and they need to be refilled once a week.  This was my first stint with the hose, it was messy but it was a pleasant morning so I was happy to be outside!

I got home about noon, cleaned house for an hour and ran to work.