I Survived…

I survived the fall festival. I forgot two or three things I needed to get but we had them in the school after all which was awesome. I was so anxious about the fall festival that I lost sleep over it and was contemplating my resignation from my position as PTA president if things went horribly wrong. Instead things went wonderfully right.

Donations rolled in heavily the last two or three days before the festival and we had to store away donated pop. We ended up with 53 prizes donated for the raffle (all right ten of them were donated by me) but still we had some awesome things donated by staff and parents. Someone took my spot there and that was awesome because it left me to run around and try to stress as I remembered things I forgot to do like give the concession stand water and wonder where our wonderful church ladies were to serve the food. I need to get some blank thank you notes to write to our wonderful teachers and staff who did all of this hard work. Our biggest problem was we ran out of tickets! A few parents and I raced around to pick up tickets that had not been torn to recycle tehm immediately and I ended up breaking into the tickets we were not planning on using. That was the longest line for us; ticket sales and that seemed appropriate. I think we went through either 18 or 22 pizzas which was three pizzas too many. I had the good sense to ask the delivery guy on the second round to leave his warming bags for us. We sold out of Cotton Candy way too early and we hat a lot too much popcorn which was fine; we can use the rest of the popcorn for Royal Knights this month. The pop was a little excessive and people were winning and taking 2 liter pop from the start so we had more than enough. We had too many chips too but I think I am going to try and sell those at back to school night next month.

Mrs. R and I counted the money before we left and it looks like we brought in over 1100 dollars which is huge for our school. I need to do the math but I think it is about 800 in profit for the school. I was flying high after doing it but I was so sore! I spent my morning at Southwick Elementary school teaching my first JA day of the year which went really well. They were sweet little first graders and their teacher had them really well undercontrol. I am so thankful that the JA staff let me ride with them there.