Finding My Mission

I haven't mentioned my new mission before because I didn't want the whole world to know that on top of being rude I am incredibly selfish. I know. Shocking. I do want to change though.

I make quilts. They take hundreds of hours and I do a lot of the sewing by hand. I had someone ask me recently what I do with them. Do I give them away? No. They are too much work for me to part with. Do I use them? No. Well, I hang some of them around the house and my kids all have baby quilts that they have used but here's what I do with most of them. I fold them up and store them in a cupboard.

I have been on a quest for several months to become more giving and selfless. I secretly try to do one act of service for someone every day which means I may get around to it about once a week. But it makes me happy. I want to do more.

I have a burning desire to help foster kids. Stranger and I almost became foster parents a few years ago. We took hours and hours of classes but then they lost our application. We filled out another one but then they lost our background check. By the time we straightened that out I was pregnant and we had just bought our property so foster care was brushed aside but not forgotten.

I decided that once our house was finished I wanted to have a huge Halloween party and charge all my friends and family to come. Then I wanted to donate the money to help foster kids. Can life get any worse for a child than being ripped away from your family or having a family that just doesn't want you anymore? I don't think so.

Now I know that our house will never be finished so the party just isn't happening but I have a new idea. What if I were to raffle off one of my quilts and donate the money to help foster kids? Could I do that here on my blog? Would you, my blog readers, buy a ticket to win one of my quilts? How would you know that I was donating the money and not just using it to buy more quilting fabric for my habit? That's what I'm wondering.