grant update

Not much to report. I did get a response from GOA but it didn't acknowledge my confusion; they just said to update the financial part of our application and email it back. I did, and they said it will be reviewed during the September meeting.

~sigh~

Because of all of the success of our fundraisers and what we've sold on ebay, we changed our requested amount from $5000 to $3000. Considering they approve around 8 families per month, it seems hard to believe there is a better "qualified" family out there... child with special needs, life-threatening medical issue, four kids at home already, pretty mediocre income for a family of our size, tons of fundraising, requesting less than the average grant awarded - what more could we toss in to the mix? :P

Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers at the end of the month - getting this would let us stop obsessing about raising funds and start obsessing about how to fit everything into our suitcases! ^_^