The Lazy Organizer

I guess I will have to go ahead and tell you what I want to be, or do, when I grow up.  It’s not one of those things that I really want to do.  It’s something that I feel I must do.  Like homeschooling my children.  I don’t really want to homeschool them.  I would rather send them off on a big yellow bus and let someone deal with them all day.  I just know that I must and if I must, I must.  It’s as simple as that.

Heavenly Father knew when he told me to homeschool my children that I would fail.  That I would be terrible at it.  That I have more weaknesses than strengths.  He knew everything and he told me to do it anyway so I can’t be too hard on myself can I?  I just try my best and do it.

This next phase of my life is kind of like that.  I don’t want to do it but I guess I must.  So here’s what it is.  I’m going to build a school.  But it’s not going to be like any other kind of school because I’m not like any other person but I like to learn and I like to teach so it’s going to be like that.  People teaching and people learning and a little bit of everything else .  Crazy, I know.

I can’t say too much about it right now but I had to say something because I need your help.  In order to build a school I need money.  A million dollars in fact.  I could really use two million because a million dollars doesn’t go very far these days but a million would be a good start.

Last summer I read Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.  One of my favorite stories from it is about a preacher named Frank Gunsaulus who wanted to build a school.  He thought and thought about it for two years when he finally said, “ENOUGH!”  I need a million dollars to build this school and I will have it before the week is over.  And guess what?  He did.  I’m not going to tell you how he got it because I’m rude like that and I want you to read the book yourself but he got the money within thirty six hours of reaching a definite decision in his own mind to get it.

So that’s what I’m doing.  I have been thinking about this project for six years.  SIX YEARS!  It’s time to do something about it but the first thing I need is money.  I don’t want investors getting in my way and I don’t want to get a loan that I have to pay back.  I just want someone to give me the money.  I don’t think that should be too difficult considering how many people out there have money to burn.  They can just burn a little bit of it my way.

You don’t have a million dollars so where do you come in?  I know you know somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody who has that kind of money that is just waiting to give it to me so if you could start asking around I would really appreciate it.  $1,000,000.  That’s it.  Have them contact me here on my site and I will tell them where to send the check.  I can’t name my school after them because I already have a really cool name picked out but tell them I will put their name on a nice little plaque by the front door if that makes them happy.

Thank you so much!  I really do appreciate your help.  And if this doesn’t work I guess I could always raffle off a couple aprons and quilts and children and raise the money that way.  The little girls have been at Grandma’s for two days and I haven’t really missed them all that much.

(And now I’m going to hit publish before I change my mind about this one more time.)

Photos

I have one child that would love public school.  He would spend all his time jumping through the hoops and be deliriously happy doing it.  This other child though?  The one who reads sitting on her head?  I don’t think she could handle it and I would never want to squelch her fire by trying.

These photos were all taken within five minutes.  She reads for several hours a day but even then she can’t sit still.

August 26th, 2009 Lara Gallagher Posted in It's My Business | 13 Comments »

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