JEANS MONTH - HUGE SUCCESS!!!!!

We would like to share that our Jeans Month was a HUGE success!!! Trystan and Alyssa were able to raise $11,300 for St. Louis Children's Hospital 9th Floor Hematology/Oncology Unit.

Businesses had "clever" ways to participate in Jeans Month. We would like to share those with you:

-The Bond County Sheriff's Department allowed their deputies to pay to grow facial hair and their dispatchers to wear jeans.
-St. Mary's School, in Edwardsville, extended not only to their staff but to their students, who wear uniforms every day, to pay to wear their jeans on Fridays during the month of February!
-West Springs Church in Missouri dedicated a Jeans Sunday and all the members of the church paid $1 to wear their jeans to church that Sunday.
-Watson's Drug Store made buttons that said, "Ask Me Why I'm Wearing Jeans"
-McCracken, Dawdy, Hall Family Practice made stickers to explain why they were wearing jeans.
-Pickerill's Pick'n "N" Grinn'n hosted a fundraiser at their restaurant for an entire Saturday.

Those businesses that allowed their employees to pay to wear their jeans, varied in the way they participated. Some allowed their employees to wear jeans for the entire month! While others did once a week, every Friday, twice a week for the month, etc. Any way you look at it, the businesses of our community and surrounding communities came together to help "give back"!

We also had businesses and factories that are already allowed to wear jeans to work take up a collection just to help "give back."

We had more than three dozen businesses either participate or collecto donations:

The Hardas Team-Highland, IL
Bridget Tinsley Photography-Highland, IL
Southwestern Electric-Greenville, IL
DeCurtis Corporation-Orlando, FL
FCC Preschool-Greenville, IL
First National Bank-Greenville, IL
Washington University Department of Surgery-St. Louis, MO
Enertech-Greenville, IL
Greenville Elementary School-Greenville, IL
Midland State Bank-Greenville, IL
Tri-Ford-Highland, IL
Ford Square-Mt. Vernon, IL
Greenville Jr. High 6th Graders-Greenville, IL
Glow Salon & Med Spa-MO
West Springs Church-MO
Bradford National Bank-Greenville, IL
DeMoulin's-Greenville, IL
St. Mary's School-Edwardsville, IL
VFW Ladies Auxiliary-Highland, IL
Schnuck's-Fairview Heights, IL
Bond County Health Department-Greenville, IL
Bass Mollett-Greenville, IL
TRICOR Braun-MO
Bond County Courthouse-Greenville, IL
Montgomery County Nursing & Rehab-Hillsboro, IL
McCracken, Dawdy, Hall Family Practice-Greenville, IL
SIUE Human Resources-Edwardsville, IL
United Stationers-Greenville, IL
Main Street Galaxy Restaurant-Alhambra, IL
Terra Properties-Highland, IL
Bond County Sheriff's Department-Greenville, IL
IGA-Staunton, IL
Pickerill's Pick'n "N" Grinn'n-Staunton, IL
Ethal's-Highland, IL
Mulberry Grove Elementary School-Mulberry Grove, IL
Watson's Drug Store-Greenville, IL
Pocahontas & Sorento Elementary Schools-Pocahontas & Sorento, IL
Salon de Guerra-Highland, IL
Law Offices of Michael Diaz-Greenville, IL
Klaus Services-Highland, IL

Our family was overwhelmed with the response to Jeans Month. In the beginning we were hoping to raise $500-$1,000. That goal was met before February 1st. Our girls then set a goal of $5,000 and that was surpassed! Lastly, they set a goal of $10,000 which was met at the very end of March. But the calls and checks kept coming through the second week of March. Our family would like to thank the businesses who participated and gave donations! We would also like to thank the many inidividual donations we received from those who just wanted to give.

My husband and I took the girls down to St. Louis Children's Hospital March 21, 2010 to present the donations to the hospital. Upon arrival the hospital had printed a "HUGE" check to present. The girls presented the check to Dr. Wilson, Dr. Ziga, and Nurse Practitioner Karen from the 9th Floor.

Thank you all for everything,

The Watson Family :)

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

January 17-21, 2011

Monday-This morning both girls had fever and were hacking and coughing terribly. I called the doctor's office and spoke with a nurse. The nurse told me that they've seen a lot of this and it's a virus that just has to run its course. But, because Trystan's immune system is at risk, they wanted to evaluate her to be safe. We had to go to the Pocahontas office to see the doctor because they were completely booked in Greenville. Alyssa stayed home with Grandma until Tracy got back from work. We saw the doctor and he looked her over real good and said that he thought it was a virus but prescribed a cough medicine for her and Alyssa's cough. Trystan and I then ran to Greenville CVS to pick up that script and some Gaterade. We then came home. Trystan's fever seemed to have broke today. Hopefully, Alyssa will follow. No school for my kiddos tomorrow though. Too sick!


Tuesday-Trystan woke up with a little more energy today, but still coughing really bad. Alyssa woke up still with fever and coughing. Hoping her fever breaks today. While home with the two sick ones, I was disinfecting again when the phone rang. It was WGEL, the local radio station, they had seen the article that the Greenville Advocate put in the paper about Jeans Month. He was wanting some additional information so he can put it on the radio later today. They were so excited to be able to hear their names on the radio! On and off through the day Alyssa's fever would be up and down. At 3:00 p.m. I went to pick up the girls' school work, came home and the girls got to work without me ever getting on them about it. :)


Wednesday-Trystan was back to school today and was so happy! Alyssa was upset to have to stay home and miss another day. I am so glad that both of our girls really enjoy school. Alyssa had no fever at all today! Yeah!! That means she should be able to return to school tomorrow, that is if they don't have a snow day.


Thursday-Yep. There was a snow day today. I think we must have gotten almost a foot of snow! Only the girls couldn't go outside because they were still coughing pretty badly. We did however run into town to the grocery store. The country roads were very snowcovered but not too bad to drive on since the plow had come through earlier. In town, the main roads were great! Not sure if they'll have school tomorrow though because of drifting snow?

We've gotten more interest in the Jeans Month! We are all so excited at the response we are getting. We never knew that it would have gotten as big as it has! Thank you all for supporting our girls' cause!


Friday-No school again today. Most kids are probably jumping up and down because there's no school. Not the Watson girls. They love school! They're a little upset. I think that it's maybe because they know that the more days they have off because of the weather, the longer they'll have to go into June. :)
Well tomorrow is the big day! We'll be rising early and heading accross the river to Fox 2! The girls are very excited to be on tv, but most of all because they get to see Teresa Woodard!!

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