Achieving the Impossible

If people could catch a glimpse of the day I had yesterday they would weep. That's what I was doing anyways. All day long I received message after message. E-mail after e-mail. And after each one, I cried. It was so hard for me to wrap my head around how selfless all my parents, friends, family, and supporters are. Not only did it make me happy to know that my parents would be able to go on a guilt-free trip to Hawai'i but to also know that the world I'm raising my kids in is still full of loving, giving people.
When I started this GoFundMe account I wanted to be clear that this trip was for a vacation. It wasn't to help Dad get better. But so many of you realized that this vacation was to help him get better. To help him relax, and to go visit the place his heart resides. To give him hope.
I'll be honest, when I had to set a goal I thought, "why not set a crazy outlandish goal?" So I did. I thought. $5,000 to be raised by the kindness of others for a trip to Hawaii. I knew everyone was kind and rooting for Dad but I didn't know how much until my phone started going off nonstop. I watched as the list of donors got longer and longer and the total soared higher and higher. I was elated when we reached $1,000 after a few hours. Boggled when we hit the halfway mark, and dumbfounded when at the 23 hour mark we had achieved 75% of our goal. This morning I stared at my phone in shock. Not only did we hit the goal, but someone had blown it out of the water with a large donation knowing we only needed $90 to reach our goal. I called my parents and told them we reached our goal. Dad had me on speakerphone so Mom could hear. They were both speechless. Dad just kept saying, "I really just don't know what to say." And Mom literally said nothing, which if you know her tells you how shocked she was.
So thank you a thousand times over for helping me with two miracles:
Raising the $5,000 that I thought was impossible and making my Mom speechless, which I also thought was impossible. I love you, Mom!!