One Proud Mom!

Craig came to me a few weeks ago,
He asked me if he could sell some things on Ebay. I told him to wright out a well thought out listing and I'd read it and decide. He brought me the most wonderful letter to post.
This is what he wrote...

My name is Craig. I have 3 little brothers and 1 baby sister. The reason I am doing this auction is to try to do something for my mom.

My mom is a great mom. My brothers and me have been pretty bad lately.
My grades were not very good but my other brother Chris had bad grades to! Don’t worry tho we are doing much better with our grades now.
My mom got mad about the grades and we got grounded till they got better.

My mom buys us all the stuff we need. She cooks really good food.
And all my friends think she is really cool because she is really nice and fun.
But she never gets anything. She doesn’t even get anything for herself when she goes to the store unless she really REALLY needs it like sometimes shampoo and stuff.

On her birthday all of us and our dad forgot her birthday was that day. She didn’t even get mad or cry or anything. She just said it was ok and she knows we love her anyways.

At Christmas, she got all of us kids what we wanted but didn’t save any money from my dads paycheck for him to get her anything.
She said it was ok because she has more fun watching everybody else get what they want than she would getting a present for her.
So she didn’t even get anything but drawings and stuff we made at school from us kids for Christmas. She told my dad that she wanted to order a bunch of seed for her garden soon and that would be her present from him.

We live in Texas. My mom wants to make our place into a farm. When she was little that’s all she wanted when she grew up. Was a farm

Mom grows a big garden every year. With lots of tomatos ( I DO NOT LIKE THEM!) and lots of other stuff that she likes to cook and can to keep all year, she makes really good jelly and Amish peanutbutter is the best!

She has chickens and they make really good eggs for us to eat and cook stuff with.

But she really wants to get a cow. She said she really wants to play at making cheese and milk from the cow.
We have a pasture and shelter for it. We have all the food it would need. But cows cost a lot of money to buy! They are expensive! The ones that make good milk are more money than the ones you just use for steak and hamburgers. The cows she found were $1000 wow! That’s a lot! I know my stuff wont sell for that much. But it’s a way to start.

I want to do something really nice for my mom because she does a lot for me and my brothers and sister and dad

I want to sell my ...

I just sat down and cried. What a sweet boy I have!!
we decided that I would let him post it if he typed it to practice for keyboarding class.
You would not believe how many people have gone to his auction!!
its been up for a little over 2 days and we have had over 4000 hits!!
Its just crazy and seems to have taken on a life of its own!
I'll keep tabs on it here.
Its just crazy! But I am so proud of him!
he is growing into quite a fine young man!

Ain't that the way kids are?? Just when you are about to KILL them , they go and do something sweet?? lol

here is a link to Craig's auction......
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5658566556&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1