Well, hopefully you know that every year on President's Day, the Child Care Council holds a conference for Centers and Family and Group Family Child Care providers to come together and aquire a good chunk of hours of training. Well, they gifted us, the Capital District Family Day Care Association a table there. Linda manned (or womaned?) the table for the first half of the day there. We brought Flippees which unfortunately didn't sell at all. However, they were conversation starters! Everyone who walked by stopped to see what it was. When they did, they were all greeted with the same question, "Hi! Do you work at a Center or do you have your own child care within your home?" With this, we acquired one new member on the spot, a few other family child care providers left with our membership materials, and one woman from a Center even left with our membership materials and a strong interest in what we all do for a living! Also, we sold bottled water as a fund raising effort, but we only made about $20 doing that. Numbers were getting smaller as the day progressed, so quite honestly after lunch, I packed everything up in order to come home and be with my family. But overall, I'd say it was a really good day! We spread the word about the Association after all!