“This is so awesome,” she said this evening after a bank run to deposit funds which make the daycare on Clearfield Drive officially hers. “This is it. We start fresh with it being mine. We live in such an awesome town.”

Moseley, who came to the Gingerbread House after running a small daycare from her home, needed to raise $5,000 by the end of the month to take over the lease after its former owners decided to scale back.

It was a community effort, she said, that raised the $5000 and more, including $857 made from a lemonade stand today. “The parents have been amazing, the community, so many businesses. I can't think of all the people. I'll never be able to thank everybody.”

While a GoFundMe page raised a great deal of the funds, there was a hot dog stand, decal sales, parents bringing change and money, sales of pecan cakes and a 31 Bag raffle.

Children at the lemonade stand today.

Of course, she said, there was the lemonade stand. “I figured that was a good thing since we had a good history with that,” a reference to a lemonade stand children started at her home business to buy a water slide.

With the Gingerbread House hers, she has big plans. “We're going to continue to learn. There will be no gap in enrollment. We still have a huge enrollment. We're going to continue business as usual. I still have goals to expand.”

Moseley said she never lost faith the money wouldn't be raised to meet the lease payment. “Did I get tired? Yes. I never worried. God is so great. I somehow kept pushing through.”

Moseley arrived at the Gingerbread House last year, hired as its administrator and site supervisor. After the fund-raising drive, she said last month the day-to-day operating expenses will come from enrollment fees.

She said while the year has been a whirlwind, she never lost her faith. “Just watching God open doors. I had a lot of faith. He just shows me over and over he knows what's going to happen in your life.”