SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A 9-year-old started his own business to make a very special purchase.
Tristin Jacobson opened up a lemonade stand to raise money to pay for his very own adoption.
“I’m happy because I have a new mom who loves me,” Tristan told the Springfield News-Leader.
Four years ago, Jacobson’s biological mother left him on the doorstep of a Missouri shelter on a cold January day.
Donnie Davis got a call about Tristin, and she’s been taking care of him ever since.
Jacobson has always wanted Davis to adopt him, but she couldn’t afford the legal fees.
So this past week he opened up a lemonade stand to raise money.
Tristin’s story went viral, and Springfield News Leader reports that as of this weekend, Jacobson has enough money to pay for his adoption.
Their goal was $5,000, and they raised a total of $14,000.
Tristan’s lemonade stand and a yard sale raised about $7,100, and a fundraiser they started on YouCaring.com raised more than $8,400 as of Monday morning.
“It means everything. He is absolutely our son. He is in our hearts,” Donnie Davis told the paper. “This is more for reassurance for him, knowing that he has his forever family and he has our name.”
Davis, who held a yard sale, says the extra money will go toward Jacobson’s college education.
