Hope you all have been having a fun and memorable holiday weekend celebrating our independence day. We have! We spent Sunday afternoon with friends celebrating our adoption and watching our kids play together. It was a perfect day for a cook out and perfect fellowship for the entire family.
About a week ago my sister helped me make our photo book (digital photo album) to send to our son. This is recommended to make and send to your child, in hopes that the ayi's will share it with the child and help prepare them for our faces, who we all are, and that we love them and are coming for them. We made these for both our girl's adoptions, and they were both reviewed with them and they still had them on the day we met them in China. Lanzi loves looking at hers and we can often times find it hidden underneath her pillow today. We should be getting his in the mail from the digital company I imagine this week? Then I just need to figure out how I'm going to get it to him in China!
Monday I received an email from my social worker notifying me that our homestudy update had been reviewed and approved by our adoption agency. WOO HOO! So now it can get sent to her supervisor for proofing and notarization. After this important document if finalized and notarized we can move onto submitting our I800A to USCIS. We are also able to start applying for some grants. (there will be many late nights ahead writing..... :{ )
If you are on FB, you have probably noticed our puzzle fundraiser is coming along. We now are up to 52 pieces.......only 248 more to go! C'mon friends, aren't you at all curious what his name is? Not to mention another darling picture of him that you have NOT seen yet! Just $10. per puzzle piece(s), and we will write your name(s) on the back of your pieces so we can share with our son all the people that helped work towards bringing him HOME.
Oh listen to this GODwink that just happened last night! So I get a call from a friend (also named Denise) that I have had the privilege of getting to know and love personally, from another adoptive Mom. She was calling me to tell me that she has a friend that is hosting a Noonday Party Wed. the 5th (that was in 2 days, lol), and that she had shared our adoption story with her and she wanted to help. So the hostess (Nanette Maletich) has chosen to donate 15% of the total sales from her trunk show towards our adoption! Now why is this so surprising or different from me partnering with another independent sales company/consultant............because Nanette did not know me or of our family before last night. The Lord placed Denise Lowe and Nanette strategically and perfectly timed to help bless our family and also be a part of this beautiful community we are forming. Her party has been planned for over a week, and she just reached out to me last night and asked if she could bless our adoption with some of her party's sales. Isn't that neat! I certainly think so! I of course will share the link below and on our page, but by no means want anyone to be pressured into feeling like they have to buy merchandise. That is one of the hardest things about this fundraising- is trying to find a balance between getting information and different opportunities out there for all our different friends' interests, WITHOUT annoying you and making you feel as though you have to buy something every turn of the corner. You have NO idea how hard and humbling it is to week after week, day after day put myself and my family out there as we climb this mountain of adoption expenses/fees. But I can tell you with certainty that, we have climbed this mountain before, crossed oceans, all the way across to the other side of the world..........and there sleeps a little boy that is our son. He is waiting on us and depending on us for his medical care and to have a family that he can call his own. So I hope that you all can grant us the grace to putting up with all our means of funding this adoption. Better yet, I hope each of you will in some even small way be moved and touched by our story and the love that we have found in adoption and our FAMILY!
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