Red Thread T-Shirts; Pre Sales Are Open!

We are so excited to announce that our Red Thread fundraiser t-shirts (2 styles) are now available for pre sale! We are selling them to help with the cost of our adoption and, just as importantly, to raise awareness for adoption!

If you feel so called, please share with your friends!  I can email you the PDF order form if interested and to distribute.

Thank you all for your support!

I am extremely thankful for the amazing help of Leigh-Ann, who has been vital in her leadership role!

Gordon Family Fundraiser! November 15 - Cold Stone Creamery

My new friend Meagan Gordon needs your help!  She needs you to eat ice cream! :)

They are having an awesome fundraiser at Cold Stone Creamery in Starkville on November 15 from 5-8 pm.  Read all about it here!

What a simple way you can help bring home their son Max from Ethiopia!

Dossier (nearly) Done!

After finishing the Turkey Trot Saturday, Vanessa, Madison, Elliott and I headed off to finish my dossier copies and assemble the package.  After Vanessa and I's assembly line package organization, it was off to the UPS store to spend $60 in order to get it to Oregon by Monday morning.  Was that crazy?  Yes it was.  However, that gave the agency all this week to review it.  Allow me to share some great news:

I just wanted to let you know that I was able to read and review your dossier ... Everything looks perfect! I prepared your dossier so that it is all set for shipment the moment I receive your certified and authenticated photocopy of your 797 approval notice. Well done! You have done a great job compiling your dossier. I look forward to shipping it on your behalf once I receive this final document.

As Dooce is famous for saying, I want to be the Valedictorian (or at least the Salutatorian, wink) of dossier preparation.  I think that this success, combined with last time, might just get me in the running! ;)

In all seriousness, my mailbox stalking will increase tenfold now.  That piece of paper is all that is standing in the way of us getting on that waiting list.  AAAHHH!  But I am so thankful that I do not have to redo any documents.  I pray when it reaches the CCCWA down the road that they too will think it's perfect.

I mean, look at all this hard work!

One more step complete...

 

November is National Adoption Awareness Month!

Friends, I have so many unwritten posts to share with you, including but not limited to:

• Turkey Trot 5k
• Dossier
• Red Thread Fundraising!

Keep checking back!