Silence no more!

I'm done being quite. My kids are home, safe and sound. No one can stand in the way of me raising them now. My blogs are no longer private. I will continue to share my thoughts and veiws of the world here but I'm not going anywhere for a while now that I have 7 kids. So more then likely this site may be ignored by me for a while longer. I will try to update my other blog often so if your interested in our adventures that sites a safer bet for you.

Just the Same

By Dianne Lynn Lacey

Sometimes-
God sends rain
Straight from the sky
To nourish the young flower
and it grows.

Sometime-
God sends rain from the sky
To the mountain tops,
Then over hills and through valleys
Until it reaches the flower
and it grows, just the same

Sometimes-
God sends a child
Straight from His realm
Into a mothers arms
and love grows

Sometimes-
God sends a child
From heaven to anothers arms,
Then over hills and through valleys
Until it reaches the arms of his mother
and the love grows, just the same.

The Silence

I have not posted here for while. I feel I need to be silent for a little bit. I will say something soon and EVERYONE will hear me!

Strike that last idea

By request of R the boutique is a no go. I will however sell my items on a blog I started a long time ago but never did anything with. I will keep you all posted as to when I get some items up on there. I will have some African jewelry, African hair bows, African baskets, etc...do you see a theme? I will put other stuff on there too but I have tons of African beads and fabric that I can do a lot with and it will kind of be sentimental. After all I am I sentimental kind of gal!

Fundraising for a personal reason this time

We are getting to the point in our adoption that we will need to start shelling out more money...that we don't have, really. I have been racking my brain about how I can help R alleviate this burden some. So, I came up with a plan to have a fundraising boutique at my house. I am not sure of the date yet. I will probably wait until I feel like I have enough stuff to raise a significant amount of money before I plan a date. It will for sure be in the next couple of months since we are tentatively planning on picking up Little Man and Big Man by the end of August. I am good at fundraising, but I have never made money for my own cause. I know that other adoptive families do fundraisers of some sort to raise money too. So I think this could be really successful.
My plea... I am pretty good at making creative stuff. However, I know some of my friends and family are significantly better then me. I am asking for donation of any cute things you make that my family could sell at our boutique. Hairbows, baby stuff, kids apparel, clothing, jewelry, magnets, scrape book stuff, gift baskets, wood project like frames or magnet boards, vinyl projects...etc. If you sell things like candles, cosmetics, pampered chef, stamps, or anything like that and have leftover inventory you don't know what to do with...I will take that too. Please let me know if you want to help me with any of this.
Hopefully I will be able to raise at least enough to alleviate a good amount of stress that I know R is feeling. R really hates asking others for help but this is the only way I feel I can significantly contribute to our cause.

Donation dollars at work!

Thanks again to everyone who helped with the fundraiser and also a big thanks to T for helping us get the money and donation to the right hands! The money was best used in different places as the need presented itself. $1,000 was hand delivered to Foyer De Sion. Some went to restock a couple orphanages with food. A large tent was able to be erected as a women's clinic (if the mothers are healthier then we have less chances of their children ending up in an orphanage, right?) Also some was spent on a small boy T found in a village who was not an orphan but needed medical attention desperately. T had discovered him on the trip before this one when he went to deliver food to a remote village. T told me that when he returned he would try to find to find him again and, if he was still alive, could we help with him with our donation. I told him a big fat "YES"! I will do a special post for him a little later! It is a touching story. But for now, here are some pics T sent of our $$$$ hard at work.

If anything can bring it home to your heart, this is it! Look at them. They are adorable and they are eating! Look at what we did together. You are all so amazing!

A product endorsement

This may be TMI, but I was in the bathroom the other day and since my magazine was missing I began to read the box of my feminine product of choice. After I got through all the scary information on TSS, something caught my eye. On the side on the box it said ...
"When you by our product you are helping girls in Africa..... to learn more visit this site" Well, You know I am all about helping girls in Africa but I had no idea I was doing it while I sat there...that's a big bonus for me.
I was curious and went to the website. I already new that girls in Africa miss lots of school because of there monthly visitor but I had no idea that P&G was doing something about it. Kind of interesting. Go ahead and learn more, even you guy readers can learn a thing or two and even help this cause with out an embarrassing trip to the store...My husband hates that errand!