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Donation For Adoption Fundraising!

Since I’m trying to grow my friend Helen’s online business (especially since she just learned that she is going to be a mommy herself!) AND since I have a real heart for families trying hard to come up with the money to finance their international adoptions, I am personally donating one charm to be used for an adoption fundraiser.

So, here’s the deal. If you are under contract with an adoption agency already and currently doing a fundraiser(s) to finance your adoption, you are eligible to win. I will personally pay for one charm for the winner (of up to a $50 value and free shipping) from www.jiayindesigns.com to be auctioned off or raffled off or whatever as a fundraiser for you on your blog or fundraising site. The winner of the charm from your fundraiser can customize the charm.



To enter, just grab this button above and add it to your blog. All you have to do is highlight the code in the box above. Then, in blogger, go to design and then “add a gadget.” Click on “html/java script.” You can leave the title blank but in the box, paste the code you copied from here. If it doesn’t work for you, let me know.

Then, add your fundraiser link to the list below. Hopefully, you’ll get some new visitors to your fundraiser site as well! You can enter up until Sunday at midnight on August 8th. Then, we’ll pick a random winner for the charm fundraiser!

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awww….

“Mama, I not ever stop loving you.

I see you; I love you.

I see you; I love you.

I see you; I love you.

I not see you; I cry.”

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Thursday’s Things to Pray For

  1. Thank God that the kids enjoyed our visit to MD and that Lydia did well with the change of scenery. Pray that she “recognizes” home today as we get back to routine and that she connects well with Mark again. She did not want to go to him last night after being away from him for a few days.
  2. Pray for increased business for Jiayin Designs. The woman I am helping to run it recently found out that she is expecting! This is very exciting, but all the more reason that I’m praying the business really increases for her so that she can provide for her family well through it. We’re working on adding a few more items to the website. 
  3. Thank God that we’ve seen such maturity lately in Evan. Learning to swim this summer and passing that swim test was huge for him. We have seen him grow in so many ways because of his increased confidence gained through that. We are so thankful for that.
  4. I started Beth Moore’s devotional 90 Days With the One and Only. Pray for consistency in doing the devotions and for my eyes to be open to what the Lord wants to teach me through it.

If you want to join up and post requests on your blog too, let me know. I’ve figured out how to do it but want to see if there’s any interest first.

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Fun in MD

I’ve been a little more quiet on the blog than usual lately because we’ve been hanging out with my fam down in MD. I brought the kiddos down here on Sunday (enjoy the silence at home, Mark, while you still have it!), and we’ve been doing fun stuff around here for a few days. Here are some highlights (I’m leaving out the picture of my parents’ new ginormous tv though we have several pictures that the kids insisted on taking…maybe those pics are worthy of their own post really).

Lydia and cousin Audrey seriously working out hydro-engineering issues in the water play area at the MD Science Center today.

That’s my mom. She can’t see her hand in an optical illusion. She found this much more interesting than my kids did who tend to have some serious attention issues at places like this, just racing around to the next thing.

My dad, cousins Bohdan and Maddie, and Drew floating in space. Wonder how many strange people wore these suits before they did. Ick. Oh well, gotta let that go a little in the name of fun….right? Please affirm me before I wake Drew up right now and make him wash himself one last time just to make sure he’s totally clean.

Evan here totally digging the tornado simulator. He’s smiling, but he’s thinking, “There’s no place like home.” Actually, that’s probably not at all what he was thinking since he is a total museum lover.

Drew and cousin Bohdan standing in a model of a dinosaur nest being dinosaurs. Two 4 year olds, dinosaurs or not, could be pretty scary if you ask me.

Granddaddy and Lydia. Just a sweet moment together caught at the computer simulating the movement of the Earth’s platelets…or something like that.

Evan admiring a pirate ship riding around the harbor. Right after this picture was taken, the woman on board in full pirate character yelled, “Ahoy, Landlovers!” while the kids on board tried to shoot us with water canons. Scallywags.

Even after a long day at the Science Center and walking around outside, I’ve got the cutest kiddos ever. Unfortunately, Lydia had succumbed to sleep in the stroller by the time I took these pictures. Boo. I would have loved pics of all 4 of them like this. They are seriously adorable.

By the way, anyone close enough to the Science Center in Baltimore who reads this and has a Chinese child (or will soon!), I recommend the Sesame Street planetarium show. It had a Chinese Sesame Street puppet in it who taught some simple Chinese words (including Yue– the word for moon and part of Lydia’s name!) and sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in Chinese–which totally captured Lydia’s attention. As soon as the puppet was done, she started clapping! Not something that might sound impressive, but she didn’t care one bit about the English version. No applause at all. But, the Chinese version made her pretty happy. I wonder if she had heard it before?

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