Only $6.50 for these 5 Cards from Yes Teacher. If someone sent me this in the mail or hid it in the book I was reading, I would no doubt be having a groovy day. And, everybody needs a few groovy days.
Archives for May 2012
A challenge I’m doing cartwheels over
I’ve been working hard to promote The Sparrow Fund’s May fundraiser to Build the Nest.
When I asked online for bloggers to help spread the word by sharing their sidebar with us by adding this button ( ——–> see said button), I was not expecting to get this message:
I will personally match shopping made up to 1000.00.
How does that work??
wow.
She went onto to tell me how much she appreciates what The Sparrow Fund is doing and how she wants to encourage the businesses who have made such a big commitment to give 10% of sales to support adoption. She wanted to challenge people to step up and support the work and the businesses too.
And, she posted a blog entry today with that challenge — for everyone who comments there with their first name, the store name where they shopped, and the total amount spent — Leah will MATCH dollar for dollar in a donation directly to The Sparrow Fund up to $1,000.
So, if you make a purchase in the next 2 days from any of those stores, not only will 10% of your purchase go to The Sparrow Fund, you can make that 110% simply by commenting on her blog.
In case you needed an excuse to shop, I think you officially have one.
1. Check out the links to our partners HERE.
2. Purchase something or somethings–anything from jewelry to books to baby gifts to wall art.
3. Go make sure Leah knows you did by commenting on her blog post HERE with your first name, the store name, and the total amount of your purchase.
I know we can do it.
And, I’m already in awe of how God is multiplying that 10%…just like we knew He would.
20 Defining Moments in My Motherhood
1. My reaction when a doctor told me on the phone it would be “nearly impossible” for us to conceive.
2. Each of the 4 times we heard for the first time that our babies were no longer growing and we were going to miscarry.
3. Driving to the hospital in labor with our first.
4. When my mom left our house the week after we had Evan and left me on my own to be a mommy.
5. Taking a pregnancy test and laughing aloud as I held 1-year-old Evan on my hip and learned we were having another.
6. Strategizing with Mark in the hospital after delivering Ashlyn about how we were going to manage 2 little children—that ended with me in tears.
7. Hearing Evan say his name for the first time after months of therapy and wondering if he’d ever speak.
8. A conversation with Mark during lunch out about me wanting another child (as the two we had were squirming and crying and Mark looked at me wide-eyed as if I had lost my mind).
9. Our first conversation about adoption and the dream I had that night about a little Asian girl calling me Mama at my bedside.
10. When the doctor who had just told us we were miscarrying again called us later that day to tell us he might be wrong = Drew, 7 months later.
11. Drew’s tumultuous delivery, seeing his limp body, hearing my husband crying, not knowing if our son was alive or dead and then hearing his cry.
12. Crying with Evan’s kindergarten teacher as we read his evaluation report together when she told me, “There is nothing wrong with him. He doesn’t need to be fixed.”
13. Dancing around the dining room with joy when we knew that Lydia was going to be ours and saying her full name for the first time.
14. My first glimpse of Lydia in real life as she came into that sterile office in the arms of an orphanage nanny and lit up the room.
15. Overhearing Ashlyn speak softly and lovingly to Lydia in the middle of the night to calm her and help her fall back to sleep.
16. Watching Drew day in and day out pursue his little sister and dote on her even when faced with rejection.
17. Shopping alone with Lydia when I realized I was attached.
18. Ashlyn praying at night, thanking God that she could learn more about Him.
19. Peeking in Evan’s room to find him devouring Harry Potter books, one at a time, the boy who said he never wanted to learn to read and yelled, “I hate learning!” a few years earlier.
20. Celebrating Mother’s Day with an uneventful breakfast out as a family followed by pictures with all 4 children smiling at the same time.
My bird treasury
In Vol. 1, I showcased a few of my favorites from a few of our partners. But, there is oh-so-much-more to show off to all of you.
And, since I have a thing for birds….
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