Saturday, July 21, 2012
Pouring on the Help
Have you heard of Hope Mob? Well, if not, today is the perfect day to learn!
Hope Mob is basically bringing together a "mob" of people to support good causes. Their "brief description" states... "
They have "stories" that people nominate such as providing a home for someone in a Uganda, building a well in Haiti, helping a family whose youngster has cancer, sending a high school class in Kenya to school, buying a van for rescued trafficking victims in Mexico City, etc. It's amazing. Their tagline is "Where generous strangers unite." and that becomes reality. These stories are voted on until one becomes the featured story of the day and it is then open for people to donate money toward.
I first learned of Hope Mob through a Haiti adoption group, as they are trying to get donated airline miles for those adopting from Haiti to become a featured story.
They normally take a while for a story to become featured... but today they are putting a halt to that in order to help those affected by the tragedy in Aurora, CO. Please go HERE to see for yourself the wonderful way they are banding together to help those in Colorado during this time! They are looking to raise a whopping $100,000! At this time they have almost $2,300. Is $100,000 do-able? Is it crazy? I think both! Our God is a mighty God! I have seen HIM raise $20,000 toward an adoption. I have seen HIM do some AMAZING things, and I know this goal is attainable!
GO HOPE MOB!
Hope Mob is basically bringing together a "mob" of people to support good causes. Their "brief description" states... "
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I first learned of Hope Mob through a Haiti adoption group, as they are trying to get donated airline miles for those adopting from Haiti to become a featured story.
They normally take a while for a story to become featured... but today they are putting a halt to that in order to help those affected by the tragedy in Aurora, CO. Please go HERE to see for yourself the wonderful way they are banding together to help those in Colorado during this time! They are looking to raise a whopping $100,000! At this time they have almost $2,300. Is $100,000 do-able? Is it crazy? I think both! Our God is a mighty God! I have seen HIM raise $20,000 toward an adoption. I have seen HIM do some AMAZING things, and I know this goal is attainable!
GO HOPE MOB!
Friday, July 20, 2012
Bad Blogger
I've been a bad bad blogger! I must say I enjoyed doing the 31 days of Pinterest and being on this blog every day sharing our "pin" of the day! Maybe I need to start that again!?
Been a busy week with school supply shopping (yes, I want it over with to enjoy the rest of the summer and something like that is easier with one less child in the mix! :) ), selling more "excess" from around the house on FB (put about $200 into my adoption fund just this week doing this!), taking the boys to the morning dollar movie, going to our pond oasis, and just working in the house!
We've been missing this one like crazy and she finally came back to us...
I can't tell you the wonderful time Olivia had at camp this week! She met some great new friends and cannot WAIT to go back next year! Her favorite part? Being able to talk about HIV and not worry about people being scared of it. :) Two of the friends she made, whose moms I had already known online through blogs, FB, and a yahoo group, live in MN. We had already started thinking about a trip over spring break to the Mall of America this year and planned on visiting a good blog/FB friend of mine that I still have never met, so these two might just be added into the mix!
In adoption news... my home study and approval should be arriving any day and I'm preparing my application for my I-600a to mail off as soon as possible! I had hoped it would be here today but no luck, so now I set my sights on tomorrow! :)
I'm a member of a facebook Haiti adoption group and there has been LOTS of movement in their adoptions recently. That is SUCH good news! Here's hoping the rest of our process goes smoothly and quickly!
Been a busy week with school supply shopping (yes, I want it over with to enjoy the rest of the summer and something like that is easier with one less child in the mix! :) ), selling more "excess" from around the house on FB (put about $200 into my adoption fund just this week doing this!), taking the boys to the morning dollar movie, going to our pond oasis, and just working in the house!
We've been missing this one like crazy and she finally came back to us...
I can't tell you the wonderful time Olivia had at camp this week! She met some great new friends and cannot WAIT to go back next year! Her favorite part? Being able to talk about HIV and not worry about people being scared of it. :) Two of the friends she made, whose moms I had already known online through blogs, FB, and a yahoo group, live in MN. We had already started thinking about a trip over spring break to the Mall of America this year and planned on visiting a good blog/FB friend of mine that I still have never met, so these two might just be added into the mix!
In adoption news... my home study and approval should be arriving any day and I'm preparing my application for my I-600a to mail off as soon as possible! I had hoped it would be here today but no luck, so now I set my sights on tomorrow! :)
I'm a member of a facebook Haiti adoption group and there has been LOTS of movement in their adoptions recently. That is SUCH good news! Here's hoping the rest of our process goes smoothly and quickly!
Monday, July 16, 2012
Update!
This just in... finally some movement and information!
Heard just today that my home study has been approved by Illinois and was sent off in the mail on Friday!
Next steps... send it on to my adoption agency, then work on/finish my dossier!
Hooray!
Heard just today that my home study has been approved by Illinois and was sent off in the mail on Friday!
Next steps... send it on to my adoption agency, then work on/finish my dossier!
Hooray!
Saturday, July 14, 2012
FREE!
A bunch of new freebie offers posted over on the Little Did I Know Facebook page today!!! If you have kids especially, check it out! Don't forget to "like" the page while you're there! Once we get to 100 likes there will be a giveaway! :)
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