During September, the Jeffrey family sold pieces of our keepsake Puzzle to raise money for our international adoption. For every piece sold, we entered the donors once. Tonight the girls and I held the very official drawing (after negotiating who could do the actual drawing out of the bowl).
We have a winner!!!!!!!!!
We have a winner!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations go to Mrs. Dee S. who won this little beauty from Noonday Collection. It is in the mail you, my friend!
Our fundraising efforts so far have earned us $1775.00.
In addition, we have managed to save an additional $1000.00. And we already paid for the home study, one round of fingerprinting, the doctor visits, and with the help of our mother in law we have our passports lined up. All total we have $2775.00 in the bank and have already paid $1400 towards previous adoption related expenses. We have accounted for $4175.00 of the $25,000.00 estimated for the cost for the adoption.
I'm no math wiz but that's about 1/6 of the way there. Not bad, I say.
Our family has committed to no dinners out, no fast food, no dry cleaning (as if...), no date nights (again, haha). We also renegotiated our cable and tv contract as well as our car and home insurance. And Layne, bless her heart, gave up a big birthday party out and instead had a few good friends over to the house to watch a movie, eat pizza and decorate cupcakes. Jack keeps coming to me with 'gifts' to sell for the adoption. It's heartbreaking and heartwarming all at the same time. His 'gifts' are scraps of paper with little drawings he did and perhaps a stray staple he managed to sneak on the paper or a small stray toy he found that he thought had great monetary value. We have no credit cards and both trucks are paid off. Amy is working overtime to earn a little extra here and there and in the words of Frankie, the mom from The Middle, "We're getting ahead of it!" The efforts are paying off.
Thank you to everybody who has contributed to help bring a little boy home to a loving family.
