Look! I received this very generous shoe donation from the Pedi-Ped shoe company! All I did was email them and they sent me this large box of shoes to take with us to Ukraine! There are 60 pairs of shoes in the box...I am so grateful to be able to donate these beautiful shoes to the baby house! I have also been in touch with a clothing company and may be taking some nice, warm clothes to donate also!
It looks like we'll be submitting our Dossier in February, and travel should be shortly after. I just cannot wait to meet our son! I was a bit depressed about all of the delays we have been experiencing, and not having Tanner here with us for Christmas...but I have decided to let the Lord have it, and we know this will be done in His time, not ours.
I Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! I will be giving thanks to God for showing us the way to our son!
The shoes look great! Well done on getting them.
ReplyDeleteHugs it must be so hard all this waiting. You are all on my prayers
so cool!!!
ReplyDeletehope all your paperwork is done soon :)
Oh wow--those shoes are just amazing!!!
ReplyDeleteWe'll also be able to submit in Feb. I know the delays are so frustrating. Hang in there--you'll be on your way before you know it :)
That is wonderful... HOW COOL!
ReplyDeletePraying you move very quickly!!!
He will be home before my babies...
but at least there is a very good chance I will get to have our first trip in Jan.
I’m holding a $1 challenge over at www.findingkirilsfamily.blogspot.com, on the countdown to Christmas. Kiril is a little boy with significant special needs who has been waiting on Reece’s Rainbow for a long time, and has been bedridden in an institution for over 6 months now. My goal is to get as many people as possible to donate just ONE dollar to Kiril’s RR grant.
ReplyDeleteI’ve contacted many people about this already, in the hopes that they will SPREAD THE WORD, EVEN IF THEY CAN’T DONATE. To date, there’s been an amazing response, but Kiril’s path home is still far from sure. I know it is usually against the unwritten ‘rules’ to ask an adopting family for anything – and I can see why. But if you are part of a loving, supportive community, which might be inclined to help in spreading this message and saving this little boy's life, I humbly ask that you let them know about this fundraiser. I have great faith that together, we can give Kiril hope and a future THIS Christmas. Thank you.
Can you email me and let me know if there is a way we can have gifts sent over (an address to use?) Are you bringing the shoes on the airplane with you?
ReplyDeleteThe shoes will be greatly appreciated! We enjoyed being able to see the clothes being worn by some of the kids in Anastasia's group the same day we delivered them. Very personal knowing you at least helped the ones you can not save.
ReplyDeleteAwesome! We got a ton of these too when we went to Russia.
ReplyDeleteLisa ... we brought over tons of humanitarian aide with us when we went to Russia. We just packaged it all up in boxes, taped it up good and brought it to the baby home like that. It was awesome.
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