Like all big projects, it took more time than projected, but our Etsy shop is officially stocked and open for business! Please come visit us during our "Grand Opening" week, now through August 31!
If you would, please share the link below on Facebook. Your shares during our t-shirt fundraiser really made a difference! To celebrate the shop's opening, anyone who shares and orders between now and August 31 will be given the option of up-sizing one 5x7 inch print in their order to the 8x10 size, at no additional cost! *Please be sure you message or email me if you want to take advantage of that offer, so I know to contact you. Here is that link!
https://www.etsy.com/shop/LoveCrossingOceans
All prints hosted by this shop are reproduced from original pieces by artist, calligraphy pro, and "MaMere" to Vivi and her little brother or sister-to-be, Carol Lazar. This is a project first conceptualized during Vivi's adoption and developed over the past year. These pieces are specifically designated towards our adoption, and are each part of a signed and numbered print series. We hope you find something that brings you encouragement every day!
There is so much more I want to share about this shop, how it became at times a Bible study between mom and I...how these pieces came to be culled from the many pieces mom poured copious energy, time, and love into....how verses became prayers in our life not only concerning earthly adoption, but our own adoption as Christians and what that means- what it has to mean- for what we are made to do. Energizing and exhausting all at once! What a gift we have in my mom, and the technical savvy of my dad, who nailed down the production aspect!
Speaking of gifts, we have had a few amazing gifts made to our adoption savings, privately and through our AdoptTogether account. While I have been able to thank most of you privately, there was an anonymous gift made earlier this month, and I want to acknowledge it somehow! So, if you are reading this and you were involved in that, I don't even know what to say. How do you thank someone for that? "You helped us reach our child- our child- and bring them home- thank you." It just doesn't seem like enough. I have stared at a couple of blank thank you cards this month, trying to formulate a response that reflects the overwhelmed feeling that floods in when someone gives towards this adoption. It makes me feel like someone grabbed my hand and pulled me along just when my feet were growing tired. Walking right beside us. Incredible thankfulness. Please know whether you gave a large amount or an extra $5 when you purchased a shirt, we are profoundly grateful. We are also planning a way to honor those precious gifts as we get closer to traveling.
My heart and head have been multiplying thoughts I'd love to share with you, much faster than I can keep up, but I hope to post more soon....For now a small girl has decided my time here is up, and I couldn't agree more :-) On to play doh!
Monday, August 25, 2014
Thursday, August 7, 2014
August 1 LID!
It's true! We are LID! This means the dossier that was sent to China has been received buy the central authority for adoptions there and our dossier has been logged into the system. Our log in date (or LID) is August 1. LID marks the beginning of Mega-Step 2 of 3 on that overarching outline, Matching. That's right, matching! Our Log In Date, or LID, allows our agency to actively look to match a child with our family! From now on, movement only happens as a direct result of seeing our son or daughter's face for the first time! More another day, but I had to get that out there before I was officially a whole week late in sharing the news :-) Hey, an hour and 45 minutes to spare before it was technically week-old news, huh?
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