Merry Christmas!!!!

And what a wonderful Christmas indeed! We are so fortunate to be awarded a grant from Gift of Adoption for $5,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am still in happy shock!!!!!
At this point, I now will have enough money to go and bring Garrett home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I feel absolutely blessed to have received such incredible support in our adoption journey over this past year, Garrett would not be about to start life with our family without the help that each one of you have given, either in the form of donation of funds towards the crazy amount of fees or in all of the positive thinking towards reaching this goal!  I am amazed.  And just thrilled to be closer to getting the call saying "come and get him now"!

Wishing you and your families a magical Christmas and holiday season with lots of love.

Wonderful News!

On Sunday night, I was preparing dinner.  I had felt a little discombobulated all day for some reason (my paintings I was working on for Christmas presents just weren't turning out), and since I didn't know who was calling, almost didn't answer the phone.  But for some reason, I just picked up, and was told my the Affording Adoption Foundation that I was being awarded $1,500!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This was one of the many grants to which I have applied-and the only one that has chosen us for a grant-  it was such a fantastic surprise and just MADE my Christmas!!!!!!!!  I am so thankful to have been given such a generous grant- Affording Adoption Foundation really DOES support us adopting parents!!!!!!! Now I know where my charity donations will be headed in the future (when I am done with all of this fundraising for Garrett!!)!  Keep up all of your good thoughts!  Another grant- from Gift of Adoption is being reviewed this week, and I am hoping that the committee will help us to reach our goal of bringing Garrett home!  All 20 of my fingers and toes are crossed and I am envisioning Garrett opening his Christmas gifts next year!!!!!!!!!!!! What fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yay!

I have a Log In Date of 12/2/11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That means that China officially has my paperwork- good news!