Help us bring baby Phillips Raegan home to his Forever Family by attending our Decor and Accesory Swap Party on Friday, October 16th. It's going to be a great night of swapping, laughter, and yummies! Many of my girlfriends have volunteered to bring tables over and decorate them for the BIG event. Social at 6:30pm, swap begins at 7:30pm.
What is a swap? This swap has three categories.
1. Home Decor - dishes, lamps, pictures, clocks, art, new candles, baskets, frames,
2. Accesories - purses, wallets, jewelry, scarves, belts, bags, gloves, etc.
3. Fall/Winter Decor - any seasonal items for Halloween, Thanksgiving or Christmas.
10 clean and gently used items would be appreciated (more than 10 items are certainly welcome as well.
Items can be dropped off within a week prior to the party.
All participating swappers will draw a number for the order of swapping and have a limited amount of time to retrieve an item - you may choose 1 item per round.
Once you've collected all the items you want, your number will be dropped from the rotation and the swap will continue until everyone is done.
You may want to bring a tote to help carry home your new stuff!!!
So clean out those closets, attics, and basements - eat, drink, meet new friends and shop! What more could a girl want??
Cost : $20 to attend with all proceeds going to adoption fees.
Can't attend by want to support our adoption? You could drop off a dessert, appetizer, or sodas before the event or drop off swap items throughout the week.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Missing Phillips
I don't know how you can miss a baby that you haven't even met, but maybe other mother's who have adopted have had this same experience. Today when we were having storytime we were reading a book from the Library about welcoming a new baby into a family. I talked with the boys and asked them how they are feeling about having a new baby in the house. I think it's great to have open conversations with the boys about adoption. We want Phillips to always know the truth and plan on being very open with him about his adoption story. I can't wait to have him acting out the parts in the story with his brothers.
I finished the first two pages of his scrapbook. The older boys both have "baby" scrapbooks from birth through age 2. Phillips will have a "baby" scrapbook as well - it will just look a little different. We don't have the luxury of having hundreds of pictures to sort through - the 4 that we currently have are like gold to us. I know that we will take tons of pictures when we are in China.
On another note, we are so blessed to be mentoring and leading a discipliship group of teenagers in Jackson County. I don't think that Jeremiah or I could have ever imagined that God would choose us to mentor teenage boys, but it has been a huge blessing in our lives and we are so fulfilled by sharing life with them. We have 6 junior and senior boys in our group - and another 3 highschool boys that we are mentoring. Today we had 4 of the boys over. They are very close to our hearts - they from a very large family with 22 children! They are amazing young men and their parents have done an outstanding job raising them. I have never in my life met highschool students with such great manners, respect, and love. These boys also know Jesus as their savior and work very hard in school. We love you!! Thank you Jesus for allowing us to share your love with these special young men.
I finished the first two pages of his scrapbook. The older boys both have "baby" scrapbooks from birth through age 2. Phillips will have a "baby" scrapbook as well - it will just look a little different. We don't have the luxury of having hundreds of pictures to sort through - the 4 that we currently have are like gold to us. I know that we will take tons of pictures when we are in China.
On another note, we are so blessed to be mentoring and leading a discipliship group of teenagers in Jackson County. I don't think that Jeremiah or I could have ever imagined that God would choose us to mentor teenage boys, but it has been a huge blessing in our lives and we are so fulfilled by sharing life with them. We have 6 junior and senior boys in our group - and another 3 highschool boys that we are mentoring. Today we had 4 of the boys over. They are very close to our hearts - they from a very large family with 22 children! They are amazing young men and their parents have done an outstanding job raising them. I have never in my life met highschool students with such great manners, respect, and love. These boys also know Jesus as their savior and work very hard in school. We love you!! Thank you Jesus for allowing us to share your love with these special young men.
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