Here I Am: Boldly Believing!

Let me just say, that I have so much to say, that I don't know if I can say anything and make any sort of sense. See there, did I just prove my point? Deep cleansing breathe.... The yard sale. Not only did we have an amazing space that my wonderful boss arranged for me, not only did we have over 20 families donate their goodies, not only did we have people donate heaters, tables, racks, hangers, food, work, break down, clean up.... when it was all said and done we raised $5500.00 AND we had so much stuff left that we were able to pay it forward. Goodwill, Rescue Mission, Habitat, local community needs and again, I could go on. B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L.

We had some great pieces of furniture & house decor items that we took to a great store in Nashville off 8th Avenue called Remix Furniture. He was wonderful and so kind, he will sell the furniture and we still get half of the profits to put toward our adoption. The great blessing with that scenario... when a person comes to a yard sale they want to pay $2- for the fabulous print and at his store they will pay $40 and our adoption will still get 1/2.... Can''t wait to share the outcome on this one.

I am glad the sale is over. It was a labor of love and I would do it again in a heartbeat but man oh man, it was alot of work. So i am thankful to say by tomorrow evening the building will be cleaned up and cleared out. I however, will be at another building. A dear family, who holds a special place in our hearts have a huge consignment sale a few times a year. It is HUGE! She not only put a link about our adoption on her website, she requested I come and set up a table to sell our necklaces. Another Blessing! She has a lot of

traffic at her sale. Not only will it bring awareness to the Orphan crisis in the world, with every necklace purchased it brings us one step closer to having our son in our arms.

We have some friends & family walking this journey with us and selling necklaces for us. Our goal was to have 100 folks buy 1 necklace and sell 9 to their peeps. That would be 1000 necklaces, that would be $10,000- towards our adoption. I get a lump in my throat just thinking at the possibility of that. We have had several friends buy 10 for gifts, several sell 10 and several who say they are going to... and I have my mother n law who just got her 60th necklace today. How amazing is that!!!! thank you Kathy from the depths of my heart!!!

As I've said before, we know we can't change the world for every orphan, but we can change the world for one. Our son. If your sitting there thinking "how can I possibly help their fundraising efforts?", I say you might not be able to give us $30,000- but with every necklace sold... every t-shirt bought, (every yard sale item) the amount we have to raise gets smaller and smaller...

The PROOF... we started our fundraising kick off night on Jan. 17th... only 51 days ago. as of today we have $10,000.00. Thank you God! Thank you for stirring the hearts of others to our cause, thank you to everyone who answered the call. THANK YOU! Thank You! thank you.

My hope.... we will sell the 1000 necklaces in the next .... I know this is BOLD... 15 days. Why 15? 147 has so graciously given us more money for each necklace purchased in the next 2 weeks... so that $10,000 will be $15,000------ so PLEASE tell your friends about the necklace, share this site, be so BOLD you buy the 10 knowing you friends will buy them, if your a teacher-buy 1 and put it in your break room and take orders (that applies to any work site), if you attend a church share it with your ladies, daycare, if you know someone who owns a store... you get the idea. (share it on your facebook)

$25 Ugandan Magazine Necklace... one of a kind... change the life of a women in Uganda by providing an income, feed a child, and help bring our son home AND get a beautiful piece of jewelry.... Win! Win!

I pray tomorrow night between 4:00 - 7:00 I see you... I pray you buy 10, or send 10... check out the link for the location...

SUGAR BABIES LOCATION:
250 Country Village Dr., Smyrna, TN 37167
Corner of Hazelwood & Country Village Dr.- Behind Napa Auto Care