We are excited to have raised $30 from our AVON fundraiser. Thank you Ashton Gilbert for organizing the fundraiser and everyone that ordered.
Over the last few days, we have been blessed with donations to our adoption fund. We received a $100 donation through our Lifesong for Orphans account. We were handed $20 from a sweet lady from church. Today, we received a $5 donation from a sweet friend.
We have also sold many more cookbooks through personal orders and also Hendersonville Produce. Thank you to everyone that has purchased a cookbook!!!
We will be having an Origami Owl and Scentsy Open House Fundraiser next Tuesday, November 13th. If you would like to attend or place an order, please contact me at 615-289-6178 or karlamtaylor@hotmail.com. They are GREAT Christmas gifts!!!!
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Friday, November 2, 2012
Our LID - Log in Date - in China is 10/26/12
Praise God!!! We have a LID (Log in Date)...it is October 26, 2012. This is the date that China approved and logged in our paperwork.
So what does this mean? It means that we are now able to receive a referral.
What is a referral? A referral is when our agency sends us a picture and file of a little girl that matches our requests/guidelines from our application (minor/moderate special needs)...ages, etc.
Starting in November we are elgible to receive a referral from the shared list. A shared list is the new released children elgible for adoption that have special needs. Our agency will match us with a child and send us an email. This process could take one month to several months. It depends on how many other families are in front of us that are requesting the same guidelines.
After we are matched, we will travel to China to get her within 3 - 6 months.
Please pray that we are matched with the exact little girl God wants us to have for our family. Please pray for Melanie and her safety, shelter, food and needs to be met while we wait for our chance to go get her.
Please also pray for the remaining $11,000 to come in for expences. We are selling adoption cookbooks for $10 and will have one more fundraiser before the end of the year. The other fundraiser will be Nov. 13th. It is an open house for Oragami Owl and Scentsy. If you would like to place an order please email me at karlamtaylor@hotmail.com.
If you are looking for a way to help your 2012 taxes, you can make a tax deductible donation to our fundraising fund with Lifesong for Orphans. It is a way to help your taxes and bring Melanie home. If you are interested please see details below or email me at karlamtaylor@hotmail.com.
Lifesongfororphans.org
Click Give
Click Give a donation
There are options to send a check, pay via credit card, pay via paypal (paypal includes fees).
Please include our family number so that our adoption fund gets the credit. Our family number is: "Taylor/2866".
You can give anonymously or with your name.
Thank you!!!
So what does this mean? It means that we are now able to receive a referral.
What is a referral? A referral is when our agency sends us a picture and file of a little girl that matches our requests/guidelines from our application (minor/moderate special needs)...ages, etc.
Starting in November we are elgible to receive a referral from the shared list. A shared list is the new released children elgible for adoption that have special needs. Our agency will match us with a child and send us an email. This process could take one month to several months. It depends on how many other families are in front of us that are requesting the same guidelines.
After we are matched, we will travel to China to get her within 3 - 6 months.
Please pray that we are matched with the exact little girl God wants us to have for our family. Please pray for Melanie and her safety, shelter, food and needs to be met while we wait for our chance to go get her.
Please also pray for the remaining $11,000 to come in for expences. We are selling adoption cookbooks for $10 and will have one more fundraiser before the end of the year. The other fundraiser will be Nov. 13th. It is an open house for Oragami Owl and Scentsy. If you would like to place an order please email me at karlamtaylor@hotmail.com.
If you are looking for a way to help your 2012 taxes, you can make a tax deductible donation to our fundraising fund with Lifesong for Orphans. It is a way to help your taxes and bring Melanie home. If you are interested please see details below or email me at karlamtaylor@hotmail.com.
Lifesongfororphans.org
Click Give
Click Give a donation
There are options to send a check, pay via credit card, pay via paypal (paypal includes fees).
Please include our family number so that our adoption fund gets the credit. Our family number is: "Taylor/2866".
You can give anonymously or with your name.
Thank you!!!
Friday, October 19, 2012
Our DTC (Date To China) is Oct. 19, 2012!!!
Great news! Jason's birth certificate was authenticated. So that means our entire Dossier was authenticated in the US before the deadline!!!!! Our Dossier was sent to China today!!!!!!! This means that China will receive our Dossier on Monday, October 19, 2012! Praise God!!! Please God put your hand of protection on our Dossier. We pray that all the documents go where they need to go and things go smoothly with receiving our LID (Log In Date). We could start seeing a shared list as of November!!!! Can you imagine...we may be able to see our little Melanie's picture before Christmas. What an awesome Christmas present. Cohen may not be able to get his Christmas gift to see his sister in person, however, he may be able to see her face!
We had our Discovery Toy fundraiser last night. It was a great time and was able to raise $72 for our adoption fund!! Thank you Lee Anne Young for hosting our party!!! Thank you for everyone that placed an order.
Today, we received two donations from sweet family friends. Each donation was $100 for a total of $200. Thank you!!!
We sold 10 cookbooks in the last two days!
Our neighborhood is having a community yard sale tomorrow. Four of our neighbors rented clothing racks. This raised $60 for our adoption!
I also sold some items on Girlfriends Trading Post this evening for our adoption!!!
In the last two days, our adoption fund raised $457!!!!! Thank you Jehovah Jirah!
We had our Discovery Toy fundraiser last night. It was a great time and was able to raise $72 for our adoption fund!! Thank you Lee Anne Young for hosting our party!!! Thank you for everyone that placed an order.
Today, we received two donations from sweet family friends. Each donation was $100 for a total of $200. Thank you!!!
We sold 10 cookbooks in the last two days!
Our neighborhood is having a community yard sale tomorrow. Four of our neighbors rented clothing racks. This raised $60 for our adoption!
I also sold some items on Girlfriends Trading Post this evening for our adoption!!!
In the last two days, our adoption fund raised $457!!!!! Thank you Jehovah Jirah!
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Cookbooks at Hendersonville Produce!
Today, I was able to sell our adoption cookbook at Hendersonville Produce during CSA pick-up hours. Thank you Regina Gammon!!!! In just three hours, I sold 12 cookbooks!
During my time there, I was able to meet many great people and see some familar faces. I received many words of encouragement and luck. Through this adoption adventure, I have learned that the adoption world really is so small. Today, I was so encouraged by the adoption stories that I heard from those families that had also adopted. Some had grown children they had adopted many years ago while some had recently adopted within the last seven years. I felt blessed when a mom showed me the picture of her little girl from China that she had adopted back in 2005. Then there was this little girl that touched my heart. As she approached my table, while her parents picked up their CSA, she asked what I was doing. I told her that I was selling cookbooks to raise money for our adoption and that we were adopting a little girl from China. With excitement in her eyes and joy on her face she said, "I was adopted from China". Oh the day when someone can look my own daughter in the eye and she can say those same words...."I was adopted from China". I thank that little girl for the encouragement she she gave me today. As I sat there and had a conversation with her for those few minutes, she gave me encouragement to keep pressing on so that one day I can look my Melanie in the face and say welcome home! Thank you Lord for the encouragement and support you sent me today!
During my time there, I was able to meet many great people and see some familar faces. I received many words of encouragement and luck. Through this adoption adventure, I have learned that the adoption world really is so small. Today, I was so encouraged by the adoption stories that I heard from those families that had also adopted. Some had grown children they had adopted many years ago while some had recently adopted within the last seven years. I felt blessed when a mom showed me the picture of her little girl from China that she had adopted back in 2005. Then there was this little girl that touched my heart. As she approached my table, while her parents picked up their CSA, she asked what I was doing. I told her that I was selling cookbooks to raise money for our adoption and that we were adopting a little girl from China. With excitement in her eyes and joy on her face she said, "I was adopted from China". Oh the day when someone can look my own daughter in the eye and she can say those same words...."I was adopted from China". I thank that little girl for the encouragement she she gave me today. As I sat there and had a conversation with her for those few minutes, she gave me encouragement to keep pressing on so that one day I can look my Melanie in the face and say welcome home! Thank you Lord for the encouragement and support you sent me today!
Sunday, October 14, 2012
We sold the door!
Praise God we sold the door!!! Our sweet friend Vivian Miller donated her beautiful solid wood door with side lights and transon to us to sell for our adoption fund. Today, we sold the door unit for $600! Thank you Vivian for your generous donation! Thank you Jehovah Jirah for bringing us Mike and selling the door!
This weekend we sold a total of 24 cookbooks! Praise God!
This weekend we sold a total of 24 cookbooks! Praise God!
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Adoption Cookbooks have arrived! Dossier paperwork update...
The Adoption Cookbooks have arrived (three weeks early)! Thank you G&R Publishing!
The cookbooks are filled with 250 awesome family recipes...some even from secret family recipe vaults. They also include our adoption story and why we are naming our little girl Melanie. Linda Stacy, Melanie Stacy's mom, was so kind to send Melanie's favorite recipe and a hand written recipe from Melanie. These are included in the cookbook. In the back of the cookbook, you can find kitchen craft projects for kids. Our dear friend, Leanna Baker, designed the cover! You do not want to miss out on this cookbook.
The cookbooks are $10 if ordered through us. Please email us at karlamtaylor@hotmail.com if you would like to place an order. Put cookbook order in the subject line.
So far we have sold 30 cookbooks and many more orders to fill next week! Get yours before they are gone. They are great for Christmas gifts...for family, friends, co-workers, and teachers.
Our consignment sale is still for sale. Since our last post, we have rented our racks to four people for their yard sales. We have three more people renting them next week! This will have brought $105 for our adoption fund!!
Our Dossier...
As of today, we are only waiting on one document to be authenticated in NYC. Once our agency receives this document, they will send the entire Dossier to China. Once China receives the Dossier, we can start receiving referrals within three weeks! We are so excited to finally see a picture of our little Melanie that God has picked out for us.
Current Fundraisers...
AVON - our AVON fundraiser will conclude this coming Monday, Oct. 15th. 40% of the products sold will go to our adoption.
Discovery Toys - our Discovery Toys fundraiser is going on right now with a party at our home to show the products on Thursday, Oct. 18th at 6:30. We will close the fundraiser on Friday, Oct. 19th.
Scentsy - Our Scentsy fundraiser will start in November.
Adoption cookbooks - $10 each
Clothing Rack rental - $15 each
Prayer...
Please continue to pray for our family during our adoption process. Pray that God has His hand on our Dossier paperwork and gets it where it needs to go with no complications. Pray for Melanie...for her safety, her health, and those that are taking care of her. Pray for our adoption finances. God has been our Jehovah Jirah in providing $17,500 of our needs so far. we are still needing approximately $13,000 more to complete the entire adoption process.
The cookbooks are filled with 250 awesome family recipes...some even from secret family recipe vaults. They also include our adoption story and why we are naming our little girl Melanie. Linda Stacy, Melanie Stacy's mom, was so kind to send Melanie's favorite recipe and a hand written recipe from Melanie. These are included in the cookbook. In the back of the cookbook, you can find kitchen craft projects for kids. Our dear friend, Leanna Baker, designed the cover! You do not want to miss out on this cookbook.
The cookbooks are $10 if ordered through us. Please email us at karlamtaylor@hotmail.com if you would like to place an order. Put cookbook order in the subject line.
So far we have sold 30 cookbooks and many more orders to fill next week! Get yours before they are gone. They are great for Christmas gifts...for family, friends, co-workers, and teachers.
Our consignment sale is still for sale. Since our last post, we have rented our racks to four people for their yard sales. We have three more people renting them next week! This will have brought $105 for our adoption fund!!
Our Dossier...
As of today, we are only waiting on one document to be authenticated in NYC. Once our agency receives this document, they will send the entire Dossier to China. Once China receives the Dossier, we can start receiving referrals within three weeks! We are so excited to finally see a picture of our little Melanie that God has picked out for us.
Current Fundraisers...
AVON - our AVON fundraiser will conclude this coming Monday, Oct. 15th. 40% of the products sold will go to our adoption.
Discovery Toys - our Discovery Toys fundraiser is going on right now with a party at our home to show the products on Thursday, Oct. 18th at 6:30. We will close the fundraiser on Friday, Oct. 19th.
Scentsy - Our Scentsy fundraiser will start in November.
Adoption cookbooks - $10 each
Clothing Rack rental - $15 each
Prayer...
Please continue to pray for our family during our adoption process. Pray that God has His hand on our Dossier paperwork and gets it where it needs to go with no complications. Pray for Melanie...for her safety, her health, and those that are taking care of her. Pray for our adoption finances. God has been our Jehovah Jirah in providing $17,500 of our needs so far. we are still needing approximately $13,000 more to complete the entire adoption process.
Monday, October 1, 2012
Fundraising Results - Pampered Chef and our Dossier
Great news! We received our fundrising amount for our Pampered Chef fundraiser that took place over the last couple weeks. We raised $210!!! Thank you to everyone that placed orders!!! Thank you to Jennifer Miller that hosted a fundraising party. Thank you to Olivia Ogle for doing both fundraising parties! Thank you Lord for providing!!!!
Well one of our deadlines for our Dossier to get to China is this week! Please pray that our paperwork gets to China this week and gets that date stamp!!!!!
This week will conclude our AVON fundraiser! If you need AVON let me know!
I just found out that our adoption cookbooks will be arriving next week!!!
Our last adoption grant application was mailed last week! Please pray that we get approved!!!
Thank you for everyone's support, encouragement, and prayers! Thank you Lord for providing - Jehovah Jirah!
Well one of our deadlines for our Dossier to get to China is this week! Please pray that our paperwork gets to China this week and gets that date stamp!!!!!
This week will conclude our AVON fundraiser! If you need AVON let me know!
I just found out that our adoption cookbooks will be arriving next week!!!
Our last adoption grant application was mailed last week! Please pray that we get approved!!!
Thank you for everyone's support, encouragement, and prayers! Thank you Lord for providing - Jehovah Jirah!
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