Giveaway Thursday

Hi all.....I hope you're having a great week! Have you decorated for fall yet? I need to buy some pumpkins for my porch! Maybe this weekend.

Thanks to all of you who have donated to the Campbells. They are grateful! Donating today?  Just click the big donate button on your left and it goes straight to their family. They are going to China soon to bring their daughter home from the orphanage.  A few hundred dollars would be a big help.

See these cuties?? They're ready for their sister to be home with them! The more, the merrier!

Want to learn more about attachment in adoption? Click here to read or listen about Creating A Family.


Remember to comment if you shared on Facebook/Twitter/your blog or if you donated. We'll draw a name to win this bag from 31 Gifts....

Super nice, huh?! It's the Organizing Utility Tote in Black Parisian Pop!


Also, if you haven't checked out Zoe Clothing yet,  give them a peek.  If you type in "garrick" at checkout, you'll be supporting my family's adoption.  They have cute clothes, lots of adoption shirts and other tees.

Interested in being a family on our blog? Email me at tonyagarrick5 at gmail dot com
Adopting? Leave us your blog link in comments so we can get to know you!

That's all for now! Remember to share/donate and comment for your chance in the drawing!

Shopping and Sharing (and a giveaway!)

Have you checked out Zoe Clothing Co yet?? If you buy an adoption tee or any other item, my family gets part of the profit towards our adoption! Yayyyy, Zoe Clothing Co! Just type in "garrick" when you check out. They have some super cute tee shirts--might I suggest them for a Christmas gift??

 

Who wants to win a 31 Gifts bag? Our mama this week is a consultant (check out her blog for more info on that)  and is giving away this Organizing Utility Tote in the Black Parisian Pop pattern.  Super nice!! Donate or share their story and leave me a comment that you did.  We'll draw Thursday night and let you know!

See the big donate button to the left? That's where you give your dollars for the Campbell family. (missed the post? read it here.) They are bringing home their 3rd daughter from China and are very appreciative of any gift you give. Already given? Thanks so much!!

I'm so happy to be a part of the adoption community. Lots of people doing a little goes a looong way. Share this post with your friends on Facebook and Twitter, like us on FB, too! We love new friends.

I hope you're having a great week!

Helping the Campbells Get to China

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed the Campbell's video yesterday.  Ready to donate?  Click the big donate button to the left to share your dollars with them. They are all appreciated. I would love for them to break $100 today!!  Okay? Give a little and share a lot! Facebook, Twitter and your blogs are our friends!

They are traveling very soon to bring their daughter home from China. Their family is more than ready to be together!

By the way....their sweet girl was on Reece's Rainbow. Check out that website for more info on adopting waiting children with special needs- it's awesome!

Thanks so much for your generosity! Feel free to grab a button for your blog, too:)

New Week--Meet the Campbell Family!

Hi, everyone! I hope you're having a great day.  I'm excited that we have a new family to feature this week.  I hope you enjoy watching their video and getting to know the Campbell family. They are from the South, so we have a connection already...sweet tea and southern drawls!
The Campbells  are adopting a little girl from China and will bring her home very soon. She will join her 2 sisters, mama and daddy at home and she also has a few adult brothers and sisters, too!

Click here to take a look at their sweet family's video.... Billy's the Dad and Angela's the Mama.

Okay, so here's how it works. You donate a dollar and share this page on your Facebook, Twitter and blogs and then those people donate a dollar, so on and so on. Easy, peasy!

Thank you for helping the Campbells out this week. They are traveling very soon and will appreciate every dollar given!

You can take a look at Angela's blog, too, and follow their journey there:) Thanks for donating and have a great week!

The Lewis' Update

Good Monday morning:) It's a beautiful, rainy day here! It's sleeping in and drinking coffee all day weather!
If you're new here, scroll down for older articles and check out the other Give1 Save1 pages, too. (click the "back to the map" button)

 Have you donated to the Lewis' travel fund yet?  They leave tomorrow!!
Here's today's blog link from Jenna....


Aren't they a cute family??

I can't wait to see the updated family picture after Joy comes home!
You can click the big donate button to the side or give on her personal blog. As of Sunday morning, we have given around $120.  THANK YOU SO MUCH!  They still need close to $1000 to finish paying for tickets.

Have a great day, everyone! Drink a cup of coffee for me--with lots of creamer!

The Lewis' Are Traveling!

Hi there! We want to have a weekend dollar giving frenzy for the Lewis family! Remember them? You can read about them here. They are finally able to travel to the Philippines to get their daughter, Joy!! I'll let you read an update from Jenna (Mom)...


I’m not going to lie. The last few weeks have been stressful, agonizing and frustrating. We have been
almost at the crux of our adoption journey and one thing after another seems to have put a delay on
our travel approval. Yesterday, we FINALLY received the long-awaited phone call saying we could fly to
the Philippines to bring our daughter home! Oh, what joy filled my soul…UNTIL…we saw the plane ticket prices had skyrocketed basically overnight. We jumped on the cheapest tickets we could find with a decent schedule and thought we were good to go. American Airlines told us they would hold Joy’s one way ticket, but that we needed to call the Philippines office when it opened and actually pay for it and get it ticketed through. No problem, right? WRONG! After a long wait on hold at 8:30 PM (8:30 AM in
the Philippines), we found out the hard way that American Airlines has some crazy law in the Philippines where they cannot book a minor’s one way ticket out of the country! So…this morning we cancelled our tickets (thanks to the rule you can cancel within 24 hours without penalty!) and re-booked our flights with an agent’s help on Delta. The cost was quite a bit more than we had budgeted for our tickets.

Thankfully, money is not everything! I am sure it will be totally worth it in just a few days when we bring our little girl home and we hear her call us Mommy and Daddy for the very first time! I am sure every dollar we have spent and every agonizing hour of waiting we have endured will be worth it all when we see the smile on our daughter’s face. I cannot wait to see the miracles that will take place through this adoption and the way we can be Jesus to our new little girl!

If you would like to help us out with the cost of our plane tickets, hotel rooms or other expenses, you
can donate here! Every dollar makes a HUGE difference! Thank you so much!

Alright, folks.....let's help the Lewis family get those tickets paid for so they can focus on packing and getting ready to go pick up their little girl!  Ready to give your dollars?? I thought so:)  Thanks, y'all!

Update: moving past $120 as of Sunday morning...thanks!!

Thank You (and you and you, too!)

Hi there! It's almost Wednesday, have you given to the family of the week? Africa's page has a very fun family you can support. They will definitely appreciate your dollars!

Sooo, I've been obsessing lately about all of the waiting children out there. Waiting for their families.  It can be pretty overwhelming, but if we share their stories, then their families may see them and bring them home, right? Here's a Reece's Rainbow waiting child link and the Holt International link. Take a peek and share.  (thanks, y'all!)  A lot of the RR children have funds set up to help their families bring them home. Since we don't have a family this week, maybe you can spare a few dollars over there?

Thanks for visiting. Thank you for your generosity and thank you for loving adoption.

 If you're interested in being a family of the week, you can find me at tonyagarrick5 at gmail dot com.