$ Tuesday's Tally $

We haven't done any fundraising this week, but our total has still increased by $100! See, that amazes me! We received two checks in the mail and someone brought money by our house. In some cases, these are people who know us personally and love our family, but some of the people who are giving so generously don't even know us! In all cases, it seems that people are giving because they love ADOPTION, which makes my heart sing!!!

I have to be honest - sometimes I feel a little funny being so open about the financial need of our adoption. It is humbling to ask other people for money, no matter how you cut it. But, we have also been on the other side of adoption fundraising. It has been a blessing to give money for adoption and we appreciated those opportunities. In those cases, it was as if God was designating His money (that He has given to us) for that purpose. When I look at it this way, I have no problem at all. We are just so grateful that other people feel the same way!

Anyhoo.....I mentioned last week that we have a fundraising project coming up November 13th that I'm really excited about. We will be holding mini photo sessions with a couple of AWESOME photographers from the area. For $50 you can have your family's photo taken and will receive an edited jpeg image of the best photo. You can use this jpeg for your Christmas cards, gifts, etc. Just imagine the possibilities!! Sign up information is coming soon.

Also, our family has been selected to be featured in an online magazine article with sixseeds.org for the month of November! This is another FANTASTIC fundraising opportunity. Starting November 1st the article will be posted and open for comments. For every person who comments on our article SixSeeds will donate $2.00 to our adoption, up to $2500! We are so grateful for their generosity and support of adoption! And, their e-zine (online newsletter) has a lot of very cool, positive information for families. We will need everyone's help in passing the word so we can max out the entire $2500! Please stay tuned...

As I explained in our last Tuesday's Tally post, our fundraising goal is $13,500. Here's the grand total to date, with a little help from our kids....

That's $2331.50, in case you can't tell ; )