Fundraising News

    There’s a part of me that hesitates to get on this blog and say that things are happening. Somewhere in my mind I think that eventually this will become a “Boy Who Cried Wolf” situation. If you’re not familiar with that reference, then call your parents and demand to know why they never read to you as a child. After you’ve done that though, come back and finish reading this, because things really are happening!

      The biggest things happening this week are that we’ve set dates for 2 fundraisers. The first one will be a soup supper on February 23 at Westview Christian Church in Campbellsburg. While we’re still working out some of the details, here’s what I can tell you so far: there will be soup. Ok, I have a bit more information than that. This will be an “eat what you want, pay what you want” kind of thing, so if you have any rich friends, or people who just like to write huge checks for a bowl of soup, make sure you bring them with you. Brian Walton will also be speaking that night. If you don’t know Brian, he’s the senior pastor at Winchester, Kentucky’s Calvary Christian Church, Ashley’s step-brother (sort of….long story), and a generally awesome guy. You’ll like him. We’re still putting together times and getting a general feel on how things are going to go, so we’ll let you know more about this in the coming weeks.

       A soup supper is a normal, straightforward thing to do as a fundraising event. We hate normal. That’s why we’ve come up with our next fundraiser, “Can Our Yard Night.” How this works is pretty simple: you save aluminum cans up, wait until May 10, then come to our house and dump them in our yard. One of our friends called it, “vandalism with permission.” We’ll have an area in the side yard marked off (so we don’t get cans in the neighbor’s yard) and a spot for everyone to pull into the yard so nobody has to stop on the road, but other than that, you can toss the cans anywhere. We’ll have a lot more details on this one later, but we wanted to let everyone know so you can all start saving your cans. So start saving your cans and get prepared to trash our yard!

       So, in addition to getting ready for Christmas (only 15 more days!), this is what we’ve been working on this week. So go mark your calendars! We’re really looking forward to these events and hopefully you are too. They’re going to be a big step toward getting our child home, which is the most important thing, but it’s also going to be a great opportunity for us to get to spend time with all of you who have taken an interest in our adoption journey. We can’t wait to see all of you and thank you so much for all you’ve meant to us.