A week ago today, I typed and mailed a letter to local merchants telling them a little bit about our story and what our plans are for the dinner/auction this coming April. I prayed the whole time I was typing the letter, writing addresses on the envelopes and when I mailed them. I felt like I was putting myself on the line, exposing personal information to people that either I had met or not met but had never talked about our situation with. While I know some people will open the letters and toss them to the side or some might ask "why don't they just adopt through dhs"...these were hard realities that actually did happen this week. If you've read my previous blogs you know that at some point after we do private adoption we do plan to adopt through dhs. We believe that EVERY child deserves a loving stable home. I'm just not ready to take a chance of going through adoption when a few years down the road the parents decide to be parents and the child goes back to them. If that were to happen I'm not sure I'd be able to go through the adoption process again because of the pain and hurt. That is why we have chose to do private adoption first. Now that does not mean that we do not plan to try to adopt through dhs later down the road, because we do. On the bright side of some negativity, Daniel and I came home Friday evening to an envelope in the mail from a local merchant who received my letter. Inside the envelope was a hand written note and a check, plus they will be donating a gift box for our auction. Words cannot describe how grateful we were for this local merchant. It totally put a smile on my face, warmed my heart and had tears running down my face. God sure has perfect timing!
Dinner/Auction update
Within the last week we've had 10 items added to be auctioned off! Some of the items are from people whom we've never met! They heard about us through some of our friends and wanted to help. We talked with Daniel's sister and decided on the plans for the dinner. I'm so excited to start putting everything together for the event! Once we have the event I will post pictures and a list of items that were auctioned off for anyone who is interested in hosting a dinner/auction to help them with their needs. Again, I got this idea from pinterest,
dinner/auction idea.
Puzzle update week 3
We sold 38 puzzle pieces this week!! That's more than we sold in week 1! Almost half of them came from the check we received from the local merchant. Only 944 to go! :-) If you'd like to buy a puzzle piece you can either click the "Donate" button that is on the right sidebar under Wilks Adoption Fund or at the end of this blog. It will send your donation securely through PayPal. Please be sure to include your name so that we can add it to the puzzle piece! You can also donate cash in person if you wish or through the mail. We've also created a page on gofundme.com. This site was suggested to us to help spread the word. Our link is
here.
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Just the left side and the bottom have been completed.
This puzzle is harder to put together than we thought so we
have been working on putting more together and ready
to add names to the pieces! Anyone wanting to help put
it together is welcome to come over!! ;-) |
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Being lazy while mom and dad work on the puzzle in the nursery.
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