If you live in the Tidewater area and don't know what Shorebreak is, then I kinda feel sorry for you :) Seriously though, the people of Shorebreak have been friends of Justin's for longer than I even know and beyond supportive of our pending adoption. When they offered to do a cashola for us, we were ecstatic! If you're unsure of what it means to have a "cashola" you may just know it as a different name. TONIGHT Shorebreak is allowing us to come out and invite as many people as possible and they will contribute a portion of the sales to our tax-deductibe adoption fund provided by Lifesong for Orphans.
I know I've talked about funding transparency and how to raise to support and all kinds of things before. I also realize that a major part of this blog the last two months has been focused on the logistics of the money piece of adoption. Like everything else, adoption goes through phases...we just happen to be in the money phase. And it's not because the money is just now starting to be due...no, we've been making our payments all along. The reason money is on the forefront of my mind is because every other aspect of this process that we have any control over is done. We are in the midst of a waiting game. So at least by focusing on support raising, it gives us something to do while we wait to get matched with our son.
As far as fundraising goes, thus far, we have sent letters to our friends and family, we are selling t-shirts, and tonight is our cashola. Lifesong has graciously allowed us to keep our adoption fund growing through this process so people can still make donations along the way. There are still many t-shirts for sale, and we are excited about tonight! As broken down in our initial funding transparency post, our adoption will cost us a total of $25,000-35,000! Our personal payments thus far that we have worked to save and been given by our close family before fundraising add up to almost a third of our total. What we have raised thus far from our letters and t-shirts equal about a quarter of the total amount. With my skymiles from all my work travel, we will not have to purchase our international plane tickets which should account for $3000-4000. So we're over halfway there and we still have some work do to but we know we will get there!! We are still scrounging, sacrificing, and saving and with the cashola tonight, more t-shirt sales, some other possible fundraisers, and the continued donations of some amazing people we will get there.
So if you live in Tidewater and can come out to Shorebreak for dinner tonight, we'd love to see you there (it's very kid friendly)! And to everyone else, we are so beyond blessed by your thoughts, prayers, and donations. Your generosity overwhelms me and I am so excited to bring James home so he can meet all of you!!
I know I've talked about funding transparency and how to raise to support and all kinds of things before. I also realize that a major part of this blog the last two months has been focused on the logistics of the money piece of adoption. Like everything else, adoption goes through phases...we just happen to be in the money phase. And it's not because the money is just now starting to be due...no, we've been making our payments all along. The reason money is on the forefront of my mind is because every other aspect of this process that we have any control over is done. We are in the midst of a waiting game. So at least by focusing on support raising, it gives us something to do while we wait to get matched with our son.
As far as fundraising goes, thus far, we have sent letters to our friends and family, we are selling t-shirts, and tonight is our cashola. Lifesong has graciously allowed us to keep our adoption fund growing through this process so people can still make donations along the way. There are still many t-shirts for sale, and we are excited about tonight! As broken down in our initial funding transparency post, our adoption will cost us a total of $25,000-35,000! Our personal payments thus far that we have worked to save and been given by our close family before fundraising add up to almost a third of our total. What we have raised thus far from our letters and t-shirts equal about a quarter of the total amount. With my skymiles from all my work travel, we will not have to purchase our international plane tickets which should account for $3000-4000. So we're over halfway there and we still have some work do to but we know we will get there!! We are still scrounging, sacrificing, and saving and with the cashola tonight, more t-shirt sales, some other possible fundraisers, and the continued donations of some amazing people we will get there.
So if you live in Tidewater and can come out to Shorebreak for dinner tonight, we'd love to see you there (it's very kid friendly)! And to everyone else, we are so beyond blessed by your thoughts, prayers, and donations. Your generosity overwhelms me and I am so excited to bring James home so he can meet all of you!!
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