Fundraising Finale

Pam ~ We are still a couple thousand dollars short of what we are estimating that we will need for all of our travel expenses, so we still have a few fundraisers that you can participate in to help with our expenses. We are nearing the end of this long journey to our daughter!!!!

Pampered Chef ~ This is only an option until 9 p.m. (CST) tonight!!!! Go to www.PamperedChef.biz/DrucksKitchen and click on "shop online". Enter "Maxwell" for the first name and "Adoption" for the last name. We will receive 15% of your order to put toward our adoption travel expenses.

Soda Cans/Bottles ~ We are still accepting donations of your soda cans/bottles. We will recycle them and put the redemption money towards our travel expenses.

Photo Scanning ~ I will take your old photos and scan them onto a CD so that you have a digital copy of all your memories. Click HERE for more information.

Handmade Birthday Cards ~ We still have lots of special handmade birthday cards available for purchase. Click HERE for more information and for photos of the cards that are still available.

Just Love Coffee ~ We receive $5 for every bag of coffee purchased from our store. Click HERE to go to our Just Love Coffee store to buy some extra yummy coffee AND help us with our travel expenses!!!!

Fund-Raising Friday

Soda Cans ~ We are heading to the bank today to make our first deposit of soda can cash!!  We have now received $86.30 in soda can deposits and have decided to make our first deposit a little early.  WE LOVE SODA CANS!!!!!

Photo Scanning ~ We have completed 2 photo scanning orders and are now closing this fund-raiser {for now, at least}.  However, if you become interested in us scanning and archiving your photos, please contact us and we can arrange to do this for you at a later date.  Thanks!!!!!

Sponsor a Puzzle Piece ~ We now have 65 puzzle pieces sponsored and paid for!!!!  Praise the Lord!!!!!  Special Blessing: We received a note and check in the mail this week from a couple in NE who is also adopting two children from Ethiopia.  They have been following our blog and decided that they wanted to participate in sponsoring some puzzle pieces.  Our hearts were sooooooo very touched by their sacrifice in the midst of their own financial mountains!!!  Thank You!!!!!!!

Mary Kay Adoption Fund-Raiser Party ~ Pam's "Mary Kay" party is tomorrow morning and she is excited to see who will come.  A couple of people have already ordered a few items on-line {www.marykay.com/clistyporter} and we will be receiving those profits in a short while.  If you would like to still order, please visit the above site and simply make a note that it is for the "Maxwell Children."  Thanks!!!!!


New Goal ~ Our thermometer has been updated to show the progress towards our next financial goal.  The $830 should be what we need for the USCIS Fee, Update Fee & Fingerprinting.  What a blessing to see that it is already over half way filled up!!!!!  We are very hopeful {and prayerful!!!} that with all the over-time Nathan has gotten this past week, we will be able to meet this goal within the next two weeks {that's how long before he gets paid again!!}.

Fund-Raising Friday

Soda Cans ~ We are up to $76.45 in soda can money!!!!!!!!  We store this money in our "Tootsie Roll" jar and once we have $100 in the jar, we will go make a deposit!!!  We are getting closer so keep the cans/bottles coming!!!!!!!! 

Photo Scanning ~ We received another order on Monday!!!!!  The time-line for this fund-raiser is almost over {school starts for me in just a couple of weeks} so if you are interested, let us know ASAP.  It's 10 cents a photo and $1.50 for each CD needed to store them.

Sponsor a Puzzle Piece ~ Fourty-two puzzle pieces have been paid for, and we are waiting for payment on 17 more!!!!!  What a blessing it has been to see how many people are praying for us and encouraging us in our adoption journey!!!!!!  If you are interested in sponsoring a puzzle piece for $10, please contact us!!!!!

 Mary Kay Adoption Fund-raiser Party ~ Saturday, August 21st, at 9:30 a.m.  I haven't heard any definites yet on who will be able to come, so if you are planning to attend, please let me know ASAP.  You can send me an e-mail {hearts1982@gmail.com}, or check out my Facebook event page for more info.  If you are unable to attend, but would still like to order, please go to Clisty Porter's webpage {www.marykay.com/clistyporter}to order.  Just make a note that it is for the "Maxwell Children."

Thermometer ~ It's been RISING!!!!!  We are only about $250 away from our current goal!!!!!  God has been providing in His time and it's amazing to see how He is working!!!

I also wanted to mention that we have added an additional thermometer {God's Provision} at the bottom of the sidebar.  This thermometer will track our total adoption costs to date through our current financial goal.  Did I lose you????  The total at the top of the thermometer IS NOT the total needed for our adoption.  But it is the total that we have saved/spent/need thus far.  By the time we have saved/paid the $1475 we need for our post-adoption fees, we will have spent a total of $5,496 in adoption expenses {application fee-$250; passports-$230; 1st agency fee-$1,500; Hague training-$175; Home Study fee-$1,800; COIIS-$30; post-placement fees-$1475; home study travel fee-$36}.  This thermometer will track the total of what God has provided and show the difference between what has already been provided, and what we still need to meet our current goal.  I know that I just threw a whole bunch of numbers at you, but hopefully it makes a little bit of sense?????  This is just to remind us of how GREAT is God's provision!!!!!