Tuesday, May 13, 2008

A big blessing from our friends in Roseville, CA



Yesterday Greg & I came home to a check for $500 in the mailbox to help us with adoption expenses!! Attached with it was a beautiful letter from our dear friend Annie, explaining how she was inspired by Oprah's (winfrey, of course)"Big Give" show & thought about who she'd like to help & our names came to her. She approached her mommy's group The Lady Bug n Baby Bug group & they rallied together, cleaned out their closets & had a 2 day fundraiser garage sale for us. Stacey from the Lady Bugs encouraged Annie to post the advertisements for the garage sale on Craigslist each day so it would stay on top. Annie said that people were really touched by our story & it was effortless to gather the garage sale items.

They also had a bake sale with the food being donated by neighbors Kimberly & Claudia. Thanks Kimberly & Claudia!!

We are so grateful to our Annie, the Lady Bugs & Baby Bugs, neighbors, friends & strangers & some Russians who came to the garage sale & shopped! How blessed you've made us feel - thank you so much! We know what it's like to have a garage sale (we've had 6 of them) how wonderful for you to have one for us!

2 comments:

Lori said...

NICE!

Anonymous said...

Isn't she an awesome friend! Annie always thinks of others. Your family is surrounded by many friends :)

Mindy