Snow.....??? We live in Tennessee.... Did someone say snow??? Yes, it did snow and it has finally melted. We made it through it without too many problems. Schools were out for 3 days, but they are now back. Alyssa really loves the snow!!! She tries to catch the snow flakes in her mouth, and she loves to try to make snow balls. We did not have snow at Christmas, but we had the most amazing Christmas!!!
Alyssa asked Santa for a car..... Yes, you heard me right, a car!!! And he filled her wish.... A red Ford Mustang convertible!!!! She must have been a really good girl because she did rather well on Christmas morning. It was really fun for Wade and I to watch her face as she opened the gifts. This child is the light of our lives. Everyday is a new adventure. She is really starting to talk, and you can actually hold a conversation with her!!! One of the funniest things that we have heard her say was at Christmas. We were teaching her about the real meaning of Christmas, and birth of baby Jesus. To hear her say baby Jesus is so funny!!!!
She pronounces baby Jesus as "baby Jeee" and Joseph as "Joanie". It sounds like she is talking about a rap group or something..."baby Jeee and Joanie". She makes us laugh everyday. Yes, having a 2 year old in the house is fun, exhausting, and trying, and yet these are the best days of our lives!!!
To bring you up to speed also on the future plans for our family.... We have decided that we are going to pursue another adoption!!!! What I can tell you now is that we are contacting America World Adoptions again about starting the process again. Depending on the answers we get from them on a couple of questions, we intend on starting the process again this year. We are in the process right now of trying to come up with some ways to raise money!!! One thing that we are going to do is start to ask for people's donations for our adoption on our blog. There is a donation button on the right that you can donate through Paypal!!! We have also decided that we are going to have an all out fundraising campaign starting in the Spring through Fall. We are going to have a yard sale every other Saturday starting in March!!! We are going to put an add in the newspaper asking for donations for our sale. You can either call us and we will pick up the items, or you can drop them off at our house. We will have the sale twice per month until the Fall. We know that other adoptive families have had a really good outcome with their fundraising efforts doing yard sales. We will not be pricing anything at the sales. We will only be taking reasonable donations for the items that you would like to buy!!!! At every yard sale we will have newly collected items, and we intend also to be selling baked goods!!! I am also coming up with a couple of other ideas about making some Russian items to sell. It seems like that when I would try to find some little things for our Russian adoption, they were hard to come by. I can find all kinds of things for adoptive families that are adopting from China. So I will let you all know soon what our plans will be with that!!!! We also still have a few cookbooks left for sale from our first adoption. Please let me know if you would like to purchase those as well!!!
Well, I guess I will go for now. Keeping up with this blog is sometimes extremely hard, but I do know that we still have many, many followers, so I will try my best to keep you all informed of our next adoption journey!!!!
Blessings,
Julie
