We had the garage sale this past Friday and Saturday with amazing success. We raised an incredible $1800 and we still have a few big things left to be sold! There were so many people who donated items to us in the weeks leading up to the sale. The stuff filled our garage completely and even spilled over to our backyard. It was overwhelming, but every item brought us to our total, so in the end, definitely worth it!
We had great friends who donated their time sorting and pricing items in the week before the sale, which was awesome because I've learned that garage sales are not my thing! Then, Friday morning when we started pulling stuff out and setting up, we were surprised and overwhelmed by the people that showed up to help! All day Friday and Saturday we were surrounded by friends who weren't going to let us do this on our own.
We feel so blessed and so loved by this weekend. We are truly full to the brim!
We've been praying boldly about the financial aspect of the adoption. It's been something that hasn't made us feel stressed, but that we know needs to happen. We have received over $11,000 from donations on our Pure Charity website: https://purecharity.com/dorazioadoption Between that total and what Dan and I have put in, we have paid for everything we need to pay for to apply for the adoption! We still have 8,000 Euros to pay to the Bulgarian adoption agency, all our travel costs, and aftercare, but we are on our way!!! It's amazing!
Our t-shirt sales are also going well. Our goal is 100 shirts and we've sold 40 shirts already!! If you haven't gotten one yet, check it out: http://teespring.com/world-s-best-adoption-shirt Here's a close up picture of the design:
Our home study has been approved by the state of Colorado and now our paperwork has been sent to USCIS. Please pray that it will be dealt with in a timely manner and approved quickly. The government of Bulgaria shuts down for the month of August, so we probably won't get the dossier submitted before then, but hopefully everything will be dealt with right in the beginning of September. We want to get our son home soon!
Thanks for all your prayers, support, and financial contributions. We are so in awe of the way you have all invested in our son and our family in your own ways. It's filled us with peace and joy that we can't begin to describe.
We had great friends who donated their time sorting and pricing items in the week before the sale, which was awesome because I've learned that garage sales are not my thing! Then, Friday morning when we started pulling stuff out and setting up, we were surprised and overwhelmed by the people that showed up to help! All day Friday and Saturday we were surrounded by friends who weren't going to let us do this on our own.
We feel so blessed and so loved by this weekend. We are truly full to the brim!
We've been praying boldly about the financial aspect of the adoption. It's been something that hasn't made us feel stressed, but that we know needs to happen. We have received over $11,000 from donations on our Pure Charity website: https://purecharity.com/dorazioadoption Between that total and what Dan and I have put in, we have paid for everything we need to pay for to apply for the adoption! We still have 8,000 Euros to pay to the Bulgarian adoption agency, all our travel costs, and aftercare, but we are on our way!!! It's amazing!
Our t-shirt sales are also going well. Our goal is 100 shirts and we've sold 40 shirts already!! If you haven't gotten one yet, check it out: http://teespring.com/world-s-best-adoption-shirt Here's a close up picture of the design:
Our home study has been approved by the state of Colorado and now our paperwork has been sent to USCIS. Please pray that it will be dealt with in a timely manner and approved quickly. The government of Bulgaria shuts down for the month of August, so we probably won't get the dossier submitted before then, but hopefully everything will be dealt with right in the beginning of September. We want to get our son home soon!
Thanks for all your prayers, support, and financial contributions. We are so in awe of the way you have all invested in our son and our family in your own ways. It's filled us with peace and joy that we can't begin to describe.
