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June 12, 2008May 23, 2014

Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for all the organizations that seek to help orphans have a better life and find new homes. There are boatloads I could list, like Half the Sky, Love Without Boundaries, and World Vision with the AIDS orphans, but today I want to encourage you to make a plan to hit Wendy’s this weekend for a Frosty! On the 14th and 15th in honor of Father’s Day, they are giving .50 of each Frosty sale to the Dave Thomas Foundation to help the fatherless find families. Read about them here: http://www.davethomasfoundation.org/

So that’s right people – I am telling you to go eat some fattening and yummy Frosties this weekend (you could try one of the new Frosty Shakes). It’s for the children! *wink* Their goal is to raise $1.3 million to help children who are available for adoption in the foster system to find homes. (Just so you know, not all children in the foster system are available for adoption)

And here are a few more “I Saw Green” photos for this week.

Alligator egg

Fridge Farm

June 10, 2008May 23, 2014

New Day Foster Home Video

Next week our church will be doing an Olympic themed Vacation Bible School. Each year they do a fundraiser for a specific charity that benefits children. Last year the children raised money for a street children’s ministry in India that our church funds. We told the staff all about our visit to New Day Foster Home in Beijing back in March. So this years fundraiser is going to be a contest. The girls will be bringing money for the children of New Day Foster Home and the boys will be bringing money for the persecuted church around the globe.

So each day I am going to give a 5 minute presentation about New Day to the girls. I am going to make a 3 minute video for each day and then talk to the kids for 2 minutes. Here is the first video.

June 9, 2008May 23, 2014

Green Week

shadesofinspiration

The “I Saw Red” was such a big hit that she has decided to keep it going. This is truly the beauty of digital because you don’t have to print the photos. You can take the photos just for the sheer joy of it. And hit delete if they aren’t what you expected.

This week’s color is Green and I see trees in my future since it’s pretty much been a focus for us lately as we are finally doing something with our lawn. 🙂 But I do think I am going to have to think harder for green since Red is such a part of my daily life. Feel free to join in on your blogs.

The smile is another item from Nadia’s wall. We often have real frogs on our porch, but today it was Nadia’s stuffed guy.

From Nadia's room Nadia's frog

June 8, 2008May 23, 2014

I Saw Red

I decided to take part in a project another blogger was doing called “I Saw Red”. The goal was to take photos of things that you saw over the course of the week of June 2-8th. The woman who organized the whole event placed a link to all the blogs on her site. Some bloggers posted everyday, but I chose to wait and do them as one post. Several times this week I wished I had my camera with me in the car, so if she decides to do it again, I am going to cart my camera around with me all week. So here goes:

Mike’s truck that he has had since he was 9 months old (the same age as Nadia when she came to us). Now Nadia plays with it.