Matching Grant

We have been given a matching grant!!!

We have until tomorrow to meet it!

If you have considered donating, now is a great time - your money will be doubled!

Donations to our AdoptTogether account are tax deductible!!!

https://www.adopttogether.org/00633

Nativity Winner

Our Nativity Winner!!!

Thanks to all of you!!!

 

AdoptTogether - Crowd Funding!

Sammy's Vocab

Look, just look at ALL of these cards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Sammy has all of these words in his vocabulary!!!!

 

We are SO PROUD of HIM!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sammy has come so far with his language!

 

Nativity Fundraiser!!!!

We are having a flash fundraiser!!!

For a donation of $10.00 - you will receive a chance be given this beautiful Nativity Set, donated to us by a fellow adoptive family.

Look at all the cute things she makes!  My-Little-Sunshine-Montessori-Boutique

 

When we reach 20 donations, we will draw for the set. 

 

 

Donations can be made to our AdoptTogether account - just click the button below and you will be taken to our account. Be sure to leave a comment with your name, email and donation amount .

Horse Therapy - Local News Story!!

Our hippo therapy center was featured on our local Fox News Affiliate.

The Johnson kiddos were part of the story.  We receive a VERY GENEROUS scholarship to reduce the cost of therapy for us.  We were blessed to be part of this story.


If you are interested in learning more about the ranch or making a donation to them, their website is
pciranch.org - donations are tax deductible and benefit families like ours!





lessed to be part of

Puzzle

This is one of those moments when my heart is shredded. 

My eight year old son, being taught by his baby brother. 

Just over two years ago, Seth had no value - he was deemed a plant - unable to engage with the world around him. LIE!!!!!

Noah LOVES his brother. He wants to teach him. My sweet baby boy, playing with us brother. TRUTH!!!

The world will tell you adopting a child with special needs will ruin your other kids. LIE!!!

Life will show you how your typical children will accept and the be part of that child thriving!  TRUTH!!!!

Friday School!!!!

 

 

 

We are so thrilled to be back at school!!!

 

We love our Co-op - the leaders, the members, the church that gives their facility!

 

All working for the glory of God!

 

 

 

 

Reposting! Jewelry Fundraiser!

We would love to receive your "junk" precious metal jewelry and coins, as our next fundraiser to bring Trinity and Felicity home.


Do you have precious metal jewelry you have no use for? 

Broken chains?
Bent Rings?
Mismatched Earrings?

Gold, Silver, Platinum?

 We want them!

And all types of coins,  jewelry, silver flatware are acceptable!

 

 

If you are local friends, we can come pick it up or you can drop it off!

 

If you are far away, you can mail it to us!

 

Please email us at letsfillthevan (at) sbcglobal (dot) net

THE BOOK HOT MESS!!!

Remember these pictures from my last post?

 

 

 

 

 

We really have a lot of books and the kids love to read.  We do a terrible job getting the books back into the "correct" tubs.

 

 

A friend posted a link to a blog post about home library organization using Library Labels - it seemed like a great idea.  Use my current organizing system adding a color code to the books and bins.

 I'm surprised I made it through.  I really wanted to give up.  This project probably took 25 hours to get it to the point it is at now.  It was gruesome!  I was frozen as to how to label the general picture books .. the ones that are just twaddle reading ... In the end I called them either animal picture books or just picture books.  I wish I could have done better - but it hurt my brain.  LOL

 

 

  I started printing ...

 

     

 

 

 

 

The we started sorting and sorting and sorting and sorting

 

  

 

 

Then the labeling started

       

 

 

And onto the shelves ...

 

   

 

 

 Close up of the bin labels

  

 

 

 

Close up of bins in the cubbies  ... I really like this cubby system better than the bins, so I am pondering an Ikea Expedit Shelving Unit.  Craigslist stalking to begin! 

 

I told the kids if they really helped we would have banana splits.  We had them two nights in a row!