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Some kids put pillows in their shirts. Mine prepare dossiers!

In November, we raised $1160 for Morgan's grant fund with your help. AMAZING! But, with a month remaining for Reece's Rainbow's Angel Tree , we wondered if there was more that we could do for our sweet Christmas angel. Last week I sat down with my little "Board of Directors" and we decided that we would sell Christmas goodies on Morgan's behalf. We determined what goodies we would make and sell and then we got to work. We made fliers and order forms that we handed out to friends and family so that they could help us in our efforts and we gathered our supplies. My mom is an Intervention Specialist and AP History teacher at a local Catholic High School. On Monday, she went to work, armed with our fliers and order forms and shared Morgan's story with her coworkers and students. Several orders were placed and last night we got to work filling them. We decided to deliver the goodies personally, so this morning I loaded the kids into the van and we drove over t...

I love Jen Hatmaker . I love her because she is not afraid of being radically different from the rest of the world. I love her because she doesn't settle for the mediocre. I love her for plainly stating things EXACTLY how they are! She recently wrote a post on her blog entitled, " How to Be The Village ." I laughed. I cried. She took the words (that I can never seem to find) right out of my mouth. She breaks this "Field Guide to Supporting Adoptive Families" down into two categories: "Before the Airport" and "After the Airport." Our family is firmly in BOTH stages at the moment and, because I can never seem to find the words (or the time) to tell it exactly as it is, I'm going to let Jen do the talking for me: Supporting Families Before the Airport Your friends are adopting. They’re in the middle of dossiers and home studies, and most of them are somewhere in the middle of Waiting Purgatory. Please let me explain something about WP: It...