A long overdue update on Handmade Hope:

Over the past few months, Handmade Hope raised over $360 for Ethiopian Orphan Relief!  Thank you to all my friends and family who purchased items for this worthy cause!
And I just heard yesterday that EOR has 100% met their goal of raising enough money to fund a school & [...]

I’m thankful.   I have food that goes bad in refrigerator before I even have a chance to eat it.  I have more than one outfit and more than one pair of shoes.  I can go to a doctor and get medicine or treatment or surgery if I ever need to.  I have not one, [...]

{ My sweet husband }   I don’t know if you know this, but since the end of October, I’ve been working as a front desk receptionist.  Do you remember the episode of “The Office” where it’s Valentine’s Day, and all these wonderful flowers and plants and teddy bears keep coming in for everybody but Pam Beasley, [...]

As a lot of you know, Funnel and I are planning on adopting one day, so I read a lot of adoption blogs.  One of my favorites is A Bushel and a Peck.  Lisa is the author, and she and her husband have 11 children – 4 of them are adopted from Ethiopia.  One of [...]

 
((Maria and Stevie Chapman))
I was really saddened this past week after I read about the death of Steven Curtis Chapman’s daughter, Maria, the youngest of the three little girls they adopted from China.  I think I read that she was five years old.  She died in a freak accident in their driveway — her older brother was [...]