Only 3 more days to donate to Sergei's fund to be entered into the Kindle Fire giveaway!
Please email or comment on the blog when you donate so that you can be entered. Giveaway closes at midnight on Wednesday the 30th! Giveaway details are HERE
Please share with your family and friends, let me know and you can receive extra entries!!
Also, Check out this huge fundraiser that includes Sergei and 12 other forgotten Babes on the Angel Tree. Spread the word about and donate to these precious children!! PLEASE!!!
Thanks!
Debby
Monday, November 28, 2011
Friday, November 18, 2011
Sergei Week 3
Hello!
Just want to remind you that there are only 12 more days to donate to Sergei in order to be entered into my Kindle Fire Giveaway. I will draw the winner at midnight 11/30 and announce the winner on Dec. 1st! $5 = 1 entry, $35= 10 entries + an ornament of Sergei from Reece's Rainbow. All donations are tax deductible and go directly to Sergei's adoption grant at http://reecesrainbow.org/682/sergei-g
Thank you so much for the many generous donations Sergei has already received! His Angel Tree account is at $1293, as of today, which puts his total adoption grant at over $6000! That's all from you guys! From last years' fundraiser and this years' efforts. We are doing great! Let's get him a huge grant so that somebody will not stumble (or choke) over the monumental cost of adoption. We will be helping a family step forward and be brave, if money is the only object holding them back from welcoming this sweet child into their family. Please consider spreading the word AND donating to Sergei.
Meanwhile, don't forget that I am also getting ready for my December fundraiser. It starts December 1st and so far one of the prizes is a brand new Keurig Brewer with 4 boxes of Kcups. There will be more prizes added to the December drawing, but you'll have to wait and see what they are!
Donate securely using PayPal through the Reece's Rainbow donation box. Email, comment or message me with your donation amount if you'd like to be entered into the drawing.
YOU can make a difference in the life of an orphan with Down Syndrome!
Just want to remind you that there are only 12 more days to donate to Sergei in order to be entered into my Kindle Fire Giveaway. I will draw the winner at midnight 11/30 and announce the winner on Dec. 1st! $5 = 1 entry, $35= 10 entries + an ornament of Sergei from Reece's Rainbow. All donations are tax deductible and go directly to Sergei's adoption grant at http://reecesrainbow.org/682/sergei-g
Thank you so much for the many generous donations Sergei has already received! His Angel Tree account is at $1293, as of today, which puts his total adoption grant at over $6000! That's all from you guys! From last years' fundraiser and this years' efforts. We are doing great! Let's get him a huge grant so that somebody will not stumble (or choke) over the monumental cost of adoption. We will be helping a family step forward and be brave, if money is the only object holding them back from welcoming this sweet child into their family. Please consider spreading the word AND donating to Sergei.
Meanwhile, don't forget that I am also getting ready for my December fundraiser. It starts December 1st and so far one of the prizes is a brand new Keurig Brewer with 4 boxes of Kcups. There will be more prizes added to the December drawing, but you'll have to wait and see what they are!
Donate securely using PayPal through the Reece's Rainbow donation box. Email, comment or message me with your donation amount if you'd like to be entered into the drawing.
YOU can make a difference in the life of an orphan with Down Syndrome!
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
ChipIn is on the Fritz
I have received all the donations, just they weren't displaying on my blog. Please donate using Reece's Rainbow's donate button.
EMAIL or COMMENT with your contact info and amount of donation if you'd like to be entered into the drawing. I cannot see who donates when ChipIn isn't working. You don't need to contact me if you've already donated prior to now. I have your info. Sorry for the confusion!
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GIVEAWAY RECAP: here are the GIVEAWAY details for all those people out there who like the idea of 'winning' a sweet Christmas present to either keep or give away, there's an added incentive in giving to sweet Sergei.
I am donating a brand new Amazon Kindle Fire!!!!!
Every donation of $5 will give you 1 entry into my giveaway. A donation of $35 will qualify you for 10 entries plus Reece's Rainbow will send you an ornament with Sergei's picture on it!
$5 = 1 entry
$10= 2 entries
$35 = 10 entries + an ornament
$40 = 11 entries
Bonus Entries: Anyone who donates has the added option to gain more entries by posting about this giveaway on their blog, Facebook, or Twitter. You will get an additional entry per post/FB/Twitter, per day, once a donation is received. Please comment or email me (sweetsergei@hotmail.com) to tell me about your cross posts!
I will draw a winner on November 30, 2011 via random.com and will post the results on December 1st. The winner will have a brand new Kindle Fire mailed to you directly from Amazon!!!!
There will also be another drawing starting on December 1st and running through December 31st. I will post details about the sweet prizes as time gets closer!!! There may even be small weekly giveaways to keep you enticed!
Addition Info:
Click Sergei's picture on the right to get all the Angel Tree info from Reece's Rainbow.
As for information on my fundraising for Sergei, all the money donated through Chip-In (Online Paypal) goes directly to Sergei's adoption fund. I can see who donates, but I never come in contact with the money. If you'd prefer to donate by writing a check, please make it out to Reece's Rainbow, put a notation that it's for Sergei G. on the Angel Tree, and mail it to:
Reece’s Rainbow
PO Box 4024
Gaithersburg, MD 20885
Thanks for helping Sergei!
EMAIL or COMMENT with your contact info and amount of donation if you'd like to be entered into the drawing. I cannot see who donates when ChipIn isn't working. You don't need to contact me if you've already donated prior to now. I have your info. Sorry for the confusion!
==========================
GIVEAWAY RECAP: here are the GIVEAWAY details for all those people out there who like the idea of 'winning' a sweet Christmas present to either keep or give away, there's an added incentive in giving to sweet Sergei.
I am donating a brand new Amazon Kindle Fire!!!!!
Every donation of $5 will give you 1 entry into my giveaway. A donation of $35 will qualify you for 10 entries plus Reece's Rainbow will send you an ornament with Sergei's picture on it!
$5 = 1 entry
$10= 2 entries
$35 = 10 entries + an ornament
$40 = 11 entries
Bonus Entries: Anyone who donates has the added option to gain more entries by posting about this giveaway on their blog, Facebook, or Twitter. You will get an additional entry per post/FB/Twitter, per day, once a donation is received. Please comment or email me (sweetsergei@hotmail.com) to tell me about your cross posts!
I will draw a winner on November 30, 2011 via random.com and will post the results on December 1st. The winner will have a brand new Kindle Fire mailed to you directly from Amazon!!!!
There will also be another drawing starting on December 1st and running through December 31st. I will post details about the sweet prizes as time gets closer!!! There may even be small weekly giveaways to keep you enticed!
Addition Info:
Click Sergei's picture on the right to get all the Angel Tree info from Reece's Rainbow.
As for information on my fundraising for Sergei, all the money donated through Chip-In (Online Paypal) goes directly to Sergei's adoption fund. I can see who donates, but I never come in contact with the money. If you'd prefer to donate by writing a check, please make it out to Reece's Rainbow, put a notation that it's for Sergei G. on the Angel Tree, and mail it to:
Reece’s Rainbow
PO Box 4024
Gaithersburg, MD 20885
Thanks for helping Sergei!
Monday, November 14, 2011
Does God Chew Gum?
I gave Zeze his first piece of gum this weekend! I kept explaining that he shouldn't swallow the gum, but to just keep chewing it. He was really excited to try adult candy and kept telling me how he was a big boy and knew to chew the gum without swallowing. So cute! Later he came up to me and asked me, "Does God chew gum?". I told him that God didn't chew gum and he replied, "Oh. He probably swallows it." :-)
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Sergei G's Christmas Angel Tree Fundraiser
Hello, Friends!!!!
Some of you may remember my attempts last year to raise money for a little orphan with Down syndrome during Reece's Rainbow's Christmas Angel Tree fundraiser. See here He is called Sergei G. on the Reece's Rainbow Waiting Children page.
Sergei G.
(His youngest picture- not sure of his age here)
(This is a current picture from Reece's Rainbow received on 11/23/10. Sergei is turning 6 this month!)
You may also remember that you and I helped raise over $3000 for his adoption fund!!!! WAHOOOOO!
First, before I get too carried away, let me give some background info for those of you hearing about Reece's Rainbow for the first time:
Reece's Rainbow is an organization that promotes the international adoption of children with Down syndrome in a way that seems very unique to me. They create accounts for each of the children on their 'Waiting Children' pages and people can donate to a specific child. When a family comes forth to adopt a child, the money in that child's account is used for the adoption fees. If the adoption falls through for some reason, the money stays in the child's account so that another family can make use of the money!
Here is some info that will SHOCK you! In Eastern European countries, right now, babies that are born with Ds are immediately put into orphanages. Their parents are told that their babies aren't capable of learning, loving or living a life and that they should be cordoned off from the rest of society. There are not options for Early Intervention therapy, doctor intervention or even schooling. Oftentimes the families of people with Down syndrome are shunned and find it difficult to find work and other necessities of life. Therefore these sweet sweet babies are abandoned to orphanages FILLED with all the other children that don't look 'perfect', that have some extra special chromosomes, or had a difficult start to life because their mama drank and drank throughout the pregnancy.
When these babies become grown and old, no wait, when they turn 3-6 YEARS old (!!!) they are transferred to adult mental institutions. Insane asylums. Locked up. Left in their cribs. Thrown a bottle of food and possibly given a diaper change. Most of these medically fragile darlings die within the first year due to neglect and horrible living conditions.
While Chad and I hope to adopt one of these angels in the future, it is not our time yet. So the least I can do is shout out for Sergei and try to find him a family AND get some more money into his adoption fund!!!!!
The goal of a Christmas Warrior is to commit to raising $1000 for a child on RR's Christmas Angel Tree. However, it costs $25,000 to adopt a child with Ds from an orphanage/institution so I set a CRAZY goal for myself, and for you all, to see if we can add $5,000 to his current adoption fund of $5396. That would be over $10,000!!!!!!!!!!
I am so excited to think you, my friends, can work together to give one boy a chance!!!! A chance of finding a family to love him! A chance to give a potential family a good financial head start toward the huge cost of international adoption.
Oh, please help Sergei find a family!!! Please tell your friends and family. Please go to Reece's Rainbow's Angel Tree kids and gaze at all of these Down syndrome beauties; gaze at their sweetness; their innocence. Do any of them touch your heart? Does Sergei touch your heart enough for you to repost on Facebook or to email my blog to your family? To donate?
I truly hope so!!!!!
Now here are the GIVEAWAY details for all those people out there who like the idea of 'winning' a sweet Christmas present to either keep or give away, there's an added incentive in giving to sweet Sergei.
I am donating a brand new Amazon Kindle Fire!!!!!
Every donation of $5 will give you 1 entry into my giveaway. A donation of $35 will qualify you for 10 entries plus Reece's Rainbow will send you an ornament with Sergei's picture on it!
$5 = 1 entry
$10= 2 entries
$35 = 10 entries + an ornament
$40 = 11 entries
Bonus Entries: Anyone who donates has the added option to gain more entries by posting about this giveaway on their blog, Facebook, or Twitter. You will get an additional entry per post/FB/Twitter, per day, once a donation is received. Please comment or email me (sweetsergei@hotmail.com) to tell me about your cross posts!
I will draw a winner on November 30, 2011 via random.com and will post the results on December 1st. The winner will have a brand new Kindle Fire mailed to you directly from Amazon!!!!
There will also be another drawing starting on December 1st and running through December 31st. I will post details about the sweet prizes as time gets closer!!! There may even be small weekly giveaways to keep you enticed!
Addition Info:
Click Sergei's picture on the right to get all the Angel Tree info from Reece's Rainbow.
As for information on my fundraising for Sergei, all the money donated through Chip-In (Online Paypal) goes directly to Sergei's adoption fund. I can see who donates, but I never come in contact with the money. If you'd prefer to donate by writing a check, please make it out to Reece's Rainbow, put a notation that it's for Sergei G. on the Angel Tree, and mail it to:
Reece’s Rainbow
PO Box 4024
Gaithersburg, MD 20885
Thanks for helping Sergei!
Lots of love,
Debby
Some of you may remember my attempts last year to raise money for a little orphan with Down syndrome during Reece's Rainbow's Christmas Angel Tree fundraiser. See here He is called Sergei G. on the Reece's Rainbow Waiting Children page.
Sergei G.
You may also remember that you and I helped raise over $3000 for his adoption fund!!!! WAHOOOOO!
First, before I get too carried away, let me give some background info for those of you hearing about Reece's Rainbow for the first time:
Reece's Rainbow is an organization that promotes the international adoption of children with Down syndrome in a way that seems very unique to me. They create accounts for each of the children on their 'Waiting Children' pages and people can donate to a specific child. When a family comes forth to adopt a child, the money in that child's account is used for the adoption fees. If the adoption falls through for some reason, the money stays in the child's account so that another family can make use of the money!
Here is some info that will SHOCK you! In Eastern European countries, right now, babies that are born with Ds are immediately put into orphanages. Their parents are told that their babies aren't capable of learning, loving or living a life and that they should be cordoned off from the rest of society. There are not options for Early Intervention therapy, doctor intervention or even schooling. Oftentimes the families of people with Down syndrome are shunned and find it difficult to find work and other necessities of life. Therefore these sweet sweet babies are abandoned to orphanages FILLED with all the other children that don't look 'perfect', that have some extra special chromosomes, or had a difficult start to life because their mama drank and drank throughout the pregnancy.
When these babies become grown and old, no wait, when they turn 3-6 YEARS old (!!!) they are transferred to adult mental institutions. Insane asylums. Locked up. Left in their cribs. Thrown a bottle of food and possibly given a diaper change. Most of these medically fragile darlings die within the first year due to neglect and horrible living conditions.
While Chad and I hope to adopt one of these angels in the future, it is not our time yet. So the least I can do is shout out for Sergei and try to find him a family AND get some more money into his adoption fund!!!!!
The goal of a Christmas Warrior is to commit to raising $1000 for a child on RR's Christmas Angel Tree. However, it costs $25,000 to adopt a child with Ds from an orphanage/institution so I set a CRAZY goal for myself, and for you all, to see if we can add $5,000 to his current adoption fund of $5396. That would be over $10,000!!!!!!!!!!
I am so excited to think you, my friends, can work together to give one boy a chance!!!! A chance of finding a family to love him! A chance to give a potential family a good financial head start toward the huge cost of international adoption.
Oh, please help Sergei find a family!!! Please tell your friends and family. Please go to Reece's Rainbow's Angel Tree kids and gaze at all of these Down syndrome beauties; gaze at their sweetness; their innocence. Do any of them touch your heart? Does Sergei touch your heart enough for you to repost on Facebook or to email my blog to your family? To donate?
I truly hope so!!!!!
Now here are the GIVEAWAY details for all those people out there who like the idea of 'winning' a sweet Christmas present to either keep or give away, there's an added incentive in giving to sweet Sergei.
I am donating a brand new Amazon Kindle Fire!!!!!
Every donation of $5 will give you 1 entry into my giveaway. A donation of $35 will qualify you for 10 entries plus Reece's Rainbow will send you an ornament with Sergei's picture on it!
$5 = 1 entry
$10= 2 entries
$35 = 10 entries + an ornament
$40 = 11 entries
Bonus Entries: Anyone who donates has the added option to gain more entries by posting about this giveaway on their blog, Facebook, or Twitter. You will get an additional entry per post/FB/Twitter, per day, once a donation is received. Please comment or email me (sweetsergei@hotmail.com) to tell me about your cross posts!
I will draw a winner on November 30, 2011 via random.com and will post the results on December 1st. The winner will have a brand new Kindle Fire mailed to you directly from Amazon!!!!
There will also be another drawing starting on December 1st and running through December 31st. I will post details about the sweet prizes as time gets closer!!! There may even be small weekly giveaways to keep you enticed!
Addition Info:
Click Sergei's picture on the right to get all the Angel Tree info from Reece's Rainbow.
As for information on my fundraising for Sergei, all the money donated through Chip-In (Online Paypal) goes directly to Sergei's adoption fund. I can see who donates, but I never come in contact with the money. If you'd prefer to donate by writing a check, please make it out to Reece's Rainbow, put a notation that it's for Sergei G. on the Angel Tree, and mail it to:
Reece’s Rainbow
PO Box 4024
Gaithersburg, MD 20885
Thanks for helping Sergei!
Lots of love,
Debby
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