My Single Adoption: iPad Giveaway

Friday, August 12, 2011

iPad Giveaway

Simply Love t-shirts for men and women and coffee mug designs are now for sale on the Simply Love page of my blog. For every Simply Love item purchased your name will go into a drawing for a brand new black 16GB Apple iPad 2. Drawing will be held on Sunday, August 28th. Get your stylish Simply Love gear and help support adoption at the same time. Every item purchased helps me bring my little boy home from Africa. Thank you so much for your support!!!

Special thanks to Kari Gibson of mycrazyadoption.com for allowing adoptive parents to use her Simply Love designs to fundraise with!!!

2 different t-shirt designs. 4 color choices for guys. 5 color choices for girls.

2 comments:

CherishAugust 12, 2011 at 1:43 PM
I love these tees! I already own one directly from Kari's page during a previous fundraiser. I'm gonna keep my fingers crossed for the I-pad!
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KariAugust 12, 2011 at 2:58 PM
I am like weeping reading your blog... I'm so proud of you sister and your big heart for orphans and now adoption! Your Simply Love Gear ROCKS!!! I absolutely love the colors you picked and ink choices make everything pop. I can't wait to drink coffee out of my new mug with my NEW IPAD!! I want to win:)
Love you!!
Mama Kiki
www.mycrazyadoption.com
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Adoption Timeline

11/1/12 Arrived home in the US with my son!!!
10/28/12 Gotcha day - met M's grandma in the morning and picked him up in the afternoon - for good!!!
10/26/12 Got on a plane to go get my son!!!
10/23/12 Birth relative interview - found out the same day that I was cleared for pickup!!!!
10/15/12 Submitted for Embassy
9/5/12 Mihretu's medical exam happened. Now we are waiting on the report so we can be submitted to Embassy!
8/31/12 Mihretu's passport is here! 1 more step before Embassy - his medical exam next week!
8/28/12 MOWA approval letter received - 1 step closer!
8/25/12 Got a letter in the mail from Show Hope. I am receiving a grant which means I'm pretty much fully funded!!!
8/23/12 Got Mihretu's birth certificate!!!
8/10/12 After being back in the states since Wed, I get the word that I have officially passed court and I'm legally Mihretu's momma!
8/6/12 The judge agrees and does my parental interview for court while I'm in Ethiopia!
8/1/12 See my boy for the first time in a year!!! Got to spend 7 days with him. He loves to snuggle and did not want to be separated from mom. He was already calling me mommy by the end of the first day. A true God thing!
7/25/12 Got a text at 3am while I'm in Uganda telling me my case has been submitted for court!
7/20/12 Got word an hour before my flight left for my Uganda/Ethiopia trip that my son's paperwork is finally done and he's been moved to my agencies care center!!
5/31/12 Turned in adoption grant application - praying I get a grant!
3/23/12 Attended Created 4 Care Adoption conference
1/14/12 - fingerprinting I-600 approval received, scanned and emailed to my agency
1/10/12 Dossier is finished & mailed it to my agency
12/1/11 Fingerprinting appointment
11/12/11 Adoption Fundraiser concert
10/17/11 Home Study Approved by my adoption agency
10/13/11 Fundraiser Concert announced for Nov 12
10/1/11 Yard Sale Fundraiser
9/26/11 Give home study agency my I600 A form along with and wait for fingerprinting appointment to arrive in the mail
9/26/11 Final home study appointment - the home visit!!!
•9/1/11 2nd home study appointment
•8/28/11 iPad giveaway
•8/18/11 Application, Contract and fees have been paid to adoption agency
•8/16/11 First Home Study Appointment
•8/2/11 After doors closing on one agency, found an agency that would work with me
•7/28/11 Day after I got home - started looking into adopting him
•7/24/11 Fell in love with a 2 year old little boy in Africa