Duh!!!

Do you ever have those moments? You know the ones when your watching an infomercial and you think "why didn't I think of that." Last night I got on Facebook late because a friends son had been taken to the hospital and I was checking on updates. I noticed one of my new Facebook friends (who is an adoption advocate) put a link for a foundation on. I clicked on the link not thinking much about it because truly as someone that advocates for adoption everyday I have seen thousands of sites. What I read on this site kept me up the entire night.

I truly believe God has given the creators of this foundation the keys in the fight against abortion. How many of you are pro-life? How many of your churches are pro-life? What are our churches doing about it? The Zoe Foundation was set up to be a tool for churches in the fight against abortion but in a way I have never seen before.

What if our churches started praying every Sunday for the lives of these babies? What if our churches started praying for hearts to be opened to adoption EVERY SUNDAY? What if the body of Christ came together to make a HUGE change in fight against abortion.

PLEASE, PLEASE go spend some time reading through this site yourself but here is a little of how The Zoe Foundation Works from what I have read.

Christians coming together to pray.

A database set of thousands of Christians from all over the country willing to not only be pro-life but to be willing to adopt one of these babies saved from abortion. A database that counselors, Dr.s or whoever else could show someone considering abortion that there are thousands of families ready to say yes whether it be a healthy child, hiv baby, limb diffference baby, bi-racial baby or maybe even a baby that God chooses to be on the earth for a very short time.

To have churches support birth mothers that choose life by loving on them, getting them gift cards to buy things they need, providing a home for them and the pre-natal care they need.

Getting Dr.'s, social workers, adoption agencies to be willing to help a certain number of clients each month that are adopting for NO CHARGE. What an awesome way to use the gifts God has given you. If you fit in to one of these categories they are looking for people like you so contact them!

Getting Christians to help others adopting fundraise to help with adoption expenses. This could be teachers that tutor once a week and donate the money to someone adopting. Someone that makes crafts selling them to help someone bring home one of these babies that have been saved. Someone that is an artist to use their gifts to help fundraise. Maybe someone that is a good cook offering to make hot dinners for working families once a week in exchange for donations to an adopting family.

Let's not forget about kids too. What if we started teaching our kids to fight against abortion by loving others? Let the kids get out and have lemonade stands, car washes, art auctions or mow lawns to help save the life of a baby by supporting an adopting family.

God gave each one of us different gifts and what if thousands of people came together to use those gifts to fight abortion, love on birth mothers and help adopting families get these babies into loving homes.

Please click here to go read about this foundation. Pray about getting your church involved in this foundation. Watch the video below.

Can You Guess What She's Dreaming of Tonight?

We have one very excited little girl!

Amaya's top tooth has been loose for MONTHS and it has been driving her crazy that it wouldn't come out. Last night we watched a movie about a tooth fairy and she was determined that this tooth was going to come out. Amaya took her fairy house outside last night just in case but nothing happened last night. Tonight she told me she was not going to bed until it came out so she told me to pull it. I turned on a Veggie Tale video for her to watch while I was pulling it and the tooth came out before the video even started.

Since I have a lot of friends reading this that are teachers out there I have something to tell you. The one thing that Amaya gets even more excited about than the tooth fairy is telling her teacher about it the next day. I don't know about other kids but how special is it that in the eyes of at least this child it is more exciting to think about telling her teacher than it is even for the tooth fairy to come.

Jaxson and His Capri's

This morning I had to take the girls to sign up for Girl Scouts and I am sick so I just asked all the kids to get dressed and to be honest I didn't even check to see what they had on.

Jaxson had said something to me about wanting to wear capri's like Amaya and I, and I said "Jaxson just get dressed we need to go."

I went and dropped Jaxson off to work with daddy while I took the girls and didn't even notice his pants until he got out of the car. Jaxson decided if he didn't have capri's to wear he was going to make capri's to wear.

Now to totally change the subject, is this not the cutest cupcake you have ever seen? There is a new bakery near us and my mom brought this home for us.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Child of the Week - In Honor of Tressel

In honor of Baby Tressel I thought I would pick a child of the week for this week that needs a mommy and daddy that will help him get help to fix his little heart.

Joshua (19)

Boy, Born April 8, 2007

Joshua is a sweet 3 year old who was born with an ASD (atrial septal defect). As a result he does have pulmonary hypertension, and he needs a family quickly to get the medical care and surgery he needs to correct this before it is too late. Joshua is tiny and is kept from doing many things because they do not want him to exert himself. Joshua has so much potential in life, and I can't wait to see him running and climbing with the rest of his friends!

Joshua has a large grant of $4775 to help with adoption expenses.

Please pray for him.

Spread the word about him. The more his face gets around the better the chance of him finding a family.

If you are able, help donate to his grant fund because he needs a family fast.

Click here and scroll down to find out more about him.

Also please keep Emilie and Scott in your prayers over the next couple of days because tonight is visitation and then tomorrow is Tressel's funeral. Since the funeral is a long way from where they live they are also having a Celebration of life for Tressel on Sunday. They are collecting books to donate in Tressel's name to Cincinnati Children's Hospital so if you would like to donate a book or a few books leave me your email and I can tell you where to send them.

Amazing Giveaway!

Oh my goodness you are not going to want to miss this! Trust me I know your not going to want to miss this because I own one of these.

My new friend Jill who happens to be the amazing graphic artist I use for my special pieces is giving away one of these pictures like the one below.

It is so easy to enter so you need to click here and check it out.

Also tomorrow I will be adding 10 pendants in my shop with amazing graphics designed by Jill. The pendants I make with her graphics sell very, very fast so make sure to check out my shop tomorrow. Here is a quick peek of ones I will be adding:

Pregnancy Loss
For These Children I Have Prayed (2 different ones)
Will You Go?
Mom of Many Nations
Until There Are No More Orphans
Blessed Mom of Many
Adoption is so Worth It!
Choose Love
Yes! They are all Mine

The words on these pendants came from my friend Holly, the graphics are from Jill and well God used my hands to make the pendants. Make sure you check my shop out tomorrow to see them. I may get some up tonight if I have time.

The Awe Factor of God

You know, every night when I take the dogs out before bed I look at the stars and am amazed at the greatness of God. Everytime I see mountains or the ocean I think the same thing or even just being in the woods and seeing God's creations, hearing and smelling it. Until I saw the video below I never really thought much about what is beyond the stars. Watch this video and be amazed.

In the Arms of Jesus

Last night this precious little hero completed the work God brought him to this earth for and he is now in the arms of Jesus.

Please keep praying for his family.