Nesting Fun! :)

Well, I am officially nesting to the maximum degree!  :)  lol  Things I have wanted done for the longest time I am now doing and asking others to get a move on with :)  Celeste said she wanted to put Jeremiah's name on the wall :)  Before we painted the nursery before Noah came , she put tape on the wall in shape of Noah's name and then after the walls dried we pulled it off and  so Noah's name is on the wall in white!  I am sure some of you remember.  So we have been debating how we would do Jeremiah's now that the walls are dark blue!  So Celeste picked out some green paint and made painter's tape stencils to put Jeremiah's name on the wall in a kinda artsy way!  So here are some pics from that :)

Celeste painting :)

After it dried this is pulling painters tape down.

Last of tape coming off!

There you have it folks! :)

Noah snitching Jei Jei's hat!

What , me???

Look at that grin :)

Check out how he fell asleep hanging OVER the chair side! LOL  Had to get a picture before I moved him for fear he would fall out!

We were blessed with a new crib for Jeremiah! We have not had a chance to put it together till tonight so we did so :)

It was quite an adventure putting it togeter! :)  one hole was not drilled right and we had to figure out how to get it right with no drill ourselves!  The new cribs to me are strange compared to old cribs.  LOL 

Noah playing while we worked on crib!  see the cars!  he lines things up ALOT! 

another shot of my boy playing! :)

its all in together!  YIPPEE :)

a frogie bed! :)

That laying over the side rail is a wall haging that will be going up!  I will get more pics as the room progresses.  We have frog items for wall, shelves, etc. and stuff frogs galore!  I need a pet net and such.  some things will have to wait till we are home, some we can do now :)

Celeste took this picture unbeknownst to me, but it to me says waiting!  I am looking into his empy bed thinking about him a world away!  My friend Scott who got his ruling right around the time we did is in TAIWIAN NOW with his son, and we are over a month later going.  I had no clue that it would be such a long time for our dates, and into High season and all that, but God di so I HAVE to trust God to pull it all together!  $3000 is nothing for God! I just know that come June 4th, scared to death or not I will drive 3 hours to get on a plane and start a journey across the ocean to my baby boy! :)  Where is money coming for hotels, trains, cabs, visa, food, etc...  ??? I HAVE NO CLUE!  But my Father does! :)

made this today for my desktop wallpaper! :) 

This is the center picture in the collage wallpaper :)  I love this!!!

Jeremiah, my sweet angel boy.  We are having such fun getting ready for you :)  Mommy was on the phone today with Shriners about you, and daddy and I put your crib together today! :)  I can't wait till you are laying in your crib while I am cooking supper for you in the kitchen outside your room! :)  We have airline tickets on hold for you buddy today they were partially paid for but as with everything it seems in this journey it did not go smoothly and even after telling 2 separate people, they would not let him charge all the ticket price, so mommy will call credit card company and bank tomorow!  I can't wait to have the tickets in my hand!  It was so wonderful to look at an itenerary today with YOUR name on it :)  Hang on tight just a bit longer Jeremiah, we are coming... until we get there, catch my kisses in the wind!

Blessings...

I am so blessed that several work at home moms with businesses have decided that they want to help bring Jeremiah home!  And so we have MULTIPLE fundraisers now going on :)  Please check each out and see if there is anything your family can use :)
First is my friend Kim at Kuddly Kreations!  She says ANY purchase in the month of my that puts for Sisemore Adoption Fundraiser in the comments she will give 20 percent of it to Jeremiah :)
so that sparked my friend Heather over at Milburn Mercantile to offer the same deal.  ANY purchase in the month of May that you tell her is for Sisemore Adoption will earn 20 percent for Jeremiah :)

Also our Discovery Toys fundraiser by my friend Maggie is still going and it is going NOW :)  Her site is for DISCOVERY TOYS  :)  Be sure to follow that link at that the cart says Maggie Ham or Margaret Ham when you purchase and be sure and put that it is for Jeremiah's adoption :)

Also don't forget our Frogie Blankets Giveaway, Picture is on the sidebar and the chipin to enter the giveaways is above :)  one time in the drawing for each $5 donation :)

This saturday May 1, for you local folks we will be having a bake sale at Beautiful Boutique in Bossier :)  Please pray that it goes well and that Beautiful Boutique will be blessed with extra business because they have allowed us to have the sale!

and Next Saturday May 8th we have secured a spot at the Poke Salad Festival and will be selling Adoption bracelets, sonic cards and PRAYERFULLY some craft items if I can get some things donated!  If you sew and want to make things to help, or anything you have that you would like to donate PLEASE let me know :) email me at Childofmyheart@aol.com.  PRAYING that goes well! :)  We had wanted to do cokes and baked goods but the fees and insurance were too high to make it worthwhile.

Please be praying as we have a Ham, scalloped potatoes, green beans, bread and dessert sale on Thursday!

We need to raise over $3000 still so PLEASE storm heaven and share our fundraisers with anyone who might help, also you can donate on our 100 Good wishes if you want.  Even if it is only $5 :)  would love to hear your good wish and see a family picture to print to put in Jeremiah's book of families who helped bring him home :)  The link to that is above on the blog also :)  Just click the picture!

Jeremiah's Story- the last leg home

My new friend Gigi over at Charming Station that did our embroidery fundraiser for us before, has made and donated another set to help raise funds for Jeremiah! :)  LOOK:


Special Sets

Jeremiah's Story- the last leg home

We first told you Jeremiah's story in February. Please click here if you missed it.

The time has finally come to bring Jeremiah home. We helped to raise more than $1,000 with our first fund raiser for Jeremiah earlier this year. Tami and her husband are scheduled to fly to Taiwan on June 7th to pick him up. With the new baggage fees and higher summer prices, they have discovered that they don't have enough to cover all of the airplane fares and related expenses.

If you liked the previous set of stylish cats, we have the perfect companion set for you. This new set has six additional cats in the same style as the first set we did for Jeremiah and this set also includes 6 text sayings about cats. The money raised here will go toward the airfare and other expenses for bringing Jeremiah home.

Things did get a bit confused with the payments and Paypal receipts going directly to Tami last time, so we are using our regular shopping cart here in order to get you the designs as soon as possible. We'll send the donations on to Tami for you.

This set is specially priced and the money raised will be donated to bringing Jeremiah home - the final leg of the trip! This wonderful artwork is from Clip Art and Scrap

Just go to this link :)

http://www.charmingstation.com/SpecialSets/Jeremiah2.html
Gift #2 for Jeremiah -
$10.00
Please select format: PES 4x4 HUS 4x4 JEF 4x4 ART 4x4 VIP 4x4

Frequent Flyer Miles????

Travel agent just called asking me to ask folks if they would doante frequent flyer miles!  UGGGH  God is so making me do things that are out of my comfort zone at this point in my life... so I ask ..  Does anyone have any frequent flyer miles they would be willing to donate for the us leg of our flight??  Apparently he can get us a good international deal through Chicago but cant get us from here to there without HUGE prices.  I know one friend has American Airlines frequent flyer miles but she does not know how many or if hubby would say yes.  We need alot of miles to same airline basically!  PLEASE if you have any you would be willing to donate email me at Tamijoysisemore@aol.com or Childofmyheart@aol.com and if you dont PLEASE pray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HIGH SEASON is NOT my friend :(

After waiting for almost 13 months to finally get a date and by the time we actually get to go the wait will have been over 15 months, we are traveling during "the WORST time possible"!  Flights are going to be MUCH higher than our budgeted amount!  We do finally have flights on hold, the agent is calling later tonight to discuss it all,  We have over half of the money now and what is in our RR grant fund is on its way by mail in a Check.  This could get interesting!  So we need prayer that the check gets here and clears quickly!  Also, the flights will take ALMOST everything we have saved so far, sooo that means ALOT of fundraising in a few weeks!  I am not positive but my best guesstimate is we need about 3,000 minimum by the time we leave June 4th!!!!!  GOD IS ABLE, GOD IS ABLE, GOD IS ABLE!  That is all I can think of at this point!  PLEASE if you have thought about donating to help Jeremiah at ANY point NOW is the time!  IF you think your donation would not be enough to help, IT WOULD!  If you have been saving change, PLEASE let us know and send it on!  PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PRAY for us!  We have an opportunity to raise funds at a festival May 8, IF we can come up with upfront money to book the booths ($100 for food booth, $35 for craft) and the money for supplies in food booth, and IF my friend who donated pillows before has anymore excess pillows and crafty things to spare!  lots of iffs!  Please be in prayer for that!  We are so close and yet so far!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  PLEASE PRAY, please comment and tell me you are praying :)  send me a word of encouragement or a miracle or two!
and so we ALL remember what it is all about:

Jeremiah my sweet frogie boy!  Mama loves you soo much, I literally ache to have you with me!  It seems like this journey to you has been so hard but oh my sweet sweet boy YOU are soo worth it!  God has been so eveident in every step of this journey to you!  God must really be planning to some special things through you baby boy!  So many people are praying for you and they are excited to see you come home!!! :)  We are coming baby boy....hold on tight and as you rest, listen real close and you will hear me saying mommy loves you in you heart and catch my kisses in the wind!

NEW PICS to go with that date!!!!

So How does a good day keep getting better!  PICS in addition to the travel dates!!! :)   I have waited since January to see a new picture of our boy! These were taken at 2:54 pm Taiwan Time TODAY!!!  Which was 1:54 am central time here!  They went and took them special for us :)  Not sure why we have not gotten any in all this time but these are so precious! :)

Now , for a bit more about what we found out about when we go!  Here are snippets from the email from SLC staff :)

 

              please let the family know we all very    gratitude them ,they are so kind wonderful family

              we love Liang Chung,he will go his forever home ,

              I will ask NANNY NURSE to prepare more information ....do'n't worry ..

              I think they can come here to pick up Liang-Chung  on Jun.7th  AM10:30

             please let me know if the date would be okay

              we would like to  ask if the family can share with us about the adoption in the coming day?

                we will invite our  Sister Tang,and reporters come here on Jun.7th

               do you think it's a good idea?  we just want to share family BIG LOVE with other family

              thank you so much     

So from what we undestand Sister Tang is Sister Therese that is over all of the orphanage and the Sisters that started it :)  We are quite honored they would like us to share about our heart of adoption and what God has done in us and in our journeys!  And how God made these special babies!  To others they are special needs, but in reality they are just special!  I am a nervous wreck, but also excited!  :)  LORD use me as a mouthpeice for all who will see this now and in the future! :)  I can't wait to hold my newest son! :)  This has since been confirmed that our date is June 7th at 10:30 am!  That is local time 9:30 pm June 6th.  Ait will be either Tuesday or Wednesday.  For Jeremiah's benefit it is probably going to be Wednesday so not as much transition all at once and not straight from St. Lucy's to a train!  Also , because of the date being much later than we ever thought or imagined, the lady who was suppose to go with us as the extra person to film and document what is said and all with Jeremiah's care can't now go, she has a missions trip that week that has been planned a long while.  This is sad to me and her and we both cried to not share this time together, BUT, Celeste graduates May 14th and will be done with Clinicals and all and so she will be GOING WITH US NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  She will be the extra person.  PLEASE PRAY her passport gets done quickly.  They are there now expediating it!  You may wonder why we need an extra person but it has been advised and we have agreed with that advise! :)

I am bouncing OFF the walls!!!!!!  :)

THE POST YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!!!!!!!!!!

FINALLY, the post you have been waiting for!!!!!!

JUNE 7TH!!!!!!!!!

We finally heard!  And to boot what was said about us was amazing AND We will MEET Sister Tang! AND there will be reporters there as well!!!  They say they want us to share our "BIG LOVE"!!!!!!!  I am freaking!  BUT this is something I wanted and thought we would some day do! SHARE OUR STORY with the world about how God bridged the ocean to bring our special babies to us!  WOW!  I am beside myself!!!!!!  JEREMIAH IS COMING HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

I have to go make the 5 plates we sold for this weeks sale.  VERY tiny sale and we lost money but I did not want to cancel for those who did want to support us!  

Will be back later!

Baby boy, we got a date!  We are coming as soon as we can!!!!  I LOVE YOU sweet frogie boy!! Catch my kisses in the wind a little while longer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!