Giving On Purpose

If you are alive and breathing and reading this post, then my guess is you are definitely also in the midst of Christmas preparations and shopping for gifts. If you're like me, you love to bless others with gifts, but you also want to fight the materialism of the holiday season. Perhaps you are striving to teach your children to love and give to others-while everything around them is telling them to make their never-ending wish lists of things that they must have. 

So how can you give gifts that have purpose? 

Many adoptive families have fundraisers, where they sell creative items or auction off donated items. Look here first for your gifts. 

Below are a few ideas. These are all amazing families that I know personally who are in the midst of the adoption process. Let's help some children find their families!! So, go ahead-give on purpose.

David and Jaimee Morse-adopting domestically

Please join our friends and their adoption auction going on today only from 7am-midnight CST! To join in and see the items, like Jaimee Morse on facebook and then view the >> Online Adoption Auction << photo album and start bidding! Then share this status with your network and comment on Jaimee's page to be entered to win a $25 Anthropologie gift card!

Their auction is today only!!! They have lots of awesome items up for bid. So head on over, pronto-before their auction is over-and buy some Christmas gifts for your loved ones that will help to bring a baby into a loving, Christian family. 

Stephanie Bartelt-adopting from Ethiopia

She's got a whole etsy site filled with beautiful jewelry. Check it out!!

Susan Dack-helps fundraise for other families (including us) by selling jewelry on her etsy site.

Nik and Stacy Lingle-adopting from Ethiopia

You can purchase one of their t-shirts for just $20! Follow this link to order one.

Derrick and Anna Abell-adopting from Ethiopia

Do you drink coffee? Do you know someone else who drinks coffee? Buy it from here!! They've got coffee, hot chocolate, samplers, chemex coffee makers, t-shirts, etc.