Give1Save1: Preface

I hope everyone is aware that we are the Give1Save1 family for this week.  From the handy stats provided by the blog, I can see that most of today's traffic has come from this site which makes me rather excited.  However, if you by chance happened to return to this blog without knowing, now you do.  If you want to know more about Give1Save1, please reference their blog (giveonesaveone.blogspot.com). The crux is you visit the site, you watch a cute movie about our family, you give a donation via the Paypal button there or using one of the other methods listed on our blog fundraising page, and then you tell EVERYONE YOU KNOW about the awesome family you just learned about that could use their support as well.

The company I work for has every employee write down their goals for the year, both business goals and goals related to how we do that business.  They encourage goals be written using the SMART guidelines (Specific, Measurable, Assignable, Realistic, and Time Bound).  So here is my goal for this week: During the week starting February 17, 2014 and ending February 23, 2014, people will donate enough money to our Give1Save1 campaign to cover plane tickets.  This would equate to approximately $4500, which is about half the expense of the trip to pick up our kids.  This is a large amount of money, but I believe it is realistic because I believe in the generosity of people.  I also believe we will have at least 4500 people view our video by the end of the week if everyone extends our message into their networks of friends and families.  If everyone gives, then each person would only have to give $1 to meet this goal. (Another thing about goals from work - the managers write their goals first, which then filter to the supervisors, and finally make it to the grunt employees like myself.  If you couldn't guess from the goal itself, we need your support of this goal to make it a reality - consider yourself "Assigned").

Today I will publish the first segment in a series of posts for this week - I hope you will all come back to read each day.  I promise the posts will be more exciting to read than this boring preface.  The series of posts I want to share with you this week will summarize my thoughts on the adoption journey, which will hopefully let you into what our world has been like over the last two years.