Clarification

I have had a few people ask me questions about the Coupaide.com fundraiser. I had questions too when I first started. It seems strange, donate $20 and get $50?? How does that work? Seems fishy or too good to be true?

Here is a summary of how this works:

1) Click the link on the right side of this blog. It will direct you to our CoupAide fundraising page.

2) Click on the "Buy One" button and move through the payment steps.

3) Following the payment a $50 e-certificate will be emailed to you. This certificate is for www.restaurant.com

Restaurant.com is a website that has partnered with CoupAide to help families who are adopting. Restaurant.com is similar to Groupon for restaurants. 18,000 restaurants participate nationwide and over 60 Louisville. The restaurants are locally owned and use restaurant.com to increase business by offering great deals. The format is very similar to Groupon.com and allows a locally owned restaurant to reach new people. That is why the deals are so good!

4) Go to www.restaurant.com to find local restaurants that are participating.

5) Select the restaurant you like, plug in your e-certificate code and a new, gift certificate for that restaurant will be emailed to you immediately!!

The $50 e-certificate can be split between more than one restaurant - ex. $25 to Shogun and $25 to the Woodford Room.

You could give the initial $50 e-certificate as a gift and allow the other person to select their own specific restaurant.


I am sorry for any confusion you may have had. It does seem odd and confusing when you first see it but PLEASE ask questions if you need to! We have set a goal of selling 300 coupons!!

We hope that people purchase one, use it, love it and come back for another one! This fundraiser will be ongoing so feel free to check back anytime to purchase a second or third :) Also, please pass our blog along to others who may want to support a good cause and grab a bite to eat at a local restaurant!! We have flyers available if you would like one to share with friends, family or co-workers.

Thank you for your support. We love and appreciate you all!

China!!

The secret is out! We are adopting from China!

We nearly signed with our China agency in Jan 2012 but received a phone call from our Rwanda power of attorney that we were about to be matched. Not just matched with one child but that there was still a chance to be matched with two children. We obviously decided that we should wait on China for Rwanda. Fast forward a few months after we were matched in Rwanda and we decide to move forward with an adoption from China. Rwanda had not fallen apart but appeared to be lingering on...forever.

We signed with our wonderful agency CCAI. They are highly regarded in the Chinese adoption community and appeared to be a good fit for us. They are absolutely wonderful. Although we have had multiple previous home studies (5 I think) we had to start over. Again. We are pros at this now. We whipped out that home study, gathered all of our documents and shipped our dossier off to Washington DC for all the lovely stamps and seals. Easy, right? Not so fast. FedEx LOST our dossier. Gone. Vanished. Zip.Zero. Nothing. SOOO we had to gather our entire dossier again. That took a month. Then back to DC for all the pretty stamps and seals...off to the agency...off to China! We were logged in with the Chinese government adoption authority on Oct 22, 2012. That is our LID. That stands for log in date. That is the magic date that allows our agency to match us with children.

Yep. Children. We are hoping to adopt two children. We don't know if that will happen but we are still hopeful.

More on the details later! I just figured I should get the blog up and running.