Bake Sale!

On Sunday we had a bake sale at church to raise support for our adoption. (Just so happens that November is National Adoption Month. Although I didn't realize this when I picked this weekend, it was a cool little accident.) I really didn't feel like spending Saturday making stuff for a bake sale because I didn't have a lot of hope that we would make much money. But last month I signed up for a chance to win a "Bake Sale" package full of stuff from Reynolds Kitchens. I read about it on Mama Duck's blog. (Thanks Mama Duck!) I figured, Why not give it a try? So I emailed in my information which had to include the date of our upcoming bake and why we needed New Reynolds® FunShapes™ baking cups and cake pans to help make our bake sale more successful. And here's the clencher - if we held our bake sale and then sent pictures of it back to Reynolds Kitchens, we would be entered in a contest to win $500.00 for our organization, Christian World Adoption which they will apply toward our adoption fees.

Well imagine my surprise, when our kit arrived in the mail. Inside the box we found a table cloth, a cute "Fun Shapes" calculator, a camera for capturing our bake sale images, three sets fun shapes cupcake liners and a CD Rom of helpful information. So we were commited. Saturday afternoon we set to work mixing, baking and decorating. Eight hours later we had chocolate chip cookies, brownies and 85 cupcakes. It was a family effort. (As you can tell from the pictures.) On Sunday morning, we got to church early and set up our table, put up our sign, made our announcement and...




We had an incredible sale! Folks were so generous! (and hungry!) When we closed up after the second service we didn't have anything left to sell and our collection envelope was bursting with over $400.00!

Now we still have a way to go to get enough money to send off with our dossier, but we were so blessed by this fundraiser. We took plenty of pictures and will be sending them off for a chance at $500.00. We're also waiting to hear about whether Shaohannah’s Hope will be giving us a grant. If you're so inclined, could you say a pray for us? We're all impatient to progress in the journey to bring our Ethiopian babies home.