Team Campbell: JOY!

Saturday, May 23, 2009

JOY!

What an amazing weekend! Our garage sale was a HUGE success!! I am exhausted!

In all, we managed to raise a BIG chunk of money to donate in Ethiopia. An amount large enough that I will be contacting our agency for some guidance on where it should go.

I am so overwhelmed by people's kindness and encouragement. There are no words. I am just so grateful to all of you who helped us out and supported our sale and who gave so generously. THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts.

I am so pleased that I have such amazing people in my life and live in such a wonderful community.

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Adoption Timeline

Dec.3, 2009 - Dossier is sent to the Haitian Embassy
Nov.30, 2009 - Officially decided not to proceed with Imagine and Ethiopia
Nov.19, 2009 - Dossier back to provincal office to be sent out to Haitian embassy
Nov.10, 2009 - received Homestudy approval
Oct.21, 2009 - Homestudy complete and sent in for provincial approval
Sept.13, 2009 - Decision to proceed with an adoption from Haiti Children's home
August, 2009 - We are made aware of the children in Haiti Children's Home waiting for families
July 13, 2009 - Imagine adoption goes bankrupt
Dec.27/08 - our Dossier arrives in Addis Ababa, we are officially expecting
Dec.9/08 - home study approved by the Government of Alberta
Nov.3/08 - signed homestudy report arrives at Anne Scully's office awaiting provincial approval
Oct.12/08 (Thanksgiving Sunday) - signed our completed Homestudy report
Oct.8/08 - sent in all the required paperwork for our Dossier to Imagine adoption (except the Homestudy)
Sept.17/08 - application sent in to our Ethiopian adoption coordinator, Imagine adoption
Sept.13/08 - first visit by our social worker for our Homestudy
Sept.6/08 - attended International Adoption Seminar
Aug.22/08 - adoption application to C.A.S

desiderata - by max ehrmann

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

Take kindly to the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Max Ehrmann c.1920

Quotes by Maya Angelou

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
You shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. ~Maya Angelou