Fundraiser Blitz.. 1,2,3 Hurry GO!!!

We are starting a brief, fast and furious fundraiser!          We have been blessed by an amazing opportunity! 

Our Fundraiser is the Famous Thirty One Blowout Closeout Outlet sale! This sale is HUGELY discounted prices and the items go FASTTT! We have a unique opportunity to scoop up the Commission from our Thirty One reps closeout sale! The sale includes retired prints and styles from past catalogs at DEEPLY discounted prices!!

The sale is Wednesday, April 18, through Friday, April 20 - or WHILE SUPPLIES LAST. This sale is EXTREMELY popular so you must shop early and get everything you want then. Shipping costs play in your favor to buy as much as you can in one shot! :) Read below shipping is CHEAP! The more you buy the cheaper it is, down to FREE shipping for orders over $100! :))))))

 I have a hostess exclusive Double Zip Cosmetic Bag that we will be giving away to one of our shoppers! YOU MUST LET ME KNOW YOU BOUGHT SOMETHING FROM THE SALE! The last sale I was notified every time someone bought something, I WILL not be this time. If you want your name entered in the drawing for the cosmetic bag you MUST LET ME KNOW YOU BOUGHT SOMETHING!!!!

This is the bag you will be entered to win!

Just email me that you bought something and you will be entered to win this bag!!!!

 http://www.mythirtyone.com/AnneLittle/ on April 18, and you will see an OUTLET SALE link. Click on that to shop!

For this Outlet Sale, there will be a tiered pricing strategy for shipping charges for the Continental U.S.:

$8 shipping charge for orders up to $49

$4 shipping charge for orders between $50-$99

FREE shipping for orders over $100

The only exception to this tiered pricing strategy will be for Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and Puerto Rico, which will have a flat shipping charge of $25.

Orders will arrive in-home within 2-4 weeks of purchase.

This is an amazing opportunity for some crazy blow out Outlet prices on great quality items and a HUGE blessing for us as all commission will go straight to bring Elias home! We just got our Thirty One items a few weeks ago and are BEYOND thrilled with the quality of the items we received. We cant wait to see what the Outlet sale will have, I know I am excited and hope you are too!!! 

So 1,2,3  GO ON GET OUT OF HERE AND GET SHOPPING!!!!

http://www.mythirtyone.com/AnneLittle/

Remember while you are shopping you are helping this beautiful little face come home to his family:

                           

My little sick boy

Well Luke is sick for only the 2nd time since he has been home which is now 14 months (WOW!! I cant believe it has been 14 months.. he feels like he has always been here...)

I wont type much just let his photos speak for themselves... WE do truly truly LOVE this boy with every ounce of our bodies and every ounce of love we have. What a great addition to our family he has been. Praying for him to wake up healed tomorrow!

 This was Luke and I last weekend at Tommys soccer game (we froze our butts off!)

                      Dad, Aunt Amy and Luke during half time of the game

My Blanket pal!

                                 My beautiful kids before their haircut day!!!

Paige, Tommy and Luke

                                                                Brothers!

                                             The brothers sporting their new haircuts!!

Luke practicing his math (I had just taught him triple digit multiplication and he SO GOT IT!)

                             Hanging out with mom while fighting with his fever

                                Not super happy to be sick, but still super cute!

                              Getting more pathetic as the days roll on.. Day 3 of being sick....

                     Resting in moms arms  ( I think he could stay there all day! not that I mind!)

                                                         Just chilling and trying to sleep but it isnt working..

Today is another PROUD momma day!

Luke came home with his report card today and this momma is THRILLED!!! I cant beleive how far Luke has come in such a short time! It truly is mind blowing! He has become an amazing son, brother, grandson, cousin, nephew and in such a short time. He is an amazing student and his character in school is incredible! I love his work ethic and self motivation. Those qualities are qualities I would love to see more of in myself! :) He got 9 (yes I said NINE!!!) A's and 1 B.... WAHHOOOOO! How about them apples for a child that just one year ago and 10 1/2 had no language or education! Take that research that says the window of language learning is hard to open after 5 years old. HA we ripped the window right off the sill baby!!!!!!  My boy is learning and learning well! He was literally adding single digits in September and now just yesterday came home multiplying fractions and doing perimeter and such! The boy knocks my socks off!  He came home the other day with a Science test that he got a 21 out of 22 on and it was all about Conducters and Insulators  and Magnets and such and I was like.. '"ummm you dont really get this stuff you have 1 year of language under your belt.... " Well needless to say I was schooled by my boy as he gave me a huge lesson on how those worked! HA I love his brain! I love his heart and I love that boy!  Just wanted to give a shout of praise for my boy!!!!!! GO LUKE!!!


                                                 Here is the precious report card!!!!!!!!!

                              Paige and Luke at the park yesterday! We had a ton of fun!

                               My handsome boy, he is getting so grown up!

Our fundraiser for Luke's brother is almost over!

Ok Guys just TWO and a half days left of our fundraiser! Thats right it is AlMOST OVER! If you are thinking about buying some Thirty One products NOW IS THE TIME!!! We could use the help (not going to lie) and you could use an awesome bag or two (that might be a fib depending on if you need a bag or not!) But seriously we are hitting the end of our amazing Thirty One Fundraiser! Consider helping us out! THANK YOU!!!!

Download a pdf of the Thirty-One spring catalog here:
http://morekids4me.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/spring2012_catalog.pdf

When you are ready to enter your order, go to
http://www.mythirtyone.com/AnneLittle/
Click on "My Events" and then choose the Worrell Family fundraiser.

 

                      I want to kiss those cheeks so bad! Cant wait to get him home!

 Through that gate and those bars is where my Elias is.. His school for the Deaf is in there somewhere........... Cant wait until he is safely home and in school with Luke, with his family, together forever!

Some sign language videos of Luke to share!

I am uploading two recent videos I took of Luke. I am trying to document his signing progression. I did voice his signing so those who do not know sign language can watch too!

The first video is one of Luke signing some of his sight words. These are old sight words that he has not practiced in a long time but he knows them and he wanted to document them on video. We will do some newer words soon. He is signing so well and learning so fast that he is quite an impressive young man!

The next video is one of Luke and his 5 year old sister, Paige. Every night for at least a month now the two of them meet in either Paige's room or Luke's with me and they read stories to me and each other. Paige signs her story and then Luke signs his. It is so cute and precious to watch that I had to share. They are normally much more animated but they also knew mom was recording and I think it added some pressure and stress so they are not animated, but they are signing well. Luke's story is below his reading level now but I was trying to keep it short so that I could upload it. We will try a longer one later! Enjoy, I know I do!!! Plus I just love the special bond that Luke and Paige have, they are ALWAYS together and such amazing brother and sister together.

Hope you enjoy the videos and we will be posting more soon!!!

Fundraiser for my brother, Elias!

• THE WORRELL FAMILY THIRTY ONE FUNDRAISER

• Where:ONLINE!!!

• When: March 1st through March 26th 5:00 pm   We are in the process of adopting 8 year old Elias from Southern China. Elias is Profoundly Deaf , and one handsome little boy. We are more then anxious to bring him home to our family. As some of you know the cost of adoption is pretty darn expensive, but we cannot put a price tag on someones life. Every child deserves to know the love of a family. We scraped and saved and scrimped and fund-raised and applied for grants to bring Luke home and now we are again saving, scrimping, scrapping and praying and praying and praying for the funds to bring our precious son home to his family that cannot wait to welcome him with loving arms! From this fundraiser: 100% of the commission from all sales goes to the Worrell Family Adoption Fund to bring home precious Elias! Make sure you check out the March Customer Special when you are looking at your order. For every $31 in product a customer purchases, they are eligible to purchase a Mini Utility Bin (item 3787) for just $8. This is a $14 savings! There is no limit on the number of customer specials. So, $62 in purchases qualifies for 2 customer specials, $93 qualifies for 3, etc Download a pdf of the Thirty-One spring catalog here: http://morekids4me.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/spring2012_catalog.pdf When you are ready to enter your order, go to http://www.mythirtyone.com/AnneLittle/ Click on "My Events" and then choose the Worrell Family fundraiser. If you feel motivated and would like to help you too can host a Thirty One Catalog party and invite your friends to your house for an event. 100% of the Commission will go to bring Elias home and you will receive the amazing hostess gifts! If you have any questions, or need any help, email, message or call Anne Little 865-405-6979 morekids4me@gmail.com

The truth isnt always easy

Friday night as we were having our family PJ night (pizza, Pjs and a movie). We noticed that Luke has a few facial hairs (Dear Lord help me as I dont know if I am ready for that.. but here it comes).  So I showed Luke that he is changing by showing him his facial hair. Of which he says, yup my real father had a lot of facial hair. WELL since Luke was abandoned at 8 months old there was NO way he would know that. Tom and I asked him how he knew that.. he said DUH I saw it.. We didn't quite know what to say at first. My gut reaction was "leave it alone and it will all go away.." Not a great first reaction. But Luke said, "yea my Father in China had a lot of facial hair". I asked what age did you see your father with facial hair, his answer was at 8 years old before they sent me to live with the ladies with the pink hats(the nannies at the orphanage). Well Tom and I were dumbfounded. Here Luke thought the foster family he lived with was his real family and that he was abandoned at 8 years old by them....... Oh my.

So I decided there and then to take the high road and tell Luke the truth. He has a year of language under his belt and has been here with us for a year. So Tom and I proceeded to tell him that he was found (notice I did not say abandoned) at 8 months old. He called me a liar and got very upset with me. He said, "fine then where are the pictures of me at the orphanage as a baby". To that he is right and it is mind blowing but there are none. I think he wasn't paper ready until about 6 or 7 years old to be adopted, at least that is my guess.  So I got out his paperwork and interpreted his medical file about when he was found at 8 months old and what he weighed and how he did. Then I interpreted his next evaluation at 10 months old and then again one at 7 (nothing between 10 months old and 7 years old). He seemed devastated but then wanted to know what else the paper said. He loved hearing about his development, about his learning to do different things, his height and weight and how many teeth he had. Over all Luke was crushed beyond crushed but handled it with such dignity and grace that I knew I had to suck it up and not cry all over him like I felt like doing.  It was NOT easy. Luke took a few moments to stare at his medicals and then pushed them all aside got up and said I am going to go play.. He walked away then came right back and said "Mom was Elias found when he was a baby too?" I said "Yes at 8 months old just like you" He said "oh Poor Elias that makes me so sad for him, I am going to have to show him a lot of love". Then he hugged me and said he loved me and went off and played. I am sure this conversation is far from over, that someday Luke will want to know more and wonder more, but for now he is happy that we chose to tell him the truth and he did thank me for not lying to him. He told me the ladies in pink told him that the people that dropped him off at 8 years old were his mom and dad. I told him they and YOU didn't know sign language and you had no language, so how could they possibly explain what a foster family was... he just nodded and said "true".

This boy has wisdom beyond his years. His heart has so much love in it that it is a wonder it doesn't burst sometimes. God has special plans for Luke, of this I am sure. Lord I Thank you for the privilege of being Luke's momma. for giving me the courage to tell him the truth in a time when I wanted to run and hide for the hills. For giving me the words to tell Luke in a way that would show love and care. For giving Luke the heart and mind and sign language to be able to understand. Lord protect my boy as the questions keep coming!

LUKE You first came to us in an envelope With letters, forms and such Just two tiny little pictures With nothing warm to touch. You grew in our imagination In our hearts and in our minds. You brought us greater joy Than we ever thought we'd find. A phone call started labor pains Which lasted 'til we met Strangers brought together A day we won't forget. You bloomed as you were planned In our hearts, our lives, our home. Our child of chance, of plan, of will You're now our very own Author Unknown