Photos I promised

Okay so a long time ago I promised some of the photos from our drop off a few months ago. Well here they are. It was quite a morning, you can read more about it here. Thanks to Mark (at least I think that is how he spells it) who works over at Kapiolani for taking these photos.

Here we are outside of the NICU doors waiting for the head nurse to come and welcome us in. Danya was being a bit shy, but she really did do pretty well.

Here we are posing with a couple of the nurses in the NICU with all the stuff piled in the wagon.

Today I ran to Walmart during Danya's nap, and just because it had AC and I was alone (John was home) I decided to wonder through the clearance toys (Christmas leftovers). I spotted a purple box and I knew right away that it was the snap n style dolls that we love. If you remember we brought one to a very sick little girl on the day of our drop off. The hospital staff member who was with us loved it too because it could be cleaned up so easily. So naturally I needed to see how much they were clearanced for, because if you know Walmart clearance like I do they are very rarely really clearanced, usually like 20% but they were 70% off, only 5.98 a doll.

Since I didn't have Danya with and I could wait in lines I went to the customer service center to talk about if they could donate them, never hurts to ask right? Well the manager who handles that, as you can imagine is a M-F employee so I decided to just buy them and see if anyone else would like to join me in this gift to sick toddlers, and kids. As you can see we've added a donate button on the side of our blog, and that money will go directly to Danya's gift project, or if you can spare even a dollar and just mail it that is great too. The store only had 8 and I took them all. I can't wait to give this small gift to the kids at the hospital.

Faith in Action

Last night as I was reading Danya her bedtime story we read the story of the widows oil. 1 Kings 4:1-7. Naturally we were reading from her kids Bible, but the truth still hit me. The widow was told by Elisha to gather empty jars from her neighbors and then once they were gathered to go inside and shut the door and pour oil from your own jar into these jars and sell them. What struck me was that she only had one chance. If she gathered just a few jars she wouldn't have been able pay her debts. But I have to believe she felt a little odd following the directions, thinking no way is this going to work. I know a little of her feeling. When I began this year my one goal was to beat last year's number. Now we have, but I still wish we could give soo much more.
This is what we have so far:
23 Newborn Onesies and Sleepers
15 Pair of newborn socks and booties
2 Preemie sleepers
3 Preemie Onesies
10 Micro preemie outfits (Wow didn't realize I had made that many)

Bringing our total up to 53 items. Yay! so now I am increasing our goal. I would love to see us get 150 items. That would far outgrow the containers I have purchased too. I feel very convicted that I didn't set my sights higher. I want to triple what we have.

For those of you in Hawaii, please mark your calendar. We will be having a BBQ and prayer service at our house on September 13th. It is grandparents day and since grandparents are the most giving people I know, we will be celebrating them while dedicating the gift. More details will be coming soon.