CHANGE a life

When my sweet sister-in-love found out about our adoption, she began saving her change. She got her kids in on it and over the last few months have been saving any spare change they had in a container labeled "For our new cousin".  At Christmas my little niece and nephew gave me the container filled with all of the change. Along with the change was the cutest little headband for our baby girl...the first present we have received for her and the first bow to ever enter our house, haha! 

This gift was so emotional for me. I didnt care if the change they had collected amounted to five dollars. There was just something so sweet about all of those pennies, quarters, and dimes. To know that everytime they had put money in our container, they had thought of their new cousin. To know that every penny was put there purposefully for her. These are the things that make this journey so sweet. The thoughtfulness of our family and friends. 

As we sat at the kitchen table counting the change and putting them into money rolls, my sister-in-love told me that she wanted others to be a part of this and that she would like to send out letters to our friends and family asking them to start saving their change for the next few months. Along with the letter is a bag you can place somewhere for you to remember to drop your spare change in. Some of you have received the letter and bag in the past few days. If you have not, and would like to be a part of this, please let me know!

Like I said before, there is something so incredibly sweet to me about this. Even if your change amounts to a few dollars at the end of a few months, know that that few dollars means the world to us to know that you thought of our daughter each time you placed a penny in the bag. Those pennies will change her life!