Hey, friends!! The Christmas shopping season is almost here...I absolutely cannot believe this year has gone by SO INCREDIBLY FAST!! It's been quite the year. November 1 - January 1 is my favorite time of year...gearing up for Thanksgiving celebrations, quality time with family, no school for a week, and then whipping right into the Christmas season with hot chocolate, snowmen, Christmas trees, Christmas carols and best of all, remembering and celebrating the birth of Christ.
This year, while you're shopping online for Black Friday and Cyber-Monday deals - and throughout 2014! - you can shop through a couple of links to the right of my blog and a portion of your purchases goes back into our adoption fund...A WIN/WIN!!
I think most of us are familiar with the amazing deals through Amazon for just about any product you can think of, so if you click on the Amazon button to the right, you'll be immediately shopping under our Amazon Associates heading...and then you simply shop as normal! We get email alerts letting us know that purchases have been made and how much has been added to our account!
I only recently learned of the PureCharity organization a few months ago. When you create an account with PureCharity (totally FREE!) and install their plug-in to your browser (free and easy!), it will show up anytime you shop online through a PureCharity supported store. The logo will simply appear in the top right corner of your screen, it looks like this...
...you click on it, it reloads the page and you shop! A portion of your purchases go back into your account and you can pick what charity, organization, or family you wish to support. There are TONS of great organizations to choose from, but we would be especially honored if you chose our family! You simply find us on there through their search button or come here and click on our button to go straight to our page! Then you choose our family to send your donation to. All donations are sent directly to our adoption agency, Lifeline Children Services. Pure Charity works with a lot of major retailers such as Apple, Target, Wal-Mart, Priceline, Gap, Forever 21, Pier 1, Bass Pro, Babies R Us...oh my goodness, just looking through the list makes me so excited! It even has a "shop local" option so you can help support local businesses in your area and our adoption at the same time!!
These are simple and great ways to make the most of your Christmas shopping this year!! We are praying hard that this will be the last year we spend Christmas without our son! Your purchases through our links will help to cover our travel costs to Colombia and our time spent there on things like hotel accommodations for 6-8 weeks, food, translators, in-country attorneys and paperwork, and our flights HOME!!
These links will be available on my blog until our adoption is funded, so please come back through here to shop Amazon or chose us through Pure Charity for any and all online shopping!
Please share this link with your friends and family to help us spread the word about these great ways to support our adoption during the holiday season. You can share by clicking any of the social media buttons at the bottom of this post or sharing my link from Facebook.
If you share it, shoot me an email at
jmalcoleman at gmail dot com or
a Facebook message or
comment here or
comment on my Facebook post
and on December 3 (the Tuesday after Thanksgiving) I'll pick a winner for a $10 iTunes gift card!
(Please be sure and leave an email address or a way to contact you if you win)
Happy Shopping!!
PS - We will also be starting an Apparent Project soon as they come in the mail. I canNOT wait to tell you more about this amazing ministry that helps sustain families in Haiti, preventing children from becoming orphans, and also helps adoptive families! More to come next week!
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