Monday, January 24, 2011
Benifit Dinner...
Hey all... I am super excited to announce that NLO is doing a benefit dinner to help bring home Colfax's Caylene and Craig Knox's little ones!!! It is on Feb 12th at the SEL event center in Pullman. Tickets are ONLY $25 and it includes a silent auction, live auction, entertainment, dinner and child care is INCLUDED!! Your money is going to a GREAT cause and it will be a fun night out with the honey for valentines day and you wont have to worry about finding a sitter. I have tickets to sell so please email me at ddespresso@live.com or comment me at this post and we can get you a ticket. Silent auction opens at 5:30 and dinner is served at 7pm. DON'T MISS OUT!!! please help us bring these kids HOME!!
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
I know, I know....
So... it has been forever and I am really sorry!! We have some unfortunate news but news none the less. We have been declined for our adoption agency. Not once but twice!! I have been sick about it for months now and have finally come to the realization that this is not the lords way for saying NO, he is just telling us not right now! I don't know if it is because our little one is not ready for us yet or if the big guy upstairs wants us to do a little more growing up and preparing first. Regardless of why he has chosen a "Not Right Now" for us is not the problem, the problem is...where do we go from here?
Our first agency we applied with declined us because we were too young. I wish they would have spoken with us and saw where we were in our lives and not just looked at our birth dates but that is the past and i have got to move forward. So we did, we applied with another agency. We were pre-approved and began our process. About two weeks into it, we began to dig into our financial EVERYTHING. I knew that was part of it but didn't realize how in depth they wanted to go. We were shortly denied because of me! :( I have been self-employed since i was 18. Some would think that was admiral but most financial institutions just frown upon it.
Right out of High School, I knew that i wanted to work for myself and NO ONE else. I began diving into direct sales. Started with pampered chef and then Tupperware and did not find the satisfaction i was looking for. I was successful, as some have said "I can sell ice to a penguin." but i have NO passion for the product. That's when i found coffee!!! AHHHHH!!! COFFEE!!
I loved my job as a Batista so at the ripe age of only 20, my then-boyfriend (now-husband) and I bought the little coffee shop i have been working at for the last 2 years. GREAT- we were local business owners. However, financially it put us in massive DEBT. Starting a business and self operating is not a expense-free adventure. Years later, we started our family and had kolby. With all the complications and long hospital stays we racked up a little (LOT) more debt.
Than, i found my real passion. JEWELRY! my good friend from grade school introduced me into a direct sale business called Premier Designs. It was a light at the end of your debt tunnel! I exploded into the business and began making more money than i ever imagined i could. The most money i knew one could make LEGALLY :). Not only was the money coming in but i was having SO MUCH FUN!! (caps can not capture the level of fun and excitement this new job brought to my life.)
However, this was another self-employed business and because the money is not always consistent and worry by the adoption agency. We don't have the FULL funds available to pay for our adoption but we figured we would begin and leave the rest up to God. As we needed the money, we trusted that the lord would provide. The adoption agency told us we had 30 days to eliminate our debt by 90%. Well, with the coffee stand alone that was going to be over $40,000 in 30 days NO WAY!!
That is when we entered what we are calling PLAN B :) Since we receive the 30 days notice and new it would take a miracle like winning the lottery but having not ever bought a ticket we thought that was a pretty big stretch. So.... I got a job. A job that is NOT self employed but that i am able to do without having to put Kolby in daycare. I refuse to pay someone else to raise my child and plus... I want to to that! I was made to be a mom, and if you ask me I am a pretty darn good one. So now I am a Radio Personality on MyRadio 102.5. I love it! I get paid to talk!!! :)
My days now consist of 4am alarm clocks, 3 hours at the Radio Station (while my husband and son are sleeping), entire days with kolby while we run around and take care of the coffee stand, every Thursday Kolby and I go to wok at the coffee stand for 3 hours to check up on customers, and when Dadda gets home in the evenings, I go to work (a.k.a. PARTY) and sell the jewelry I love!!
Our plan is to save, save, save, save!!! We want to have a hefty sum of money saved in a savings account just for our little boy. That way when we apply next we will pass with flying colors. So now that we are saving, how are you going to continue our adventure??? Well.... No Longer Orphans. We are going to assist with whatever we can to help other families bring there children home while we work on getting our little boy home. The first event is the Valentine Dinner. It is on Feb 12, silent auction starts at 5:30 and dinner will be served at 7pm. A seat is only $25 and it is at the SEL event center in Pullman. If you want to go and would like to sit with me, please contact me at ddespresso@live.com and I will get you hooked up with a ticket.
Thank you so much for all your support and love!!! We will not go down without a fight and our little one is somewhere out there and we have every intention of bringing him home one way or another!! :)
With love-
Heidi, Jason and Kolby
Our first agency we applied with declined us because we were too young. I wish they would have spoken with us and saw where we were in our lives and not just looked at our birth dates but that is the past and i have got to move forward. So we did, we applied with another agency. We were pre-approved and began our process. About two weeks into it, we began to dig into our financial EVERYTHING. I knew that was part of it but didn't realize how in depth they wanted to go. We were shortly denied because of me! :( I have been self-employed since i was 18. Some would think that was admiral but most financial institutions just frown upon it.
Right out of High School, I knew that i wanted to work for myself and NO ONE else. I began diving into direct sales. Started with pampered chef and then Tupperware and did not find the satisfaction i was looking for. I was successful, as some have said "I can sell ice to a penguin." but i have NO passion for the product. That's when i found coffee!!! AHHHHH!!! COFFEE!!
I loved my job as a Batista so at the ripe age of only 20, my then-boyfriend (now-husband) and I bought the little coffee shop i have been working at for the last 2 years. GREAT- we were local business owners. However, financially it put us in massive DEBT. Starting a business and self operating is not a expense-free adventure. Years later, we started our family and had kolby. With all the complications and long hospital stays we racked up a little (LOT) more debt.
Than, i found my real passion. JEWELRY! my good friend from grade school introduced me into a direct sale business called Premier Designs. It was a light at the end of your debt tunnel! I exploded into the business and began making more money than i ever imagined i could. The most money i knew one could make LEGALLY :). Not only was the money coming in but i was having SO MUCH FUN!! (caps can not capture the level of fun and excitement this new job brought to my life.)
However, this was another self-employed business and because the money is not always consistent and worry by the adoption agency. We don't have the FULL funds available to pay for our adoption but we figured we would begin and leave the rest up to God. As we needed the money, we trusted that the lord would provide. The adoption agency told us we had 30 days to eliminate our debt by 90%. Well, with the coffee stand alone that was going to be over $40,000 in 30 days NO WAY!!
That is when we entered what we are calling PLAN B :) Since we receive the 30 days notice and new it would take a miracle like winning the lottery but having not ever bought a ticket we thought that was a pretty big stretch. So.... I got a job. A job that is NOT self employed but that i am able to do without having to put Kolby in daycare. I refuse to pay someone else to raise my child and plus... I want to to that! I was made to be a mom, and if you ask me I am a pretty darn good one. So now I am a Radio Personality on MyRadio 102.5. I love it! I get paid to talk!!! :)
My days now consist of 4am alarm clocks, 3 hours at the Radio Station (while my husband and son are sleeping), entire days with kolby while we run around and take care of the coffee stand, every Thursday Kolby and I go to wok at the coffee stand for 3 hours to check up on customers, and when Dadda gets home in the evenings, I go to work (a.k.a. PARTY) and sell the jewelry I love!!
Our plan is to save, save, save, save!!! We want to have a hefty sum of money saved in a savings account just for our little boy. That way when we apply next we will pass with flying colors. So now that we are saving, how are you going to continue our adventure??? Well.... No Longer Orphans. We are going to assist with whatever we can to help other families bring there children home while we work on getting our little boy home. The first event is the Valentine Dinner. It is on Feb 12, silent auction starts at 5:30 and dinner will be served at 7pm. A seat is only $25 and it is at the SEL event center in Pullman. If you want to go and would like to sit with me, please contact me at ddespresso@live.com and I will get you hooked up with a ticket.
Thank you so much for all your support and love!!! We will not go down without a fight and our little one is somewhere out there and we have every intention of bringing him home one way or another!! :)
With love-
Heidi, Jason and Kolby
Monday, October 4, 2010
PAPERWORK...
Sorry it has been so long since our last post.... busy busy busy!! We have been slowly chipping away at your paperwork. It seems so easy but yet so time consuming. We are waiting to hear from AGCI about our financial worksheet and then we will be able to get started on our Home Study process. Step by step we are slowly moving. Our goal is to have all our paperwork and travel done in less than a year. That is a big hope but we are going to try to stay optimistic. Post again soon... :)
Friday, September 17, 2010
Latah Fair...
I am here at the latah county fair. I am selling Premier Designs Jewelry and what is left of my Tupperware Inventory. Most everything is marked down 75%... all the proceeds will go to help finance our adoption! Thank you all for your support. We truly appreciate it!! I have TONS of information about NO LONGER ORPHANS here as well. Please come down. We are at the Fair Grounds in Moscow, ID. See you all soon!
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Palouse Empire Fair...
So... I sold my Tupperware Inventory at the Palouse Empire Fair with all proceeds going to help us finance our adoption. I ended up with a total of $615 in sales!!! So very exciting!! Thank you all for coming out and showing your unbelievable support. I can not even begin to explain how very blessed we are. I am constantly amazed at what wonderful people can be! THANK YOU THANK YOU!!
We will be at the Latah County Fair in Moscow on Thursday-Sunday this week with the rest of my Tupperware inventory and all my Premier Designs jewelry. I will also have information about No Longer Orphans so PLEASE come out and see us! LOTS OF LOVE!! :)
Also, THANK YOU so much for all the wonderful FUNDRAISING ideas. We appreciate them so much!
We will be at the Latah County Fair in Moscow on Thursday-Sunday this week with the rest of my Tupperware inventory and all my Premier Designs jewelry. I will also have information about No Longer Orphans so PLEASE come out and see us! LOTS OF LOVE!! :)
Also, THANK YOU so much for all the wonderful FUNDRAISING ideas. We appreciate them so much!
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Come out and See us...
Hey everyone- just wanted to let everyone know that I will be at the Whitman County Fair in Colfax WA on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday ALL DAY! I will be there selling ALL my Tupperware inventory at super low prices with ALL proceeds going to finance the adoption. Also, No Longer Orphans will be there so please come out and support us, if nothing else PLEASE come and learn more about the amazing nonprofit organization No Longer Orphans! Hope to see you all there!! LOVE!!!
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
A New Beginning...
We received our paperwork from our Home Study agency. They are located in Boise but have a rep in Lewiston that will be working with us. It was another set of paperwork to fill out but we are so excited to get the home study process started. The agency we are using is A New Beginning. They say that it normally takes about 2 to 4 months to complete the process, let’s hope we can get it done as soon as possible!!!
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