Letters are the best presents!

My birthday is 2 days before Valentine's day.  We don't really do gifts for these two days much and just go out to eat or a movie or such. 

This year I got the best presents on each day!  Wednesday (my birthday) I received a letter from Priyanga from India.  Then on Friday (Valentine's Day) I received a letter from Selemani  from Tanzania.  Both of those made my day and are better than any flower or chocolates.

I took someone's advice and took a picture of me holding the letter from Priyanga so that I could send it to her sometime showing just how happy I am to receive letters from her.  I'll try to do it with the other kids letters too but once pictures are on my camera, it takes forever for me to get them off of there! 

Make sure to write your sponsored kids letters when you get a chance.  I'm sure it lights up their day as much as it does ours.  This week I need to get around to doing my monthly handwritten letters for the kids. 

Happy Valentines Day!

I want to wish you all a Happy Valentine's Day!  Each year I send my sponsored kids Valentines (around December so they reach the kids by February).  I buy Valentines on clearance after the holiday is done so that I have them when December rolls around.  I buy these cute holographic Valentines with puppies and kittens for the girls, and cool cars for the boys.  I also found some cute bible verse cards with hearts on them too, as well as paper airplane Valentines for the boys.

I tell the kids how it is a holiday about love and how much we love them.

Today, my quote describing my sponsorship experience was posted on Compassion International's Facebook page so that was special that they picked me.  Here are my words in their cute graphic.




It is so true!  I will always love my sponsored kids from now until eternity. They are a part of our family and my hearth.

I wish them all a wonderful Valentine's day today and send them love all year long!


~ Graphic courtesy of the Compassion International Facebook page.

Cute Peru Girl That Needs a Sponsor

We love all our Compassion kids and today I found one with the same first name as our Flor from Peru:

Flor Esperanza Valencia Amaya
Birthday:  August 4, 2009 (so she is 4.5 years old)
She lives with her parents and there are two kids in the family.

If you would like to sponsor Flor, please click here


If you sponsor her, please let me know and I can try to take a small gift to her when we visit Peru in a few months.  Thanks so much.

Or if you would like to sponsor a different child from Peru (or any other country really), please click on the below link to be directed to the Compassion website.

Click here to sponsor a child

Peru kids that need sponsors!

While browsing on the Compassion site I came across some kids from Peru who need sponsors still. Our Peru kids hold a special spot in our heart as they are great letter writers (about every two months on schedule!). We are going to visit our Peru kids in May so I'd love to get some more Peru children sponsored before we go.

If you do sponsor one of the below kids, please let me know and if you want, I can take a small baggie with a gift for your child when we go to Peru (you can mail it to us).

Just click on the link by each child if you would like to sponsor them. Thanks so much!

Leydi 
She is 9 years old (looks much younger in the picture so she'll probably have an updated picture soon, or she might just look young for her age).
Birthday: March 16, 2004 

 Click here to sponsor Leydi

Fabricio

He is 5.5 years old and his birthday is June 28, 2008.  He is a cutie!

 

Click here to sponsor Fabricio 

Or to search for other children in Peru or around the world, click here 

Going to Peru to Visit our 3 Sponsored Kids!

In May we will be traveling to Peru with a group trip for Compassion International. On this trip we will get the opportunity to see several Compassion International projects to see the work they do with the kids, church, families, etc. It will be a wonderful experience, and best of all we will get to spend the day with our 3 kids from Peru (2 sponsored and 1 correspondence child). They will get the opportunity to travel to Lima to meet us there for child visit day. Yessica and Said each live about a 14 hour drive away from Lima (not sure if they will fly them there or take a really long bus ride), but Flor lives pretty close to Lima so it won't be far for her. The last couple of letters Yessica has said "See you soon" at the end of the letter (probably meaning that she'd write again soon). Little does she know that this will be a reality soon! And a year ago Said mentioned his goal would be to someday get to go to Lima....well that is coming true now too! I can't wait to make these 3 kids days by visiting them, hugging them, and letting them know how special and loved they are.