Hannah and I made the costume together. She wanted to be a donut last year too, which was all her idea. This year it was nice to see that for the most part, Hannah was able to keep up with her friends, which required quite a bit of running! Just thinking back to last year when she was so frustrated that she was so tired and always behind everyone, it was nice to see that this year she is stronger. She did have to take a couple breaks, but it didn't seem to bother her that much. Along the way we seem to have picked up this guy.....
I just couldn't help it, walking by her and some other dogs that were all to be euthanized. They were from an animal rescue called Last Chance Animal Rescue Fund here on Long Island, www.lcarf.org/index.php She is a 4 month old beagle mix and at this time, we are just fostering her. She would be dog #3, and has to get along with the other two crazy dogs and the rest of our family. The boys were very interested in her when we came in, and she was very timid. All is going well, she is so well behaved and house broken too-at 4 months old. We are "still deciding."
We are still working on the Adopt a Family mission for Christmas this year. Take a look!
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CHRISTMAS ADOPTIONS
So far we have adopted 3 families for this holiday season, that's awesome! I wanted to provide a few other details on how it works.
A few people have asked me if they can adopt a family with others from their workplace or with other families. YES! If you have co-workers that would like to go in together to adopt a family, that would be great. Also, if you and another family (or others in your family) would like to get together to adopt a cancer family, that's wonderful also.
Another question posed was whether or not someone from out of town could participate in our Christmas adoptions. YES! It is probably more cost effective if you live out of town and want to help if you simply send funds to cover the cost of the gifts. I would be happy to do the shopping for the family. Anyone who knows Hannah knows that this won't be a problem for her, the girl loves to shop! If you would prefer to purchase gifts and send them, that can also be done (although the gifts will have to be shipped here, but still workable!)
After you contact me to let me know you would like a family for adoption, I will contact the hospital to request a family in need. I ask them for names of patient, siblings and parents; ages of all children, sizes of all children and any specific wishes and interests of the family. When all information is received I will pass that along to you. Gifts can then be purchased, wrapped and tagged. The gifts are dropped off to me at my house (or if you live closer to the hospital, they will go directly there). We will take all of the gifts into the hospital on December 15th. The hospital handles the delivery of the gifts to the family. We leave it up to the family to decide if they would like the children to know the gifts are from "Santa" or from the parents, or otherwise. Some families with small children may not want them to know they are being "adopted" for Christmas.
I hope that clears up some questions, but please let me know if there is something I did not answer.
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