A kid in need...

Remember that great musical I did a few years back called R.R.R.E.D.? And that frickin' killer actor, Patrick Livingston, who played G.J.? Remember how you just fell in love with him and thought he was just the best?

Well, Patrick stepped away from acting. Why? Because he and his wife decided to adopt a beautiful little baby girl named Daisy, a little girl who needed them desperately.

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You can catch up with all they've been up to at http://patrickandlindsayliv.blogspot.com/.

I received an email from Patrick and Lindsay this weekend. Daisy's birthmom has decided to give Daisy's older, full blooded biological sibling up for adoption. Patrick and Lindsay would love to welcome her into their family and reunite these sisters.

Unfortunately, this came out of the blue and they need about $6,000 to cover the adoption and legal fees.

Won't you consider giving? You can donate through their blog at http://patrickandlindsayliv.blogspot.com.

I know sometimes it's a little hinky to give money to people you don't know, so I'm also going to be offering this gift with purchase/pledge drive challenge.

The Woodcutter is featured this week on the Reader Views newletter, which means my sales will be up. I hereby pledge to donate all net profits from my book sales this week, and will match said profits dollar for dollar.

So if you don't feel like plunking down cash, how about buying a book?

The Woodcutter
CreateSpace Paperback (slower shipping, but max profit)
Amazon Paperback
Amazon E-Book

It's for a good cause. A really adorabe melt your brain with the cuteness cause.

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Seriously.

Doesn't a kid this great deserve to be reunited with her sister?


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Dear family and friends,

As you all know, we have been immeasurably blessed over the last year and a half by our amazing Daisy. Our experience of adopting Daisy was remarkable and happened both very slowly and very quickly! We met with our first adoption agency in early 2008, and waited for nearly two years for our baby to come. She never did. That was the slow part. In December, 2009, we got proactive, and went out and found a new agency. We were matched with Gail, Daisy's birthmother, in mid-January 2010, and Daisy was born five weeks later, on February 22, 2010. We took our daughter home from the hospital on February 24, spent a few weeks with family in Utah, and then flew back to our little home in New Jersey. Every moment since then has been a treasure; we simply cannot imagine our lives without this incredible girl.

About a month ago, Patrick had a feeling that he should stop into our adoption agency to initiate the process of another adoption. We had discussed our desire to add to our little family, and, since our first adoption took nearly two years to complete, we thought we would have plenty of time to save more money, prepare our home, etc. We should have known better! Two weeks ago, our agency worker contacted us about an "opportunity" -- Daisy's birthmother, had decided to place her other daughter, Daisy's full biological sibling, for adoption, and the agency wanted to know if we would be interested.

We were ecstatic. We have often thought about Daisy's sister (who is 2 1/2 years old, just 14 months older than Daisy), and wished they could know one another. Now we have the absolutely amazing opportunity for Daisy to not only know her sister, but play with her, grow up with her, and be with her always. When we spoke to Gail about this opportunity to welcome Daisy's sister into our family, she was overjoyed that we would be the family to raise these girls together. Gail would like to place on July 17, 2011, which, as you can imagine, is sooner than we were expecting when Patrick went into the agency last month!

Since this situation has taken us by surprise, we are not quite financially ready to take advantage of the opportunity. We have saved a large portion of the money we will need to complete the adoption itself, but we thought we would have several months to save up the rest. And so, humbly, we come to you. We realize that many of you are in financially tight situations yourselves, but hope that, if you can, you will help us bring Daisy's sister home. Currently, we are a little more than $6,000 short. Any kind of monetary donation, no matter how small, will help us build our forever family.

We already feel like this little girl is part of our family, and we have no doubt that she was meant to be in our home. Gail is truly an inspiring woman, and we have the utmost respect for her desire to make a better life for her entire family (of which we are now a part), and we will move mountains to make this happen. We are so thankful for all of you and for your support in this endeavor.

You can catch up on our family at our blog: http://patrickandlindsayliv.blogspot.com. You can donate through our blog by clicking on the button in the upper right corner.

We would have loved to have been able to complete this adoption without asking you all for financial help, but we simply are unable to. We will do anything to make this adoption happen; at this point, that includes reaching out to you! If you know of anyone else who may be interested in helping us bring our daughter home, please let us know or forward this email to them.

Thanks so much to those of you that are able to help make this adoption possible.

Love,
Patrick, Lindsay, and Daisy Livingston