Help for a Fellow Blogger

I am not as great with words as others are, so I am going to copy and paste a special request for a fellow Guatemama, Erin, who has been fostering her daughter in Guatemala for well over a year and has run into snag after snag to get her baby girl home. A new roadblock has just been put up and she needs our help. Please see a post by my friend, Andrea, to give this family a little help.

Here is the post from Andrea:

Hey all-

Most of you know Erin from our little blog community. If you've been following her story for the last year, you know she and her husband have been caught in one nightmare after another trying to get their gorgeous daughter home. They have uprooted their lives and moved to Guatemala, initially to foster. Through a turn of events that just takes too long to explain, Erin and John are stuck in Guatemala.

Recently, the Appeals Court revoked their approval from Family Court. They now have to meet with PGN in hopes they are let in, and their case is approved through that route. Although I do not know all the details, my guess is this is an uncertain move at BEST.

We NEED to help this family. All Erin and John want is to be A's parents. Since we can't go down and storm PGN, here's what we CAN do-

We can dig deep and help.

I know times are tough for everyone right now. But, Erin and John are living two lives-one in Guatemala, and one in the States. Now you can say they didn't HAVE to go down and live in another country. And that just because they chose to move means we don't have to help now that the case has gone terribly wrong.

You'd be wrong.

They made the choice to live in another country and FIGHT for their daughter. If given the same set of circumstances, I think most of us would do the same thing if we could. Erin and John are brave and wonderful parents for fighting for THEIR DAUGHTER. The bureaucracy of the Guatemala court system has let them down. It's let us ALL down.

So, please, PLEASE help us help this brave family.

For every donation you make, no matter how small (or how BIG!), you will be entered into a drawing for $60 worth of custom items directly FROM Erin. Either three ornaments or three dolls, or any combination of the two. You can even choose the fabric style! Now, you've all seen Erin's work. It's AMAZING. This is a great chance to not only help a fellow adoptive family, but to receive some incredibly beautiful things.

Donations can be made directly to Erin's paypal account. The address is erin stoy 77 at yahoo dot com (most of you know how to take out the spaces and replace the @ and .com parts). We will have this going from Sunday, February 25th to Friday, March 1st. Every donation made between now and then will be entered for the drawing! I will randomly pick a number on Saturday, March 2nd and the winner will be announced on the blog.

I am also asking everyone to post this request on their blogs. You can copy my post, or put your own. Either way, we MUST get the word out. Any help you can give is VERY appreciated!

Thank you everyone for digging deep and donating once again.

Bless you all!

Andrea