Tune into CBS on Tuesday, December 23
8 p.m. EST/PST or 7 p.m. CST/MST
For the 10th Annual A Home for the Holidays Special
Celebrating Foster Care Adoption!
Don’t miss this heartwarming one-hour television show!
Celebrity performers will share the stage with extraordinary American families who share their joy and their stories of foster care adoption.
This year’s show features Faith Hill and includes Tim McGraw, Jamie Foxx, Melissa Etheridge, Gavin Rossdale, Keyshia Cole, Martin Short, Kristen Chenoweth and a host of others.
There are currently half a million children in foster care in the United States; 129,000 of these children are available for adoption. Each year, A Home for the Holidays raises national awareness about this important social issue and connects waiting children with potential adoptive families.
The show is a joint project of CBS, the Children’s Action Network, Wendy’s International, Triage Productions, Goldsmith Entertainment and the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.
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I’m excited to pass along this terrific program to you, made possible by Jockey (yes, the underwear company - lol). They are working with families who adopted through foster care to provide them with post-adoption support such as respite and parent support groups. As you know, we adopted three children though foster care and often gripe on this blog about the lack of services offered to those of us who have adopted foster children.
Here’s some information from their website:
Jockey Being Family (TM) is Jockey’s corporate citizenship initiative dedicated to strengthening adoptive families for successful futures. Jockey launched Jockey Being Family (TM) in 2005. Jockey hopes to lead the charge in raising awareness of the need for expanding the availability of post-adoption services to make a difference in the lives of adoptive families. Adoption is a lifelong journey. Jockey’s goal is to provide support to adoptive families along the road, to help ensure that these adoptive families can truly be “forever families.”
Jockey International is a privately-held, family-owned, Midwest company and our brand values have long reflected a genuine commitment to families. Family and children have always been important to Jockey and adoption is an issue close to the hearts of our employees.
After months of research and careful consideration of issues where Jockey could make a significant impact on American families, we learned that post-adoption services support and resources for parents and children after the adoptions are legally finalized were scarce. Jockey also learned that no corporation was championing this important area of adoption. We realized that this was where Jockey could make the largest, most targeted impact.
We believe that by strengthening adoptive families, we can help ensure permanence for children who are awaiting a “forever family.” As a brand and company, Jockey is committed to satisfying the human need for comfort and we believe that helping families to stay strong is one of the best ways we can express and fulfill this belief.
Our mission is to engage employees in meaningful volunteer activities; raise awareness of the need for post-adoption services; and build recognition of Jockey’s corporate citizenship. Through partnerships we have developed with local and national nonprofit organizations, Jockey provides funding, employee volunteers and in-kind donations to support post-adoption services efforts and help build “forever families.”
You can help support adoption services with the purchase of this adorable bear for only $8.50. For each bear sold, Jockey will donate $3 to various adoption organizations.
I’m going to buy one for each of my kids.  You can also try to win one at Dories Diaries
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I had to share this picture of my dogs resting on both ends of the futon in our family room.
This is Mini in her favorite position:
This is TJ, in her favorite position:
I love that they’re both in the same position. LOL!! They’re both miniature poodles and are from the same litter.
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Here’s a few more pictures from Future World (it’s in Epcot) in Disney World. You can scroll down a few posts for the rest of them.
Jacqueline loved all the technology at Innoventions:
One by one, kids came through the sharks mouth and posed nicely while their parents took pictures. While I waited, with my camera ready, for my kids to come through I was hoping they would do more than just smile. Then who should come through the sharks mouth - my husband. LOL
Shawna & Jacqueline loved all the KidCot stations!
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