Introducing Our Global Puzzle Fundraiser!

 As I promised in my last post, here is our puzzle fundraiser! We put together one of my favorite puzzles on Mother's Day - the Global Puzzle with 600 pieces. It is still out on a table in our living room. Amazingly, Elijah has only partially trashed it twice. :-)  Why is this puzzle my favorite? Well, as a home schooler, I like it because it is educational.  The box boasts that your geography skills increase by 472% after doing this puzzle just once. I believe it! When I did this puzzle the first time a couple of years ago, I learned where Eritrea and Djibouti are. What? You don't know? Better get a puzzle for yourself! :-) (By the way they are north of Ethiopia, south of Egypt.)



The completed puzzle!

We also plan to carefully glue this puzzle together and try to hang it on a wall in our basement. We have many puzzles glued together already of different places around the world that Pat (or Pat and I) have visited. He has done most of his traveling for work. (He's been to the UK, Argentina, Korea, Czech Republic, Peru, Mexico, Italy, Costa Rica...those are the ones I remember. LOL) I thought it would be fun to put little stickers on for every place he's visited. We have to glue it carefully because the pieces are not interlocking, as they are the shapes of the countries. Cool, huh? 

Ok, now for the fundraiser part of it.  You have the opportunity to "buy a country" or "buy a state" for just $5! What a bargain, huh???  For each state or country piece you buy at $5 a piece, we will write your name on the back of the puzzle piece (or initials as some pieces are very small). NEW DIRECTIONS for "buying a country or state"!  Please use the white RR donation button on right, almost to the top on the sidebar. All donations are tax-deductible through Reece's Rainbow's Family Sponsorship Program and 100% will go towards bringing Jonathan home. Then, please email me at contentmentathome@gmail.com with your choices of states/countries. There is a link at the top of blog, right under the header, called "Global Puzzle Fundraiser".  If you click on that, it will show all the countries/states still available. We'll try to update it everyday. If a country is taken it will have a strike out through it.  If (by chance), all the countries sell, we will add names to the back of the ocean and border pieces.  Sound fun??? I hope so. Remember, if you love a certain country or state, act FAST! First come, first serve!  Have fun!!!



If you look closely, you can see that Mali in Africa and India are flipped upside down and already have names on them!  Anna and Isaac picked out a couple of their favorite countries. :-) They donated some of their birthday money towards getting Jonathan home. God has blessed us with some great kids!

If you are on Facebook, especially if you are not part of the RR family, I would love for you to share about our fundraiser, but more importantly, to raise more prayer support for us. The fundraiser will run either until we sell all the pieces or until someone's very special first birthday. :-) Thanks for your help!

And finally, THANK YOU SO MUCH for your help and support in bringing Jonathan home. We are so very, very grateful for each and every donation.

P.S. I know at least 2 other RR families are doing puzzle fundraisers with this same puzzle. I do not mean to copy them or try to distract from their fundraisers at all. We were going to do this fundraiser with Elijah, but never needed to. We were just too slow to get it up, plus I have no idea what else to do in the short amount of time we've had to do fundraisers. I hope everyone understands this. Thanks.