"We're launching this August".

You know that song from The Sound of Music that goes "Wonder of wonder, miracles of miracles", that keeps going through my head right now. Here's what happened.After talking to someone from the Workers Right's Consortium, we found out about a conference on ethically responsible buying that was happening in Philadelphia on Thursday and Friday. We also found out it was expensive (about $1,495 each). I decided to call the headquarters in the UK and see if they would let us in for free. We prayed and asked God if he wanted us to go, that he would let us in. And somehow, the woman at the front seemed almost blinded by the fact that we didn't pay for it, and assigned us our badges like we were regular $3,000 attendees.

Imagine us, 10am on Thursday morning, printing out our pathetic little business cards on photo paper, and trying to throw together outfits, trying to get Emmett to watch TV. Our house became an office, every room in it. And as it turned out, Mike went for most of it, I went for some of it, and people like Coke, Nordstrom, the US Govt. and other big shot ethical people were there. But we talked to them and now they know who we are.

It's 6:42am and I still feel sick (after sleeping all day yesterday), but well enough to want to go outside. It's a beautiful day.