Thursday, September 11, 2014

Update

Well hello there! I just realized I hadn't posted for a bit too long. I guess this can speak to the level of busyness happening in our home! So thought I would do a quick update.....

Adoption Process - We are still working away on our home study paperwork and studying. We are about halfway through the reading requirements to meet our 10 hours of training. I have completed The Open Adoption book by Bruce Rappaport. I highly recommend this even if you aren't adopting yourself. It corrects a lot of the misconceptions behind adoption, especially open adoption. If you are supporting a family member or friend through their adoption process, give it a read! It'll really help you know how to best support them.

Now I'm working on the Whole Life Adoption Book and Chris is working on Inside Transracial Adoption! We will update on those books when we finish them!





As for the paperwork, we have our background checks and fingerprinting completed. We are about finished with our individual autobiographies and present life sketch stories. Once those are done, we have to complete a physical with our doctor and send everything in! We have all our references letters done as well. We attend one other mandatory training in October and that completes the training portion.

Fundraising:

We have now completed 3 yard sales and a Cinnadopt bake sale fundraiser (in less than 2 months! WHEW no wonder I'm tired!) Between these events and donations via the Paypal link on the blog we have raised a little over $4000!!! We are so blown away by how generous people have been to us. We have received so many donations of items to sell and even just cash. SO blessed and in awe of how this is all working. So a HUGE thank you to those who have helped in one way or another. I don't know how I'll ever be able to thank you all enough! (baby snuggles someday maybe?) Next up, my friend Jenni will be hosting a Missing Piece fundraiser so look for that on a future post!

House Remodel:

We finally were able to get our roof replaced (thank you to those that helped!) so now our house is looking much better. Next we are working on finishing up the trim and rearranging rooms to begin setting up the nursery! We purchased a cute crib off Craigslist so things are coming together.

That's about all that's going on in our world. So much excitement and wonderful things to look forward too!

Have a great week everyone!

Kristen