There’s no mistaking it, adoption is expensive. There are plenty of fees from everything like a homestudy to background checks, to coordination fees, document fees, country fees and travel. And there are plenty more I didn’t even mention. Right now, accommodating that number is proving to be daunting. So, here’s where I need your help. I need ideas on fundraising money for our adoption. Real, proven, genuine ideas to help this dream become a reality. Here are some of the ideas that have already been suggested: Grants and loans (which everyone wants so they are hard to get) Raffle Spaghetti Dinner with silent auction of donated items from local businesses Rummage Sale Babysitting/part time job What else can we do (and what…
I recently started a discussion on my Facebook adoption group (all of the members having adopted from Taiwan) about Sprinkles, and her recent desire to understand just how we ‘got her’ (those are her words not mine). We’ve been reading a book called Sweet Moon Baby at bedtime, an adoption tale centered on adopting a daughter from China. She enjoys the story, and so do I. We started with David Kirk’s Miss Spider, but I felt we needed something with a more ‘real’ focus. In this case the adoption of a child by parents instead of a spider by a beetle. The question I asked the group was in regard to how to have the discussion about her birth mother (a term that’s…
Everyday I spend a lot of time, whether I really know it or not, thinking about my phone. Or more specifically why it doesn’t ring or ping with an email I’ve been waiting for. It has been nearly a year since the idea first came into my heart that I really wanted another baby. When it first came, it was like I couldn’t breathe. I don’t know how many feel like that, I imagine most women who have the desire for children feel it at some point or another. If you glance at our timeline, you can click the link at the top of the page, you can see we didn’t officially start the process until August, and we’ve only been on our current…
