Sorry it's been a while since I've updated the blog! Both interview #3 and #4 came and went without much to them. The third interview our social worker came to our house for literally 15 minutes for us to sign a couple of forms... which kind of was sucky because I had the house clean head to toe for the second time at that point only for her to be at our kitchen table for 15 minutes...oh well, it was nice to have a clean house :) Then the 4th interview came and that was our final interview where C (our social worker) did a walk through of our house to make sure we had everything we needed for optimum safety in our house. There are a few things we'll eventually need to take care of (such as locking the cleaning products that are under the sinks)...but we currently have carbon monoxide dectors on every floor of the house as well as in the future nursery and in our bedroom. We also have 2 fire extinguishers and a fire escape ladder in the future nursery. We are as safety prepared as we can be and now just waiting for C to write up the home study. If everything goes according to plan, we will be on the waiting list on or before July 4!! It's so exciting knowing that we are almost done with this step and will just be waiting to be picked by expectant birth parents!!
We are working on our big garage sale July 13-15. Our hope is to raise $1,000 OR MORE during this garage sale that will go directly towards our adoption costs...so if any of you have items to donate, want to help out with the garage sale, or even come on those dates, we would love it! We need to get more items to sell in order to make getting $1,000 even possible. Ideally, we'd love to get 10% of our total adoption costs, so we would need to get $2,800...but I think we would be completely floored if we got $1,000 :) We'd love it if you partnered with us to reach our goal!
That's it for now. We are currently trying to figure out how to pay for our adoption so fundraisers, grants, and loans are currently being researched. We would love it if we could earn/get enough money without having to get a loan, but we will do it if that's what it comes down...since we are on our way of getting out of debt, it's hard to commit to going into more debt--but we will gladly do it if it means we get to have our little one home with us one day!
We hope that you are all having a great weekend!
