New Year

I have not posted since last year!
Nothing has happened. We are still waiting to get on the official waiting list.
The agency contacted me back in January and told me that they have NO idea when the referral will be coming. Compared to 2006 they have received 50% less referrals then in 2007. That means our wait can be as long as one more year or MORE!!??!!

The art auction will be in June, received couple of donations ( Thanks Beth for your help!) but there is still LOT more work that needs to be done..........

Invitations

I sent out the invites for the Auction via email for a whole lot of Artists. I hope it will generates some interest. I just learned that the Humane Society's Auction (which to we always donate one of our own piece) will be on April 26th. Bummer. I think ours will be a couple days earlier then that. Good thing I have not picked a date yet, because that would have been my choice as well. The last Saturday in April.
I still hope some Artists will be interested in our cause as well. If the event will be successful I would like to hold it every year to help more families and kids in need....

I am really lethargic today. Beth is in the hospital, having gall bladder surgery tomorrow and on Monday. Some procedure tomorrow, removal on Monday. Hope she will be OK.

I am seriosuly doubting that we will fundraise enough money to cover the country mandatory donation part...Some other countries are only asking $3000.00!!! Why is this a lot more??

Art auction

I am planning an art auction to fund raise some of the high adoption fees. There will be a $22.000,00 (approx.) payment at time of the referral so we desperately need help.
I got the go from the JCC, we can use their Gallery after the end of our exhibit in April of 2008.
I think the art auction was a good idea - Thank you Donna, my friend!!!!- hopefully I can get some other artist on board and maybe they can donate a piece to us. Mickey, who is a photographer already offered me her work. Thank you!
Hopefully it will work out.

Classes

We required to take 10 hours of 'adoption' training. Our soc. worker gave me the website and I completed 8 of them this weekend. 2 more hours to go!
I am happy we could do it online because the first HS agency wanted us to go to their place for training and they were 1.5 hrs away from us so this worked out perfectly.
Marci we love you already, you probably have not even born yet!

Home Study

I finally sent our pre appl. to our agency, AIAA and picked a home study agency.
We worked on our auto biography last night and I think it is pretty much finished. I will email it to our social worker tonight so she can schedule our first visit!
I hope the process will pick up from January as we are going to Hungary in a month.

I.

2007 Halloween

We have finally decided a couple of weeks ago on the country, Korea!!! It was not easy. Now we just have to save the money we need to bring our baby boy home!
We picked our agency and ready to start...............