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Are we ready, No, are we willing YES!

 These last couple of weeks have been super chaotic for our family. We cannot begin to thank everyone enough for the items that were donated for our adoption YardSale we held a couple weeks ago. Thank you everyone who helped and everyone who came to shop! The yard sale was an amazing success! in our previous blog post we stated  we wanted to save $7000 as our first goal before pursuing the next steps in our adoption process. We are  humbled to announce that we have reached that goal and beyond of $7000  due to the unbelievably generous people who donated items for our yard sale as well as money towards our adoption the last couple of weeks. Since our yard sale we have completed our paperwork for the agency that we have decided to go with. We are sending all of the paperwork off this weekend to the agency. Once the agency officially accepts us as their clients we will begin our homestudy and our process of becoming live to any birthmothers looking for homes for their ...

where we are....

One thing we have realized since our very first ever blog post and our last blog post, about adopting, is that it is more difficult to update our blog with two kids, both of us working, and our crazy life. However, there have been a couple new things happen with our adoption process since our last blog post and we wanted to let y’all know. One of them being we have chosen to go with a different agency than previously posted about. We have done a lot of praying and a lot of talking.  As we stated in our last blog post,  we are almost debt free. It is an amazing feeling and we really do not want to accumulate a whole lot more unless it is necessary. With that being said, We have come to the decision that we would like to save AT THE VERY LEAST $7,000 cash just for our adoption. after we get that money, we will apply with this new agency we feel best suites us...their fee is $4,000. After that is complete, our home study will begin. That process is $2,500. Once both those things ...