Where I am now?

I started my journey a few months ago around January and had no idea what someone goes through with adoption, especially when you are doing it as a single parent. It took me awhile to find AND be comfortable with a HomeStudy Agency and Adoption Agnecy. Yes, I knew adoption was also expensive but that is another beast to overcome. So basically this is where I am:

* Approved Home Study complete and in hand? CHECK!
* Applied to Adoption Agency? CHECK
* Applied to Referral Agency? CHECK
* Applied to Grants and Loans? CHECK! CHECK! CHECK!
* Dear First Mother Letter and Profile complete? - Currently being worked on. After many weeks of trying to do it myself, I became too frustrated and decided to pay someone to do it for me.
* Finding alternative ways to finance the adoption? - Well I contacted a couple of companies to send me information to start fundraising with them. One is a really neat idea to sell Lip Balm and the other would be T-Shirts. I am especially glad that I found the T-Shirt site because I would much rather make a little less profit to avoid having to handle the shipping and ordering myself. I just do not have the time to do everything since I am single. I am just picking my battles and resourcing out what I can.

Now is just the waiting game. Waiting for my profile to be complete. Waiting for the loans and grants that I applied to tell me if I have been approved. Waiting for the companies to get back with me about the fundraisers. Most importantly, waiting for a First Mother to choose me. Lots of waiting, it is a good thing that I am patient.

Also, I found this site called www.chipin.com here you are able to add a donation counter to your website. It is linked to paypal, which makes it easier to use on both sides. I will be keeping that up along with other links to any fundraising ideas I establish.