Robert and I received an excellent call from the adoption agency today!

Our Home Study file is missing only two more forms which they told us we can bring with us to our approval meeting. We will finally be approved that day, which we could call being "paper pregnant"! Once we are approved, the matching process will begin, and we will be moving along in the adoption journey. It's hard to believe we are finally on our way!

We first want to thank our friends and family that have been so supportive with the situation over the past few months. We love you for it, and couldn't get through this without you. We look forward to you experiencing the coming year with us, I'm sure it will be a roller coaster.

In preparation for all that is to come, a fund raising opportunity was given to us and we'd like to share it with you. I'm sure most of you have heard of the Chicken Soup For The Soul book series by now. They have a great and easy fund raiser and really support families that are going through the adoption process. They have a catalog of 50 books available for us to offer to you, which you can check out here:
Book Catalog

Each book sells for $15, plus $1 shipping. If you buy 3 or more books, you do not have to pay the shipping cost. (I checked several bookstores and most of these titles sell for $14.95 or more off the shelf). Christmas is coming and these would make excellent gifts for your friends and loved ones. If you want to help out, but are unable to purchase books, then we simply ask that you print out the catalog (if you don't have a printer, we can get one to you) and pass it around your school or workplace for us. We would greatly appreciate
it.

For those of you who are not local, you can also participate by e-mailing us the titles and quantity of books that you would like, along with your address for us to ship them to you. All orders must be to us by November 30th in order for the books to be received in time for Christmas.

Again, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for everything you have done, and continue to do, to support us in this venture.

Love
Alli