Yes, you read that right. We are adopting. Randy and I decided to adopt at the end of February. We are currently working on paper work for our home study. For those of you who don't know what that is...A home study involves tons of paper work, background checks, finger prints, birth certificates, medical exams and 2 meetings in the office and one in our home. You must have a home study done in order to adopt.
We are also working with an adoption facilitator, Life Time Adoption, out of California. We will probably be sending in our contract this week or the beginning of next week. The next step will be to make a profile for birth mothers to look at. And then, we wait for a birth mother to pick us.
We are also trying to come up with some fundraising ideas. So far we are selling Papa Murphy's peel-a-deal cards($35 value) for $5. We are also considering a garage/bake/lunch sale during the Pequot City Wide Garage Sale weekend. If anyone has any other ideas, we'd love to hear them!
If anyone is interested in giving a tax deductible donation to help birth mothers with immediate, short-term, emergency support, housing, maternity clothes, food and other necessities, let us know. If we send in these donations with our contract, Life Time matches the donations by reducing our fee.
We are excited, nervous, impatient and wondering sometimes if we might be slightly crazy.
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How exciting!! Congrats....you will be in our thoughts and prayers!
Steve & Debbie
What Nikki didn't say, here, is that all of these girls/women chose to have the baby rather than to abort. Maybe some of you already give to support these women, in other ways, which is awesome. But this is a completely tangible way to support LIFE--by donating money to support these girls while they're pregant, you are demonstrating love--and that amount is also taken off the adoption fees, which is a double blessing because it supports Nikki and Randy as they also demonstrate love to this precious LIFE. Isn't that cool? So . . . she isn't asking, but I am as a sister--don't be embarrassed to give even a little amount. :) Sorry if I've embarrassed you, Nikki.
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