Yesterday was a BIG day for my family! We had a yard sale to raise money for the next expenses in the adoption. The HUGE payments are coming up and we wanted to prepare ourselves. Well, God blessed our day and we raised $899.00 with the yard sale and the kids lemonade stand over the last few weeks. Praise God!!! We are having another yard sale next Saturday, May 25th because we still have tons of great stuff to sell. After that all that's left will be donated to our church's Caring Closet for the needy in our area. All my local friends and family please pass the word along about the sale. I know it won't be as crowded because it's not a neighborhood sale but with help from you I'm sure we can get the word out.
As for the process on the adoption...we are still waiting:( I'm hoping the USCIS fingerprint forms will come soon so we can get that taken care of ASAP. Tomorrow we are having the dossier notarized. Later this week I will take all the pages to the Department of State in Harrisburg and have everything apostilled. That's $15 a page...so expensive. But honestly nothings cheap about adoption:)
Please pray that this next step goes well and we don't have to repeat pages. Also pray for our shots that we need. Anyone that knows me knows I hate shots...and we have to get lots. Did I mention each shot is around $140 and our insurance won't cover travel vaccines. It's going to cost around $600 for Mark and I...JUST FOR SHOTS!!!! I guess it's better to be safe than sorry.
Last but certainly not least thank you to all our friends and family that helped with the yard sale. We had some amazing donations (Mom, Dad, Sean, Rachel, Elizabeth, Matt thanks a million). Also a special thanks to my wonderful Mom who stayed over night and helped me set up. She also stayed the whole yard sale to help as well. I couldn't have done it without her. Mom you are the BEST!!!
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