The past few weeks have been pretty uneventful. We finally decided to take our house off the market after receiving no offers. What an unfortunate time to list a house for sale. Within a week of our listing on the MLS, Obama made his speech about the Federal Government defaulting on its debt, the stock market plunged 2000 points, and the jumbo loan limit dropped 100k. Not good for us. No, no, no!
So now we are trying our best to scrimp and save for our adoption and upcoming Master's program. We need to start fundraising for our adoption, since it will probably cost about $8,000 for us to fly to Ethiopia twice, and our referral fee will be due next year sometime. On top of that, what if we are lucky enough to be referred siblings?!? Then we need to come up with another $6,000.
What is our plan, you might be asking? Well, everybody loves coffee, so we are working on setting up our own online coffee store to help fundraise. I also happen to be pretty good on a sewing machine, so I plan on making handmade African-themed batik quilts and hope I get some takers. I'm starting to feel excited about our adoption! I think I just needed to pick myself out of the dumps of infertility blues and get an attitude adjustment. Also, being 27 on the siblings wait list is good, right??
In the meantime, I've been working on my mommy skills by knitting socks and making these cute little watermelon cookies:
And check out the veggies from our garden!
The online coffee store sounds great- it's something a little bit different! Good luck to you, sorry about your house :-(
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Yes on the quilts, please! I'll order (at least) one for sure! So sorry about the house--we would have problems selling as well. Glad you are feeling a bit better--those blues come and go, huh?
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Love the idea of quilts. You know I second you on the feeling crafty part. After taking the summer off I took out my crochet needles and got to work last week. I now have a pretty nifty potholder. Baby steps.
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