This is it everybody! The last week of our Fundraising February is here. With $20,000 in expenses behind us, there is still between $25,000-$30,000 ahead of us. It is daunting! With your help, $5,000 of that has been covered and we are hoping to cover a bonus goal of $2,000 to help us send our…

Well fam, we are 2 weeks into (newly branded) Fundraising February. 😎 We are still in awe that our matching gift has been reached! So many happy dances over here. Thank you SO MUCH for your amazing generosity to our family! We have raised $5,735, leaving us with $1,265 left to reach our bonus $2,000…

Hi Everyone! Eek, we have made it through week 1 of 4 with our $2,500 matching gift deadline slowly approaching. I debated on how I should title this post because it IS the next Creativity update, but it is ALSO our very first matching gift update. Whew. The challenges of blog writing 😜 I’m going…

We interrupt our previously scheduled Creativity Update with this important message… (I totally wrote it in that voice, guys). Hello, hello! I am so excited to write this post today. You guys know that we have been working really hard to save our pennies by any means. In fact, I hold saving money as one…

Happiest of Mondays to you! No news on the adoption front, but as you know, this is waiting time. We can’t wait for the call that will introduce us to our baby girl! 😁 In the meantime… Preparations continue at our house as we dream of New Baby Todd joining our family. Even without knowing…

Another Monday, another week of waiting. As time goes on, it feels like the intensity of waiting grows. Knowing that the next step means seeing our daughter’s face for the first time is a really big deal! And now that the busy holiday season is behind us, we feel the intensity more and more. Checking…

It has been another exciting week for our little household. Amara is now 7 years old and after celebrating at home she was excited to head back to school to celebrate with her friends. If that wasn’t exciting enough, we also received our US Approval to adopt which means we are officially on the waiting…

Hello! We are officially back from a wonderful holiday season and so excited to see what the New Year has for us as we continue our adoption journey. Being in a season of waiting is hard, but it was a bonus gift to wait through the holidays. The busy season was a helpful distraction and…

Hello, hello! It has been a few weeks, and there is very little to report from an adoption perspective. We continue to wait (im)patiently for approval from the US and India to adopt. All standard/normal/expected timelines tell us that the wait will be a while longer. Don’t worry, we still check our mail every day…

One requirement for adoptive parents is participation in a significant amount of training. While some of the training is curated and required, there is truly an endless amount of knowledge for parents to collect. In these moments, where our only “adoption job” is to wait for approvals, I love to fill my time with podcasts,…