Can you believe it is already going to be February tomorrow? I guess time really does speed up as you get older- hopefully that will remain true over these next few months! We are still waiting for USCIS (I think that's the correct acronym, there are so many!) office to finish with our homestudy and we have to go get fingerprinted. We are absolutely thrilled to be done with the paperwork and yet, feel more helpless because we have no say in how fast or slow things get done. One thing we have been working on is saving money for plane tickets and international fees. Justin found a fundraiser for us and it is wonderful! We make too much money for grants but not enough to be able to pay for everything out right and so we have been trying to find ways to fund the difference. The fundraiser is through a company called Just Love Coffee and it was started by a man that adopted from Ethiopia and saw how hard it is for families! It's a great organization that doesn't require us to pay them to do the fundraiser (a rare thing!). It is difficult for us to ask our friends to do things like this for us and we hope you know that you have absolutely no pressure to purchase anything. One HUGE help for us would be to spread the word about what we are doing! I included a short summary paragraph below this so that you can easily copy and paste that and the link into an email, facebook message, or whatever to help make it simple. Please take some time to look at the site and decide if you want to purchase anything. Even if you can't or don't want to order anything, please send it out to all your friends! Love you all!
Hello friends! My husband, Justin, and I are currently working our way through the paperwork to adopt our first child, a little boy from Ethiopia. We have had the interviews, the physicals, the background checks, the home inspections, and gotten referrals. Our last couple of steps including waiting to be matched with our soon-to-be son and being able to go and get him! Ethiopia's laws require us to travel over to the country twice to be able to finalize the adoption and airfare is not cheap. We found another adoptive family that began a company for the purpose of helping families like ours realize our dreams of having children through the sale of coffee. You may know that one of Ethiopia's main exports is coffee! All of the products through this site are obtained through fair-trade organizations (meaning everyone gets paid for the work they do!) and all the profits go to a family like ours or Ethiopian orphanages. To help us reach our goal, you can go to our sponsored page, pick out some coffee for a friend or yourself, and the company takes care of the rest! Anything you order is shipped directly where you want it. Please take some time and look at the products and either purchase something or tell your friends about it. We are so excited God has chosen us for this journey and can't wait to look into the eyes of our son. Thank you for any and all help at getting us one step closer! God Bless!
Here is the link for the funds to go to our family:
https://www.justlovecoffee.com/vandammes
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