When I began this adoption journey a year ago, I was staring at a whopping
$30,000 that I needed to come up with some how. I had faith that it would happen, but I had NO IDEA how.
Through the crazy path of changing countries, then losing Wren and finding Dub, the $30,000 total budget stayed fairly consistent.
But the amount I have needed to figure out has slowly, amazingly gone down.
The day I emailed my agency to ask about Wren, a generous donor gave $12,000 to help fund her adoption. When she died, I was given the option of putting that money toward the adoption of another child with Down syndrome - what a blessing.
When I saw the picture of my Dub for the first time, Reece's Rainbow was in the middle of their annual Angel Tree project - a wonderful fundraising drive for waiting children. My little guy's amazing warrior worked hard to raise $1,000 for his adoption - another huge blessing.
From surprise grad school refunds to an extra paycheck and salary increase, money has been provided in ways I never could have imagined a year ago - again, so many blessings.
I'm now down to about
$3,000 to be fully funded.
This is so doable.
I am going to continue updating this post with every step towards that $3,000. I can't wait to see the blessings listed out here one by one. And if you look over to the right, there is a cute little thermometer that will go up, up, up as the money is raised!
Thank you for being a part of my journey.
Love, Elizabeth
P.S. Over the last few weeks, I have had several people ask me about fundraising. Why am I
still fundraising? If I gave for Wren's adoption, what happened to that money? Is it all a big scam?
I get your questions. I promise. No hard feelings.
Here's what I want you to know.
If you donated money or bought something I was selling, the money was spent on adoption. Even though this process has been long, the paperwork from Uganda and Wren's adoption have carried over. I did not have to redo things. I (miraculously) did not lose money when Wren died.
It's just that adoption is expensive.
At no point in this process have I been fully funded.
That's where this last $3,000 comes into play. $3,000 to
fully funded. (And no more fundraisers.)
And if you think this is a scam, I'm sorry. I wish I didn't have to ask for money. But the truth is, I do. As much as I dislike it, I will do it for my son.
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GOAL: $3,000
March Madness Bracket Fundraiser: $128
Donations: $525.22
5/5/5 for Families Grant: $847.73
3rd Place in Weight Loss Challenge: $47.06
Speaker Giveaway: $120 and counting...
Total:
$1,670.01
(as of April 29)
