Halfway Through?

 Sitting here today, after our second visit being told we are about halfway through the process, I still feel like there is so much we are waiting on.  Blood work, fingerprints, passing the home study and worrying about raising some money.  If we are halfway through then I feel like I’m behind in so much.  I went to the adoptionbug.com website.  This website sells T-shirts to aid in helping families raise money for adopting.  I received their packet of information and it is a two week wait to start.  Why 2 weeks waiting, we needed to start last month!  There are also W-9 forms to fill out that confuse me so I haven’t done any of it.  I’m half tempted to just put a pay-pal account on this blog and hope that if you are able to contribute and want to that you’ll just do it via pay-pal.  I also am not that comfortable asking for donations.  When we started this process, we were so consumed with emotion of wanting another child that we were going to do whatever to get one.  Now I’m wondering how to do that.  I’m not necessarily feeling discouraged about the money, I just read stories of how other families have raised over $20,000 in crazy amounts of time and we want to be able to raise at least some money.  Either way, it’s all good.  We are adopting a baby and super excited to be in the pool of families waiting to get picked!  I’m also staring at our spare room upstairs wondering at what part of this process we start fixing it into a nursery.  There are so many what-ifs right now that we just have to do what our social worker advised and that is putting a book together about our life.  This book will be filled with pictures and stories about our life to aid the birth parent in choosing us.  We also have to write a birth parent letter.  Joe and I are attacking this today.  It’s a little intimidating to make a book and write a letter to sell your family.  Hopefully they’ll be a mom out there that chooses us…..sooner than later!