It looks like our homestudy is complete and we are now just waiting for approval before we get it in our hands and can move onto step two of this long process: submitting the homestudy and other paperwork to USCIS (Immigration) and getting an appointment for FBI fingerprinting in Boston. Despite the fact that we've already been fingerprinted at the local Chatham police station and cleared for anything criminally related, we must now have our backgrounds checked by the big guns. It'll be worth a trip into Boston at least and then - check! Another step toward getting our baby.
As we wait, we've been killing time reading other adoptive parents blogs, joining in the Yahoo group for Holt's Ethiopian adoptive parents, and seeking out African cultural events like the wine tasting we went to at St. Christopher's church in downtown Chatham where the proceeds benefited HIV victims in Kenya through Maseno Missions. In reading other blogs, we came across a few couples who set up fundraising efforts online to raise money to support their adoption. Initially I thought this was a tad tacky and not really my speed, but let's face it, adoption costs are steep and how many of us have friends who have solicited our support for marathon running, Breast Cancer walks, etc.? All of these are worthy causes and I realized that my hesitation to start a fund raiser stemmed from the fact that our goals were of a purely personal nature as opposed to a larger cause. At any rate, we stumbled upon a website that specializes in selling Ethiopian coffee and allows adoptive families to set up a link so a portion of any sales that come through their page are designated toward their fundraising efforts. This particular donation raising scheme seemed a little less "solicity" to us. Plus, who doesn't like a good cup of Ethipian java to get going in the morning? Win/win, right? Plus, our friends and family and any other random followers of my Ethiopian blog can taste one of our child's homeland's specialties. We appreciate any support - every little bit helps get us one step closer to bringing our baby home.
Click here to buy some Meyer Adoption fund Ethiopian coffee now!
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