We've been pretty busy since my last post! Fundraising has been going amazingly well thanks to the help of my mom and my awesome friend, Courtney! Together the 3 of us have sold over 50 scarves and counting! (Well technically 4 of us because, Charlie, Courtney's husband has helped sell them too!) It's been a lot of work and a lot of fun. A huge thank you to everyone and anyone that has bought a scarf. We truly have an amazing support system of friends and family! Courtney and I are actually trying to make up a few different items, as well, to sell at a craft fair in April. I've also started making some different patterned scarves and I'm using a new material that is jersey knit, like t-shirt material. I'll post some pics soon!
We have also been prepping our home to add another little one...we've been cleaning up the basement by sorting out garage sale items, lots of purging, and organizing. We are making great progress! Also in line with prepping the house, we've been cleaning out the spare bedroom...and by cleaning out I simply mean selling the current furniture and prepping what used to be Cooper's crib, then toddler bed. We have to take a picture of the room to include in our dossier.
Speaking of our dossier, we are getting closer! We've both already met with the psychologist and will meet with him in a couple of weeks to go over his report. We have all of our certified documents, we have all but one reference letter back, all medical forms completed, and our police clearance letter. We still have a couple of questionnaires to finish and the pictures to put together and then we just need our home study report to add! Just today I spoke with our social worker and scheduled our meetings with her!! It's so exciting for us to be getting closer to "The Wait"! (Waiting to be matched with our child!)
So as silly as this sounds, I have to say that I'm thankful for movies like Despicable Me and Meet the Robinsons. It has really helped Cooper grasp the whole idea of adoption even better. Just the other day I mentioned something about our social worker and Cooper says, "Is she going to make sure our home is suitable for children?" I couldn't help but laugh because that is directly from one of the short films on the Despicable Me DVD! Kind of makes me think God can use anything to teach us if we listen!
