A little over two months ago, on Memorial Day weekend, we made our Next Chapter Facebook event, posted a blog post featuring the KoolAid mascot and our feelings, and unveiled the Operation Adoption fundraiser.
Since then we have been overwhelmed by the stories, love, and generosity of friends, family, acquaintances, and even friends of acquaintances whom we have never met. We have raised over $9,000. And we also randomly accidentally have had over 1,000 views of our blog. Let the KoolAid man's statement stand:
Cue slightly extended status update:
This weekend, on July 11th, we have our first adoption class at The Cradle, the first of many classes and tests and such that are part of the Homestudy process (a process we have posted more about here). At this point the payments begin to be due.
In 3 weeks we have our Next Chapter Bash, by the end of which we hope to have raised a whole other $6,000 to meet our $15,000 goal. A lofty challenge, but we do have faith and hope that it will happen!
We spent our 4th of July weekend 1) working on getting the house and details ready for the Next Chapter Bash 2) laughing as our dog Nigel ran around barking his head off at the fireworks and 3) exercising great restraint to not overly comfort our other dog Sweets as he tucked himself into corners in respose to those same fireworks.
And I couldn't help but wonder what our next 4th of July might be like.
And whether there will be a little one we are trying to get to sleep through the sound of fireworks and barking dogs. Wouldn't it be an amazing blessing to be put through such an obnoxious experience?
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