As terrible as it’s been, I think the lesson of patience is a good one for us. We’ve been known to open all of our Christmas presents days before Christmas, just because we (mostly me) can’t wait! Thankful our placement agency has been wonderful in working with us during the delay. They just reached out to us, and offered to send all of our documents for translating in Hungary before we have our official government approval! The traditional route is to get your home study completed and approved, get your i800a (national approval to bring home a foreign child) which takes 6-8 weeks, and then your documents all get sent in for translation which usually takes about a month. If we are able to have our translating done before our official government approval, this saves us at least a month! On top of that, if our documents are into the children’s ministry and translated, we could cold be tentatively matched. We can’t formally accept any referrals or travel until we have our i800a approval, but it gets us one step closer!
The down side is, we now will have to pay our home study acceptance fee and our translation fee all at once. It’s around $2,000 more than we were expecting to pay at one time. However, this is where the thank you’s are in order. We can not thank everyone enough for the help in our fundraisers. Both our You Caring and Lularoe fundraisers have been more helpful than you can ever imagine!
We have a long way to go, and are excited to announce we have two more fundraisers coming up!
For all of our friends and family in Utah, The Pizza Pie Cafe in Layton will be hosting a fundersaiser for us January 8th-11th. For everyone that comes in for dinner and mentions our names, they will give us 25% of the purchases. Cory and I will be hanging out there all night on Tuesday the 9th, and hope to see everyone that we’ve missed so dearly. They also have all you can eat pizza, and gluten free pizza. It’s a win-win!
For anyone in Arizona, on January 17th one of my favorite places in the world, Someburro’s in Queen Creek will be giving us 20% of all profits for anyone that brings in our flyer or mentions are names. Come join us for my favorite taco’s in the world, all while supporting our family!
In addition, we do now have a profile set up through Adopt Together. This is allows people and companies to donate money to a 501(c)(3) charity. This means that it is fully tax deductible. We see a little less of the proceeds, but if you know any business looking for tax deductions come tax season, send them our way!
I’ll have more information on our two restuarant fundraisers after Christmas. I once again want to thank everyone for the best Christmas gift you’ve already given, the love and support in starting our family!!
