A Time to wait and a time to Fundraise

Wow, time has passed since the last time I blogged. We have had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Alot of changes are happening in our family, and we started the New Year off with Zach and Ashley's announcement that they are expecting their first is August 2012!! We are very happy and excited about this little one joining our family:)

As far as our adoption is concerned we are still moving forward with CCS. Things are slow...but they are still MOVING:) We hit a road bump (I'm sure there are more to come) and missed out on the Feb. 2012 meeting that we are required to attend before we can adopt. Apparently there is limited seats available and we didn't get on the list  in time. The next meeting is in August....which yes...is a while away. So instead of being upset and down we are focusing on what we CAN do now to prepare for our future child. And well we have some work to do over the summer.

We will be working on our FBI/GBI clearances that are also required and take several weeks to accomplish. So let the paperwork and fingerprinting begin! We also have something else that we will be focusing on during this season of the process.......FUNDRAISING!!!!!

Adoption isn't cheap and they certainly don't give children away for free. CCS has given us a detailed breakdown of all of the costs/fees that are due before we get the child. So Paul being the wonderful accountant that he is sat down and did the math. Our adoption will cost us around $20,000. Yes all those zeros are correct...I of course thought I might fall out when I saw the expense the adoption will cost us. I began wondering how we would come up with it bc we don't have half that amount. But, the GREAT NEWS is that God has this adoption in his hands. Thank goodness it is not in mine. He WILL provide and we trust in him. But, we can't just sit down and expect it to fall in our lap.....SO We sat down and completely turned our finances upside down. To say we are frugal is an understatement. But, we feel that we can't expect others to give and help us if we don't do everything we can to help ourselves first. So yes pinching pennies is one way we plan to save. The other way is fundraising. I believe that "Where there is a will there is a way"...and I HAVE A WAY!
I came across an AMAZING website a few weeks ago that's sole purpose is to help families raise money for their adoptions. It costs us not one penny to do! All we had to do was fill out an application, send a pic of us and pick out some shirts...they take care of the rest and we make a certain percentage of commission off each shirt and it will go straight into our adoption fund!!!!!!! We are so excited!!! SO! If you would like to purchase a T-shirt to help us raise money for our precious child go to adoptionbug.com/caputo and pick out what you want. There are 6 shirts to choose from. They come in Adult Tee, Women's fitted, and youth sizes. All of the shirts that say Show Hope help support the Show Hope Foundation created Steven Curtis Chapman to help support families of adoptive children. For every Show Hope Shirt purchased a dollar is given to Show Hope. Here are a few pics of the shirts!