Update on donations..

Spoke with our agency director via email today and he just got home from Ethiopia. He said as of this past week things are getting VERY sticky in Ethiopia customs...as in they will not let you through and make every single item going through (diapers, etc) tough. (ie: One person had 200 pairs of shoes for an organization, and they had to pay $500!!!!) That being said, if you are planning on a tangible donation, it will be in the best interest of all involved if we do monetary donations only. If you want to give specific items to the children, I can buy what you specifically would like for your money to go to once I am there. I have decided that is what I will do..go to Ethiopia, talk to the nannys and see exactly what they need and go buy it myself. This way I know EXACTLY where our donations go! If you want a tax deductible donation you must make the check out to "Small World" rather than myself, as I am not an official "charity".  And as always, thank you , thank you, thank you to all who have so graciously donated thus far!

More about the charity, we spoke with our accountant, and he suggested starting a charity, but then once we really looked into all involved, it will be thousands of dollars that we need to put towards the adoption at this time. But I do pray in the future to do this. It was so exciting to think about it, but I know with the changes of the new baby in the family and everything, running a full blown charity is just not in my immediate future..as much as I want it to be..I know my limits:) 

Another big event, this Thursday we will do our biometrics appt. and this marks a very important end to our "paper chase" as they call it in the adoption world. And, our director said we are #8 on the list. It's a small agency, so #8 would be oh so exciting for a big agency, but for us, it still means quite a bit more waiting. (Many large agencies at our phase of the game we would be #80 or more because they do such large amounts of referrals so #8 with them would mean in a month or 2:)I still pray for a 2013 referral, but open to whatever is supposed to be.