As far as personal milestones, it's been quite the whirlwind. Some days bleed together so much I'm not sure what's what. The adoption process has been moving along quite nicely; we completed our homestudy this weekend! And three hours later had an epic Star Wars bday party for a certain little boy!
All of the fun food labels I made are in my etsy shop for sale now, grab em while they're hot!
Here's the scary part to say out loud now: we are adopting from South Korea and they have a required maximum weight on the adoptive parents. I have never been "skinny" or what one would call athletically-inclined. And I have tried and failed about 3.7 million times to lose weight consistently. I've also sort-of-half-way-lazily tried and failed as well. I'm thinking the last 3.7 million times might be in that category. So this is an extremely daunting task for me to hit a certain weight (don't even get me started on how I actually feel about the rule, I'm just in it to bring my baby home). I've always eaten very little and exercised minimally. It seems I've been "starving" myself in the weirdest of ways. And in the past when I would try to lose weight I'd focus on one or the other. This year, I decided to change it. I eat ALL the time. And I eat really good food! Tons of protein and veggies. And I cheat! I'm also swimming like a maniac. 2-3 miles a week! So I'm pretty tired a lot too, but the good, I worked hard for this bed, tired. It's almost the end of March and I've kept up a pretty good routine so I'm thinking this is the thing to stick for me.
Oh, and I've lost over 20lbs and 8 inches. SUCCESS! Finally!
But I'm still not at the required weight for Korea. So I will keep going until I am. Feel free to hold me accountable. And pray that the progress they see is sufficient proof that I'm doing all it takes to meet their policies.
Also, since the homestudy is complete (YAY!) that means its time for our next big hurdle of $25,175 in fees to be paid to finalize things so we can travel to go get our babe! Yikes, super super scary, isn't it?! That's a BIG number. We've got lots of extra odd jobs we're working on, goodies for sale in my etsy shop, t-shirts for sale, and we have some amazing friends who have some fun fundraisers planned, but we still need so much help to get to the finish line.
It's so daunting to ask for help like this, but it's just not possible for us to adopt without help, our village is carrying us through this for sure and we could not be more grateful! The last time I asked for help we exceeded our goal in less than a week. If you'd like to help (even $1 is amazing!), you can find our adoption profile here where you can donate. We are so thankful for this tribe, we wouldn't be who we are without you!! Thank you for helping us expand our family!
