Our shirt fundraiser ended last night and we BLEW our goal out of the water! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts! The outpouring of love and support really gave me a fresh sense of purpose and renewed my energy (this process can be hard). Shirts should be arriving in about 2 weeks!
We are making strides in our adoption process, both Derek and I had our medical checks done and we had our first social worker meeting! BIG steps! We still have about a million more pieces of paper to collect but are choosing to think one page and one step at a time to avoid becoming overwhelmed. We finally have our sponsorship page up which is HUGE! This means we will be able to fund-raise on a larger scale, and will allow people to donate (tax deductible) directly to our adoption.
Here is the link: http://reecesrainbow.org/85867/sponsorbenz (we will have a button on our blog soon)
Now on a completely different note:
Today my baby boy turned one! I cannot even put into words all the emotions that today held, but I think the biggest was gratitude. I am grateful every day that I get to be Griffin's mom, that I get to hug him when he is sad and that I get to make him laugh and laugh with him. We spent today playing, laughing, and cuddling, it was so much fun! He makes me a better person, he makes me love being a mommy.
