Krissy has been busy raising money to pay for her portion of the travel expenses to Ethiopia this weekend. I mentioned a while ago that Krissy really wanted to travel with me to bring Joshua home. Although we were very supportive of her joining me, we did not estimate her coming with in our adoption budget, so we need to raise the money for her travel expenses. Anyway, she has been a busy girl this weekend, working hard to pay her way.
Saturday she went to Chad's Aunt's house and helped with some cleaning and holiday decorating. She even wrapped a few gifts. Aunt Gale was so thoughtful! She contacted us last week with the offer to pay Krissy to help with some of these household items as a way to earn travel money. Krissy and I were both excited. She was able to raise some money and at the same time spend some one on one time with her Aunt.
Today she spent at her Grammy's house learning about EBay. Her very creative and giving Aunt Teresa donated some items that she is no longer using for Krissy to sell on EBay. (Do we not have the most amazing family!) Grammy is an EBay expert so she helped Krissy get all the items listed. Krissy helped Grammy figure out her new digital camera, so they both learned a lot today.
I am so thankful for the help and support of our family! I have put raising money for Krissy on the back burner for now. My brain has been full getting paperwork done, researching various adoption related items, preparing for Christmas, and working through some end of the year paperwork at work. We do have plenty of time to raise the money, but working on it a bit at a time makes it much easier. It also keeps it feeling real to Krissy. It is so exciting to see the total she needs to travel slowly get smaller!
I am hoping that the majority of her funds can be raised through a combination of donations and service related projects. I also plan to apply for some grants. Krissy is a great babysitter, cook, cleaner (just not her own room), lawn mower, house sitter, gift wrapper, birthday party helper, etc... If you could use an extra hand, let us know!
