Want to Help?
Sharing our Info
The best, most amazing thing you can do to help us adopt is share our contact info and webpage. We would love to meet our birth parent(s) as soon as possible and getting the word out that we are looking is crucial to that. Please, please, tell everyone and anyone you can that we are looking. You never know who might know someone who is looking to place their baby.
Adoption Costs
Adoption Costs are incredibly expensive. On average, adopting a baby costs between $35,000-$45,000. We have saved a part of this amount but will end up having to fund most of our adoption with a loan. Several people have asked us if they can contribute and, while we have no expectations, you absolutely can. We have a t-shirt fundraiser (↓) but if you just want to give to us, you can PayPal us HERE.
We've partnered with Bonfire and released a t-shirt campaign. As long as there are 5 orders, they will print and ship quality shirts for nonprofit fundraising. I really like the design we came up with (ok, so I designed it but still, I'd buy it at a store). Anyhow, every dime goes towards our adoption expenses. If at the end of this we have any donated money leftover, we will donate it to another couple like us, who is waiting to adopt.
Anyhow, if you like the shirt- buy it! It comes in a bunch of colors and different styles (including sweatshirt!). Give it as a Christmas Present to someone. We are trying to not just do crowdfunding but to actually provide a product that people might want to buy.
Not really in to the first shirt? We have a second shirt!!! Ever since we started this adoption process, Mel has really believed we are going to end up with a girl. So she designed this shirt as a tribute to raising girls and to women everywhere who are warriors. The design is based on this beautiful poem by Caitlyn Seihl:
"The First Word I Teach My Daughter"
the first word I teach my daughter will be “no”
she will sing it to me and scream it at me
and I will never tell her to quiet down
she will say it when I tell her to go to bed
when I tell her she can’t have anymore candy
or watch anymore television
“no” will be my daughter’s favorite word
not only will I teach her how to say it
but I will teach her to repeat it over and over
again until every single atom in her tiny little body
hums with it
If it makes her less soft than the other girls
I will take her to museums and show her
what marble and stone can become
I will brush her hair and let her wear whatever
she wants
whatever that makes her
she will know
that the world has been built upon “no’s”
upon rejections and refusals and swords
if this makes her a warrior in a field of
flowers, then she will walk without fear
of being trampled on
the first word I teach my daughter will be
“no”
and when she grows up
in a world that tells her
she can’t walk down the street by herself
that “no” will be heard
it will roar and echo down the block
and she will never be told to keep
silent
she will not know the meaning of the word.