Beg-A-Thon

Bring Our Daughter Home

There are two ways that we can address our plea to our Family, Friends, Acquaintances and Benefactors who happen upon this plea. Some of you have seen JE' quip which is repeated below. Here is RN's version in JE's words.

Dear Brothers and Sister's. In case you didn't know it has long been on my heart to adopt. During our courtship we discussed adoption and I told my then friend that ever since I was eight (8) I had it placed hard on me that I would adopt a child and raise him or her as best I could. If he was not on-board then he would be kicked to the curb.

We are now 7 months into our paper pregnancy and try as we might we have been unsuccessful in finding grants for the adoption. Unlike health insurance where pregnancies, births and even abortions are covered by insurance here is no such program for adoption. Our first two children cost less than $3000, not including the monthly premiums. Adopting, we have found, will stretch you to your financial limits and beyond.

We are asking, pleading, for your financial support, to help us bring our daughter home home.

Brother Can You Spare A Dime Part 1

HELP!

They are holding my daughter hostage in India. The kidnappers have demanded a minimum of $13,000 for us to get her with a few caveats. The exchange is to take place in a small village on the east coast of India. We will have to make arrangements for airfare, hotels, taxi's, immigration payola, medical treatment etc. The demands are rather complicated. We need to get exit visa's and to do that we have to travel to the far Northern part of the country, Delhi. We have been told that if we meet the requirements in Delhi that we should be allowed to leave with our child. I tried to negotiate a simple fly-in, fly-out exchange but was told I had to do it their way or no way. We knew that getting her home would not be cheap but we are getting stretched thin. Unfortunately there is no type of insurance for this situation, Our only course of action is to ask for help in getting her back. Can you help?

Are you flush? If so we will gladly take a grant (cheeky eh?).

BCYSAD Part 2

Ever see those info-mercials about children in other countries needing your financial support for just a dollar a day? Well we are not needing a dollar a day. We easily need over $13,000. Make a real positive impact on a child's life. Help us bring our daughter home. Instead of getting a yearly report on her health and educational progress you can come by and actually visit, touch and be an active participant in making a change in our daughter's life. Brother, Can You Spare Dime?

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Educate Yourself About Your Child

The adoption agency my have you take an on-line course or two to prepare you for your child. No course is going to be able to predict the demeanour and behaviour of your child. We have taken a couple courses and at the very least they may prepare you for the worse possible case. We pray that in no way will our child have been subjected to the horrors that they have portrayed.

We have been doing some reading of our own. The books listed here are just what is in our library. I am not sure that even these are totally helpful. I think at best there are little nuggets of information that will help us once we get our child. At worse that have killed a few hours of time n the evening. There are listed in no particular order – they just fell off the shelf in this order

Name/Author/ISBN

Adopting in California

Randall B. Hicks

0-9631638-8-4

Adoption Resource Book

Lois Gilman

0-06-273361-3

20 Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew

Sherrie Eldridge

0-440-50838-X

Treasury of Adoption Miracles

Karen Kingsbury

0-446-53337-8

Making Sense of Adoption

Lois Ruskai Melina

0-06-096319-0

Adoption For Dummies

Tracy Barr/Katrina Carlisle

0-7645-5488-3

Shepherding A Child's Heart

Tedd Tripp

0-9663786-0-1

Adopting A Toddler

What Size Shoes Does She Wear?

Denise Harris Hoppenhauer

0-595-29724-2

Toddler Adoption

The Weavers Craft

Mary Hopkins-Best

0-944934-21-8

Parenting From The Inside Out

Daniel Siegel & Mary Hartzell

1-58542-295-9

How To get Your Kid To east…

But Not Too Much

Ellyn Satter

0-915950-83-9

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