What I have to Offer...

When we lost Yana I thought I was going to just fall apart. It broke my heart. On top of that, knowing that the agency partner lied to us by saying they had the dossier translated and submitted last fall was a lie, I was quite taken back. How could they do that to us and to Yana? We waited on a date for months when really we were waiting on something not going to happen. Mad, ticked, upset, sad, hurt were a few words I could use to describe how I felt. Then add the fact that we lost the money we paid the agency here-all the documents and personal info & the money we paid for them-all the time spent and gas getting all the required signatures/apostilles needed-all the money we paid for postage-we had to have bci/fbi redone-our homestudy has to be updated-etc, etc, etc. It may not seem like a lot when it comes down to the end result, but it is emotionally painful and yes it does matter when it all adds up. Then I looked at some of the things we had here from Yana's adoption, and that got me to thinking. Thinking that maybe we should do a give away for these items and try to raise money for Phoebe and her sister to come home. So, here it goes...