To host or not to host
that is the question!
I came into work this morning to find the email below waiting for me in my inbox. I think hosting would be fun! The children are a bit older than we plan on adopting, but I think it would be fun to at least host and give these kids a couple weeks of fun. The timing for this would work out perfectly too. I already looked into day camp at the YMCA. There is a session that runs from August 1 - August 12.
From what I can gather from the limited info that I have is that the kids will arrive on July 21 (yes that is next Thursday - yikes!) and will be here for 3 weeks. I could take vacation days next Thurs and Fri, then take 1/2 days the following week. Mike is busy in the afternoons with the business so I would be home in the afternoon to spend with the child. Then the child could go to camp at the YMCA for the last 2 weeks. I think it would work out wonderfully.
I am waiting to hear back from the sponsoring agency to get more details. I'll discuss it with Mike this evening. Maybe I can be a "mom" for 3 weeks this summer! That would be awesome!!
Again I say...what is meant to be will be...
Oh - and our apostilled documents are "out for delivery" according to UPS.
email from agency:
Dear Prospective Host Family,
A short time ago you contacted Adopt a Miracle and expressed an interest in hosting a child from an orphanage in Eastern Europe for a summer adventure in America. Originally, we were asking hosting families to assist in paying for the child’s travel costs. We understand that the expense kept many of you from agreeing to host a child. Fortunately, we have been able to find sponsors who have offered to pay for the children’s travel costs.
With this new information, we are hoping many of you will now be able to consider hosting a child this summer. We have a group of children coming to New York City from Ukraine on July 21. Many of the children hoping to come still need host families. If you can travel to New York to pick the child up, you can take the child home with you for the hosting experience.
We have another group of children who would like to come later in the summer, or at Christmas time. The date and location depends on the number of families in a particular area who are willing to host. At this time we have a number of families in CA, CO and MI who are interested, but we can bring a group of children to your state if we have 6-7 host families.
If you have a completed home study, or at least background checks completed, you are qualified to host a child. Even if you do not plan to adopt, you can host a child. When your child is with you, we will arrange for the child to meet other families who may not be hosting but are interested in adopting children from Eastern Europe.
I came into work this morning to find the email below waiting for me in my inbox. I think hosting would be fun! The children are a bit older than we plan on adopting, but I think it would be fun to at least host and give these kids a couple weeks of fun. The timing for this would work out perfectly too. I already looked into day camp at the YMCA. There is a session that runs from August 1 - August 12.
From what I can gather from the limited info that I have is that the kids will arrive on July 21 (yes that is next Thursday - yikes!) and will be here for 3 weeks. I could take vacation days next Thurs and Fri, then take 1/2 days the following week. Mike is busy in the afternoons with the business so I would be home in the afternoon to spend with the child. Then the child could go to camp at the YMCA for the last 2 weeks. I think it would work out wonderfully.
I am waiting to hear back from the sponsoring agency to get more details. I'll discuss it with Mike this evening. Maybe I can be a "mom" for 3 weeks this summer! That would be awesome!!
Again I say...what is meant to be will be...
Oh - and our apostilled documents are "out for delivery" according to UPS.
email from agency:
Dear Prospective Host Family,
A short time ago you contacted Adopt a Miracle and expressed an interest in hosting a child from an orphanage in Eastern Europe for a summer adventure in America. Originally, we were asking hosting families to assist in paying for the child’s travel costs. We understand that the expense kept many of you from agreeing to host a child. Fortunately, we have been able to find sponsors who have offered to pay for the children’s travel costs.
With this new information, we are hoping many of you will now be able to consider hosting a child this summer. We have a group of children coming to New York City from Ukraine on July 21. Many of the children hoping to come still need host families. If you can travel to New York to pick the child up, you can take the child home with you for the hosting experience.
We have another group of children who would like to come later in the summer, or at Christmas time. The date and location depends on the number of families in a particular area who are willing to host. At this time we have a number of families in CA, CO and MI who are interested, but we can bring a group of children to your state if we have 6-7 host families.
If you have a completed home study, or at least background checks completed, you are qualified to host a child. Even if you do not plan to adopt, you can host a child. When your child is with you, we will arrange for the child to meet other families who may not be hosting but are interested in adopting children from Eastern Europe.
posted by Kim @ 9:28 AM
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