Venting

Can I moan and groan and vent and complain for just a minute? Sure, it's my blog. If you don't want to read it, I'm okay with that.

As you know, we have been collecting recipes to put together a cookbook as a fundraiser for our God-willing upcoming adoption. We are collaborating with another family from town as they are also preparing to adopt from the same orphanage. I created a flyer and posted about it on my blog. I sent out emails to our friends and family. KAJ and I put flyers in every mailbox in both of our schools. We placed flyers at church. He posted about it on facebook. Mel did the same. She got a ton of response! Without her, our cookbook would be less than wonderful.

Our friends and family did not respond to the extent that I expected. Quite a few people said, oh that's nice. You should ask ____ for this recipe. OR, that's awesome! I have a few I'll send your way. And never did... I was really hoping that our families would be supportive and talk it up to their co-workers and friends and churchs. And never did... I was hoping that my co-workers would get excited and help out. And a bunch of them got excited and had lots of questions but never helped out.

I guess I'm just feeling very under supported and pretty surprised that more of my friends and family didn't help with this project. Now, I'm not taking for granted those that DID help and we REALLY appreciate your support. I'm not overlooking you! I'm just pretty bummed that more people didn't help.

I know, I have nothing to complain about and I'm sure you all have a hundred things you could say to 'make me feel better'. I don't really want to hear them. I just wanted to complain for a few minutes. Thanks for listening.