Did you notice? There are now ads on the site. There’s a good reason for this.

It is not like I need me some silly new shoes or am dying for some stupidly expensive handbag. Its that well, we’re still looking to expand our family. And after more than 18 months of trying, it still hasn’t happened yet. Remember how I talked about the hubby going to get his “soldiers” checked back in April-ish? We got the results back a few weeks later. Despite making a few lifestyle changes, it still hasn’t led to me getting knocked up.

So it looks like there will need to be more tests. But we’ve already decided that we definitely won’t do IVF. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with IVF or any sort of fertility treatment. Its just that we’ve gotten to have the whole pregnancy/tiny baby experience so if we can’t do it again, that’s ok. In fact, I’d prefer to adopt.

I’ve already done alot of homework on adoption in general. We’ve decided the international adoptions would be best for us. But that’s a $30,000-35,000 ordeal. Which, gah!

When I first started looking into adoption, I do so within the states. Many of the kids available here for adoption here are eight years and older. They need a whole different level of parenting than what we can provide at this point in our lives… And many have anger/behavior issues and problems bonding. They usually have siblings that need homes too. Honestly, we don’t feel equipped for that sort of thing. Plus many older children have been in physically/sexually abusive homes. And we definitely don’t feel we could deal with that. We have a 4-year-old son. We need to look out for his safety/well being first. If we had a child in his late teens and almost out of the house, we’d think differently. We’d have some experience dealing with an older child. Plus, many seem to need to be the only children in the house because of the problems they’ve had.

So the purpose of these ads is to raise a few bucks in hopes of offsetting adoption fees if we do go that route.

If I get knocked up soon, the money generated would go to an ALS research foundation. I have a good friend who has ALS. (Amy, Nelson, andFletcher — I think of you guys every day! Keep fighting Amy!)

So if you find something of interest, click on the ad. I don’t expect this will make us alot of money. Hell, I’d be happy if we made $5 a month! But I figure, it can’t hurt. And it would mean alot to the people in our household.