Meeting Our Birthfamily Tour/Story

We have returned from the most epic two year family enhancing adventure. I continue to feel heroically strong, and so blessed by our deepened connection  to our extended family through adoption and our donor.  I will continue to share updates on my blog: http://mamacandtheboys for those of you who wish to follow all of the benefits that your contribution help to co-create.  But for now I feel that the GOFUNDME avenue is ready to close, having made  a tremendous difference in all of our lives. I can not begin to imagine how life long a shift it is. Can you?

This will be our last call to action, and our final thank you on this platform. I would so very much love to see the $5,000.00 mark met. With only $200.00 to go, I am ocnfident it will happen. If it does I am committing to sending the last $100.00 in the form of a helpful gift to Sam and Marcel's families. I know exactly what they could both use. With huge love and gratitude, Catherine and family.  August 30th, 2017
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(The follwing was written July and August 2016) We are about to embark on the biggest journey of our collective loves yet! Sammy is travelling across the country on his own in late August, to spend the better part of a week with his birth family. A few days later Marcel and I will arrive on the same coast to spend time with his donor, and family. We will then all convene in Washington State for a few days before coming home together, on the red eye a day before school starts.

Please join us with your thoughts, prayers, and calls. If you feel so moved to contribute to the cost of airfare, rental car, hotel, food, line ups, and food along the way we would be so grateful. Updates will appear as often as we recieve permission!

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Eleven years in the making, Sammy and I are embarking on a journey across the country to Tacoma, Washington next week to meet his birth family (grandparents, mom, two older brother's, older sister and younger cousin) for the first time. 

Back story: On Mother's Day this year Sammy told me that until he knows his biological mother he will not be able to ever feel good about this day. He shared his anger and frustration that this had not happened sooner.  It was time for me to do everything I could to get us all ready for the trip emotionally and logistically. I promised him that I would make it happen.  Several weeks later his firstmom texted back; "Sure, we would love to have you come." While I do not feel able to share more of the story here, Sammy has expressly givem me permission to tell you about this trip, and why I am asking for your help. 

While I worked very hard to make it all happen, I am far from there and have come up short for a lsignificant part of the immediate expenses (paying for our tickets, hotel and rental car) and have literally nothing to cover meals or outings with his family.

I am asking for your help to create ease for all of us around our adventure so I can be  free to show up fully for him during and after, and then in the late fall to embark on a similar idenity-seeking expedition with Marcel who has been invited to  meet his biological siblings in California. All funds raised here will go to making that possble as well.  For more about our adoption and donor story, you can read about us here.