Only two weeks away so mark your calendars for October 24, 2009... a show of epic proportions. Just $10 for four amazing St. Louis bands. We'll also have unique Silent Auction items. More info on that soon!

Check out the Rock Benefit Page for more info...

We're basically just continuing on the path.  September was tough, lots of freelance work, which is necessary to raise the funds we need to move forward, lots of stress, and struggling with having to cancel our first fundraiser.  I think that made the stress of work even worse, just because we have to put aside a lot of things to work even harder to get everything together.  We expect that we'll have the first big piece of money in order to be in the pool of adoptive parents by the end of October, so that will be great.  Then we focus on getting all the other funds together for the day we pick up our future Hudababy. 

I wouldn't say that things are at a standstill right now, but moving slow to be sure.  It's the name of the game with adoption at this stage, waiting.  We work and wait for the funds to come in.  We organize fundraisers and wait for people to show up.  We fill out paperwork, put together a profile and wait for a birth mom to pick us.  And then we wait for the birth.  And then, the longest wait will be that 48 hours between the birth and when the birth mother will make her final decision to place her child with our family.  It's funny, I never thought my life would be waiting to get to the next stage of waiting. 

So, September was stressful and lots of feelings of going nowhere fast.  I know they will pass, I just have to wait for it...

On another topic, this article is very touching, emotional, and amazing...

http://www.openadoptioninsight.org/adoptive_parents.htm

Here's a huge bright spot in my week:  my cousin Alecia (Señora Muertos) put a call out, and her friends and fellow mafiosos in the St. Louis Craft Mafia are donating pieces to our silent auctions.  Everything I've gotten so far is awesome, and I'm just amazed at their generosity.  Many of them have booths at the Tower Grove Farmers Market on Saturdays, so if you visit regularly, check out the non-food areas if you haven't already.  Many will also be selling their wares at the StrangeFolk Festival in O'Fallon, IL September 26-27, so if you want to see and buy some awesome handmade goodies, check it out.  It looks like we'll have a mountain of said goodies at the Rock Benefit and IL Trivia Night as well!  I can't thank them, or Alecia, enough!

Señora Muertos Blog:
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/senora-muertos

St. Louis Craft Mafia:
http://www.stlouiscraftmafia.com/

StrangeFolk Festival:
http://www.strangefolkfestival.com/

Check them out!

It's official.  The St. Louis trivia event is canceled.  After our final push to get folks to come, we got lots more no's, and no more yes's.  For some reason the date is just bad, and it's also the day before Yom Kippur, which we didn't know at the time we scheduled it.

We are having a bbq at our house that night, so we're not staring at the four walls having a pity party for two.  If you are one of the 12 people that were coming to the trivia night, please consider joining us.  If you're not on Facebook, please email me for info, donate(at)hudababy.com.

Thanks, and I hope to see many more faces at our Illinois trivia night and rock benefit.  We're getting a lot of rockin' donations for the silent auction, you really won't want to miss them.  Or maybe you will.  I guess we'll see.

Well, folks... We haven't had a great response for our St. Louis Trivia Night.  We're waiting until the end of the week to make a final decision, but it's not looking good.  We only have 2 of 13 tables reserved, and in order to make it worthwile and cover the expenses for the night, we need at least 8 tables.  Also, any less than that just wouldn't be a very fun competition.  I'm hoping that our next 2 events will have a better response, and not just financially.  We've put a lot into putting them together, and are looking forward to seeing everyone.  The rock show promises to be a wicked cool time, and we've got some awesome silent auction items lined up.

Anyway, just wanted to make the announcement here.  If you're on the fence, or you've been planning to go, please let us know at donate(at)hudababy.com.  If you have RSVP'd and we do cancel, we'll let you know ASAP, and you will have first dibs at the Illinois event (and I'm thinking some free drinks), and if you've paid you can either use it for the Illinois night, or we'll refund your moolah.  We'll know and make an announcement by September 18.