Truth or Dare Fundraiser ! This will be an ongoing fundraising effort by our family for our adoption. Please visit our adoption page. We just thought of it and it sounds fun ! Here is how it works. We will play Truth or Dare with you! Post a Truth or Dare with a Donation Amount of Your Choice (Starting at at least $5 dollar donations for "Truths" and $10 donations for "Dares" ). If we accept your "Truth" or "Dare" ( monetary value should apply here -the crazier the dare the higher the donation should be or we may not accept it lol ) we will video and post us accomplishing it after donation is made to our adoption paypal fund and then post it within 48hours (hopefully sooner but may have a hubby on shift !) ! You can "Truth" or "Dare" any one of us (Megan, Ryan, or Zoe..or as a family or couple etc...). Please keep all "Truth" or "Dares" tasteful and legal ! Thank you . Let the games begin. Please Help Us Bring "Nick" home and lets have some fun! If anyone would like to join our game let us know ! You can accept "truth" or "dares" and donate to our adoption ! We will post videos here and on FB. 

The First Blog

  So you guys, this is my first blog post in like over 10 years so give me some slack. I don't think I have "blogged" since I was a hormonal 18 year old...I'm pretty sure I only had one or two posts and it wasn't anything worth reading ( though at the time I am sure I thought it was pure genius). If any of you know Ryan and I well, you know a "blog" is a big step for us.  We tend to be a little old fashioned....if you have seen what kind of phone's we use, you would understand. But we like it that way !  It has taken me some time just to get this thing started, since we made our adoption decision "public" about a month ago.  Between feeding children and chickens (yes we have chickens) and just navigating through all the ins and outs of international adoption, getting time to sit down and write a blog is a challenge.  We are kind of off to a slow start, but that is okay.  We don't really have a clue what we are doing but why would we, we have never adopted before.  So if all this is news to you, or if you are reading this and have no idea who we are (or how you found this blog) hang on because I am about to explain. We are the Yaklin's.  There are 4 of us (not counting chickens) for the time  being and we are working on a number 5. No, there is no bun in the oven, but we are expecting.   A little boy from Eastern Europe to be exact.  If you still haven't caugth on, we are adopting, internationally (yes we are a little crazy).   If  you had told me , oh, say even 3 months ago, that we would be trying to adopt a little boy from overseas, I may have had a puzzled yet excited look on my face. My husband would have flat out laughed.  The truth is there is only one thing that brought us down this path at this time in life, and that is God.
   You guys, I started writting a really generic blog, and I had to erase it. I even changed the title.  I guess I was being kind of cowardly, wanted to keep everything pretty "universal" so everyone would like it and support us.  Simply put, that is not what I am after. I am not looking for everyone too neccesarily like what I have to say.  However, I would love if we had a lot of support.  That is what we are going to need to accomplish this incredible feat ahead of us.  Yet, I am aslo looking to stir things up.  That is the only thing that creates change.  I will tell you flat out what I am trying to change.  It is two things. The life of a little boy and your outlook. Don't worry, I am not going to write about throwing away your iPhone and getting chickens.  Yet, I may make you uncomfortable with some of the things I say. So I am just going to be real on this blog and tell you everything.  Not just what you may want to hear about a warm and fuzzy adoption of a little boy.  That hopefully will come too, yet, your wait won't be as long as mine.  I already love this boy and have cried for him to be home.  Have I met him, no, but I see him everyday, sitting across the table from me at mealtime. We have a seat waiting for him, but 3 months ago, it was just an extra chair.

     
   
Yes, those are our children and a couple of our chickens.