Life Lately - an update

Quick journey update: Thanks Lillian Moy for pushing me to do this again. I’m doubling this post as an update to where we have been since last September’s conference:

We sent in our application to MHB - Men Having Babies in November, quick close to the deadline and since then have had a psych evaluation in January for the application. we honestly didn’t know what to expect since we both have never been formally evaluated by a psychologist. We were expecting that it would be quite an intimidating experience, but in reality it was quite cut and dry. We have both watched enough TV shows to be paranoid and not really know what to expect 🤣. It felt very much like a confirmation of our application, questions that essentially were verbally confirmed that can be evaluated that a text application can not psychologically confirm.

In early February we had a follow up interview with Mandie, the coordinator between the members/applicants and the applicant reviewers. This was more an informal conversation about everything related to the application on top of questions to clarify certain details. WAY less intimidating than a formal paycheck evaluation.

This application is now undergoing review (or about to) and will have rankings of all applicants by Mid summer and awarding partnerships with organizations that will offer pro-bono services.

In tandem we’re pursuing a fertility grant that would also help us get to where we need to go (submission is due today March 7th and we submitted last weekend, see the trend? 🤣) this grant application is potentially less likely a winner and we can only apply twice in total ever.

In the meantime we’re still saving as aggressively as possible, with the rise in inflation and some costs that seem to just pop up (own a home they say!) we’re poking the community to continue to ask for help to give us a chance of starting sooner. We’re getting there, we know it, this year will be the year and we can feel it.

Thanks in advance

Jay + Erik