I have finished shopping for 80% of my list, minus the child we’ve “adopted”. The way the “adoption” website is set up, you can pick a child or you can pick that child and her siblings (1 sibling, 4, whatever). You can see what the first child is asking for (books, shoes, jewelry) but you don’t know what the sibling(s) want until you’ve selected them. Therefore, child #1 could want Peace on Earth and a box of Macaroni & Cheese, but her 3 sisters could each want an adult sized bike and an XBox and then what do you do?
(then again, maybe if I adopted a family of 6 kids and bought them all bicycles, my karmic reward would be huge!)
Soooo, yes, we ended up adopting only the one child and I’m going to supplement this with some additional Toys For Tots purchases (note to self: tell Gene we have “adopted” a child). But that’s a good start, right?