We’re bored
My husband joked that we’re bored. We are currently trying to sell our house, buy a house, put a book together for potential birth moms, meeting with social workers….everything is swirling around us at once! AND, work has been the busiest and most stressful for me that it’s been so far! Yipee!
The first meeting with social worker S.T. to start the home study is scheduled for June 13th.
We found a house we LOVE with this huge backyard, we made an offer, but the realtor selling that house couldn’t get a hold of the sellers. Well, by the time they got a hold of the sellers ANOTHER offer was made on the house. The other offer I guess is similar to our offer, but there is no contingency on it. Our offers all say “we can only make this offer and buy it if our own house sells.” So, I am expecting they will take the other person’s offer over ours since they can buy the house free and clear. That’s what I would do.
so, I’m trying to prepare myself for the next round of looking at homes. Also, we have been talking with our adoption attorney about adoption fees. They come in around 11,000 to 12,000. There are tax credits (that is one good thing Bush administration has done that we’re greatful for) where you get most if not all of the money back that you’ve put into the adoption. However, the trick is having the money the previous year to throw out there for it. Hubby and I feel like we’ve been waiting forever for kids, and now everythng is happening at once, and I hate it that we have to think about if we can shell out that much money at once to adopt a child. We need to buy a bigger house that’s closer to work just to make our lives easier and have more room for child(ren), but then that brings down how much extra money we have to put into adoption. I had looked into grants from work but I guess our employer doesn’t do that. It just all seems very frustrating and unfair (as it always will), but we know other people have adopted and they’ve made it through this experience and it’s worked out in the end.
Posted by: DramaQueen | 06-07-2007 | 07:06 AM
Posted in: Husband | Progress | Moving | Frustration | home study
The money will come from somewhere…truly it does! Don’t loose hope on that. For Snuggle Bug’s adoption, we didn’t have to pay all the money upfront, rather in chunks. We had some saved, we put some things on our credit card (not ideal but it helped) and we borrowed $1,000 from my sister and paid her back that same year. Honestly, I think Snuggle Bug’s entire adoption cost $8,000 and we scraped the money together. You will too!
Best of luck to you!