It came and went!

It has been over a years since I got this blog!
17 October last year I started.

I actully am doing better than I thought I would at keeping up with it!

*cheers for me*

I am getting migrane right now, or else I would update you all on the adoption...
hopefully tomorrow...

Bed time now!

Just me,
Fran =)

*great big huge sigh of amazing relef*

Wow, that was an awsome meeting with the social worker!

The best bit of news was that all we pay is:
1- Application fee $250
2- Homestudy fee $950ish
3- Personal lawyer fee $? no clue $2000-6000 as a guess maybe more hopefully less...
4- Placement fee $11,000ish

Thats it. Now that seems a lot BUT we were expecting to pay an additional $5000-10,000 MORE for birthmother medical fees. But we do not! They are part of the placement fee! I asked the social worker that and when she said no, I just about cried I was so happy! Though I think she thinks I am a little nuts for asking it. But thats alright.

And Merlyn was a VERY good boy when she came. We have him meet her outside and he only jumped on her once (for him, thats great!).

The only down side she said was that they have a pool of 17-20 hopeful adoptive parents, and last year they only had 6 placements. That could mean a long wait. I hope not, my fingers are still crossed for a short short wait!

Oh yea, timeline for being done with homestudy - 6-8 weeks from end of homestudy classes, so we are talking about end of December start of new year until we are put on the waiting list =)
Not bad.

Pray for a short wait!

Just me,
Fran =)

better..

Well I went to the bank and talked to them about getting our line of credit extended. We were instantly approved.

*sigh*

You may now resume your baby shopping.

The social worker is coming on monday to do the intake interview.
I have begun the house cleaning tonight...
do you think that is enough time? ;)

Just me,
Fran =)

money blows!

I just talked to a social worker from the the adoption agency today so we can set up an intake interview.
She mentioned that she noticed that we applied a year ago and she wanted to inform us that their placement rates have gone up.
I said "Ahh...ok....."
She said that the DOUBLED!

*sigh*

She wanted to make sure that that did not make it to prohibitive.
I said, well, it will make it very hard to do, but if we do not do it now, we will keep putting it off and it will not happen.

I have to visit the bank tomorrow during my reak, I guess. We will see if we can get our line of credit (home equity) extended.

*grumble*
*grumble*
*grumble*

Just me,
Fran

I did it!

We registered at Target yesterday.
Well, I actully went with my friend Tara and registered, but either way it is done!
I am going to go thorough and edit it a bit, but I just wanted to let you all know.

I also chose a theme.
Dragonflies

Now, I know, in the past I said I was going to do classic Mickey. Sorry. It was not BABY enough for me. I hope that when we change it from nursery to toddler we can do Mickey.

Just alittle update for everyone!

Just me,
Fran =)