One month and one day
I can't believe that this hosting thing is all happening so fast! One month from tommorrow!
On Saturday we had a meeting with all the other families - outlining the schedule and talking about what to expect. The adoption coordinator was there too so we got to talk to her and she gave us more paperwork and things to do.
So now we are applying for our homestudy, applying for our I-600A (Govt. form for adopting an orphan), and getting our pre-lims together (telling Russian govt. that we are interested in adopting A). All that means is a lot of paperwork, a lot of apostiles, and a lot of filling out the same information over and over again.
Yesterday Brent applied for his passport, which put us over the $1000 mark for spending on this adoption. It seems like a lot, but in the whole process, it's just a drop in the bucket.
A cool money story though - we plan to apply for financing and grants and such to help pay for the process, but we can't really do that until our homestudy is finished, and that in itself costs $3K. If we had to save that all up it might take us a couple of months, and we sure didn't want to wait. We also did our taxes right hoping we'd get an extra hundred that would help. Nope - we're getting enough back this year that it will pay for our homestudy, plus all that extra stuff I listed before (almost another thousand). That was completely unexpected! Previous years we've had to pay in thousands, or come out exactly even. So we're very very thankful for that, obviously - and now we have a little more reprieve before the big expenses come.
That's it for now. :)
On Saturday we had a meeting with all the other families - outlining the schedule and talking about what to expect. The adoption coordinator was there too so we got to talk to her and she gave us more paperwork and things to do.
So now we are applying for our homestudy, applying for our I-600A (Govt. form for adopting an orphan), and getting our pre-lims together (telling Russian govt. that we are interested in adopting A). All that means is a lot of paperwork, a lot of apostiles, and a lot of filling out the same information over and over again.
Yesterday Brent applied for his passport, which put us over the $1000 mark for spending on this adoption. It seems like a lot, but in the whole process, it's just a drop in the bucket.
A cool money story though - we plan to apply for financing and grants and such to help pay for the process, but we can't really do that until our homestudy is finished, and that in itself costs $3K. If we had to save that all up it might take us a couple of months, and we sure didn't want to wait. We also did our taxes right hoping we'd get an extra hundred that would help. Nope - we're getting enough back this year that it will pay for our homestudy, plus all that extra stuff I listed before (almost another thousand). That was completely unexpected! Previous years we've had to pay in thousands, or come out exactly even. So we're very very thankful for that, obviously - and now we have a little more reprieve before the big expenses come.
That's it for now. :)
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posted by Tracy at 5:33 AM
1 Comments:
Wow! Somehow I had missed/overlooked/forgotten that you were in the adoption process! And an orphan from Russia! (You know we used to live in Ukraine. . .) Praying for you and your child.
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