Friday, January 25, 2008

Lessons Learned

I saw someone else post something like this and thought it was a great idea for those of you that are also adopting from Kaz. I wish everyone would do this because we all could learn from others! I will try to keep this updated as we go through this journey.

1. Get Forms Apostilled ASAP- Our agency told us to wait until we had the 171h approval before apostilling. Big Mistake. We could have saved 2 weeks of time had we not done this. We encountered big problems with apostilling. One- our notary wording was wrong (hence the next one) and a few of the forms had a mistake on it with the notary

2. Verify Notary Wording with your Secretary of States Office

3. Make sure your Salary in your Homestudy matches the Salary on your Financial Form (the Homestudy asks for your Tax Return income and the Financial Forms asks for annual income so if you receive a bonus you have to add that in a separate place on your Financial Form)

4. Start keeping a Adoption Cost spreadsheet early so you have all dates and amounts you have spent (we did do this early:>)

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Off to Translate!

Got an email today saying our dossier is off to translation! We can finally sit back for a few months and let everyone else work! Of course this is the hard part because we have to sit and wait with nothing to do!

Davis keeps asking about his sister! It's so cute. He keeps saying he is going to help out with diapers and bottles! I wish he was a bit older to truly understand what is going on but I also want him to have a sister close in age. He loves babies right now! In fact, I just brought my babies that were mine home from my parents house and he is sleeping with one of them!

Monday, January 14, 2008

So we did screw up!

Well, apparently the salary of my husbands that was in the homestudy didn't match the salary on his employment sheet so we had to redo that form! Also, I apostilled the FBI fingerprint cards for Milon and I together and they should have been separate so I had to redo that also. Needless to say this post is old and I have already taken care of both.