Friday, we received the suckiest of the sucky news so far in this process ... andi if you've followed this blog at all, our path has been littered with sucky things. First the move, then the re-doing of the documents, then the delays in redoing the docs, then ... well, you get the picture.
So, on to the news. On Friday, we gat a call from our agency telling us that we will need to reduce our request from two children to one because we are renting an apartment and the Russian government frowns upon and will NOT approve anyone renting for more than one child.
So off to the message boards I go. One person posted an affirmative reponse saying that this happened to their friend. Ok, fine. We can accept this if it is prescidence. However, a couple of days later, someone else posted that they just successfully adopted LAST MONTH and are renting an apartment ... and were very open about renting an apartment.
Oy.
Freaking.
Vey.
Talk about frustration.
So we have an email sent back to our agency telling them of this information that we discovered and what exactly we can do to make the majic number two children again.
On the good news side, we're in the process of re-negotiating our lease on the townhouse, and it looks like we'll get a new hot water heater, new windows and doors, AND a washer and dryer out of the deal. In addition, the rent only goes up $125 a month. Sounds like a good deal to me. (Rents have been averaging $1700 in this complex and this would bring ours to about $1475, which is still WAY under the norm.)
In other news, we spent the holiday with my parents and my sister. We even brought along our cat. He had a great time, but wouldn't let either me or DH out of his sight. It was so cute!
Now I'm plagued with insomnia, and waiting for our direct deposit to update to our checking account so I can pay bills and kill some more time.
*sigh*
Hope everyone had a healthy and happy holiday season!
The Next Step in life is often the most frightening. This is my attempt to understand it, think it through and move on to the next.
Thursday, December 29, 2005
Monday, December 19, 2005
YAYAYAY
We're moving at "full steam ahead" pace!
We just received the draft of our homestudy, and its pretty good. Minor grammatical mistakes. Just personal preferences, really, so I'll mark those and send it back for update.
DH is really getting excited, as, obviously, am I.
Once the paperwork goes over, which should be in a few weeks, we're going to celebrate by going to our (NEW!) local IKEA, and scoping out the kid furniture.
The current wait time is 12 months (sounds better than a year), which is MUCH longer than we want, but there's not much anyone can do about it, so there it is.
DH got a promotion, and I got a permanent job, which both of us are thrilled about. My new job even has on site daycare, which I am over the moon about. I'm planning on taking time off when the kids get here (a year), but when I go back to work (if I do), things will be in place for life to be easier than anticipated.
You gotta love when that happens. :)
We just received the draft of our homestudy, and its pretty good. Minor grammatical mistakes. Just personal preferences, really, so I'll mark those and send it back for update.
DH is really getting excited, as, obviously, am I.
Once the paperwork goes over, which should be in a few weeks, we're going to celebrate by going to our (NEW!) local IKEA, and scoping out the kid furniture.
The current wait time is 12 months (sounds better than a year), which is MUCH longer than we want, but there's not much anyone can do about it, so there it is.
DH got a promotion, and I got a permanent job, which both of us are thrilled about. My new job even has on site daycare, which I am over the moon about. I'm planning on taking time off when the kids get here (a year), but when I go back to work (if I do), things will be in place for life to be easier than anticipated.
You gotta love when that happens. :)
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