We had great fun at the local China adoption group (Adoption Option) meeting last Friday. Lots of good food and great conversation, along with a primer about the paperwork we'll be faced with when we return. We met a couple we'll probably be traveling with! Eric and Tiffany are adopting a little boy from the same province as Brooke, and they have the same log-in-date and same agency. It was exciting meeting them - it makes it even more real. There's one more couple with the same timeline who belongs to the group, but we have not met them yet.
I called our county DFCS (Dept of Children & Fam Svcs) about the State funded "adoption expense reimbursement program". It can reimburse up to $2000!!!! What the DFCS rep told me was alittle different from what we learned from Adoption Option, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Every penny counts!!!!!! We'll get our form mailed tomorrow.
Both Mark and Olivia are on vacation this week, so it's fun. We're catching up on home repair, doing more adoption paperwork and getting ready for Easter dinner (a day early on Saturday). I've made the appt for my travel immunizations - April 20th. Ugh. Olivia was VERY brave and got her shots yesterday. She would have gotten them when she turned 5, but that would be after the trip. Her doc wanted her all done before we hit foreign soil. Check that off the list...
Mark is doing a drywall repair job in the garage and Olivia is helping/supervising him.
She's also been teaching herself to skate around the house. Look out roller derby!!!!!
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