Update...

Have I mentioned before how amazing our new social worker is:) Within an hour of her leaving our house last Friday, she emailed us with at least half of the answers to some questions we had. She informed us that the paper stated incorrectly and that the wait starts when the dossier is turned in (which we originally were told), if we choose a waiting child or get matched with a child with special needs our fees can/will be reduced, and some other information regarding grants.

Also, after many days of talking, thinking, and praying about the little boy's file we were presented with last week, we decided that at this time we would not be able to proceed. Some of his needs could have been more serious than we are willing to take at this point and honestly we just do not have another $10,000 lying around to give them for referral. It was so hard to say no to but I know that his family is out there waiting for him.

Speaking of money, we are doing one of our fund-raising ideas this weekend. Nothing huge, just a yard sale of all the "extra" things lying around the house. We have decided to go through the mounds of clothing and toys we have in the house and only keep what really fits and gets played with the most. We are also going through all of the baby items we have and see what we can get out of them. Since almost everything is for a girl (and we have a strong feeling that our next child will be a boy) we are going to sale as much as we can and then once our child is home buy for him/her age appropriate toys and clothing. I am also putting all of my longaberger baskets and boyds bears in there too. It's a little sad to see them go, but I would much rather see another child running around the house than those baskets collecting dust:)

Well off to pack up the van for the sale tomorrow...wish us luck!