Tomorrow...
...we get to sign our contract with the state. This contract is back-dated to Feb. 1st and declares us the adoptive parents with the state. The contract also includes information about our reimbursement rate for daycare (only 80% because we make too much money - HA!), our keeping Cookie's medical card, and Cookie's adoption subsidy.
That will be another great moment. THIS time I will be sure to take pictures of Cookie as she will undoubtedly be trying to sign something.
After that, we will be waiting for the Guardian ad Litem to call us to schedule a time to come out to our house. The GAL is appointed to represent Cookie, and that person will write up a report and submit it to the court that says Cookie should be adopted by us - sound mind, good moral character, blah blah blah...
THEN we can hopefully get our court date. There is a bit of bad news associated with that. IF we do not get March 2nd, we will have to wait until May 4th because our adoption attorney is out of town the first week in April, and our judge only does adoptions on the first Friday of the month. If we don't get March 2nd, it will be a long wait for us. It will be okay, but it will be hard on us. We feel it is so close to the end, but little things can really hold up the process. We've done everything as fast as we could, but you can't always count on the judge's schedule (or the judge's secretary).
So, if you're someone who likes to pray for specifics - please pray the GAL calls us ASAP, and that we get on for March 2nd. We would so like for all of this to be behind us.
That will be another great moment. THIS time I will be sure to take pictures of Cookie as she will undoubtedly be trying to sign something.
After that, we will be waiting for the Guardian ad Litem to call us to schedule a time to come out to our house. The GAL is appointed to represent Cookie, and that person will write up a report and submit it to the court that says Cookie should be adopted by us - sound mind, good moral character, blah blah blah...
THEN we can hopefully get our court date. There is a bit of bad news associated with that. IF we do not get March 2nd, we will have to wait until May 4th because our adoption attorney is out of town the first week in April, and our judge only does adoptions on the first Friday of the month. If we don't get March 2nd, it will be a long wait for us. It will be okay, but it will be hard on us. We feel it is so close to the end, but little things can really hold up the process. We've done everything as fast as we could, but you can't always count on the judge's schedule (or the judge's secretary).
So, if you're someone who likes to pray for specifics - please pray the GAL calls us ASAP, and that we get on for March 2nd. We would so like for all of this to be behind us.
posted by No Longer In Crisis @ 2/05/2007 09:48:00 AM
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