Monday, September 25, 2006


Sorry I haven't written in a while. Things have been crazy..............work, work, work!!!! On the adoption forefront, we completed the final financial paperwork for our homestudy agency (we filled out and gave them our financial statement showing our assets and liabilities, and gave them Mike's letter from his employer verifying his employment/salary). So all we have left to do is to get my letter of income verification (since I am an independent contractor OT, my letter has to come from a CPA). This has proven to be incredibly difficult as we did not have our own CPA. We must have contacted a hundred CPA's who all replied in the same way....."Sorry, but we cannot write this letter for you, as you are not a client, and we did not prepare your taxes....But, good luck anyway." Grrr. What made us mad is that we have all of our 1099s and W2s and tax returns to prove my income, so this really should not be that difficult. We even offered to pay the CPA's to reprepare our 2005 taxes, just so we could get this letter....nothing. We then promised all the CPA's that we would use them to prepare our taxes in 2006, just so we could get the letter...nothing. Then I promised to use their financial planning service and have them prepare our taxes.....finally, I got a bite! So, the CPA will be drafting the letter for us for $250....a bit pricey, but whatever it takes to bring home our baby, right? He said it should be ready by tomorrow....hooray! After this, we need to get our physicals redone (we have appointments on Friday), send our completed homestudy to Immigration, get fingerprinted, send our papers off to China....and we're done and onto bigger and better things (the waiting game for about a year until China matches us with a baby), but our paperwork will be done. The wait will be hard, though, especially since Emily asks us every day when we are going to get her baby sister from China.