Monday, March 5, 2007

Shopping for Baby!

So besides the bad news that we received about my grandmother on Sunday, Saturday was actually a great day for us. We went shopping and bought some necessities. We wanted to get the bear neccessities "just in case". We are now the proud owners of a carseat, bassinet, lots of cute clothes - for a boy or a girl, soft blankets, newborn diapers ( they are just the cutest), bottles, cloth diapers and a snugli. We also bought everything we need for bath time and diapering time. There is so much that we still need to purchase, but I feel that if we got a call at the last minute we could at least bring the baby home and survive a couple of days.

Speaking of getting calls. We have made progress today. We got our classes scheduled that are necessary for a domestic adoption by our homestudy agency ( a feat in itself) and the best news is that we got a call from our adoption agency. They have another couple they are referring us to. They are 2 college students and the baby is due in May! The agency e-mailed us their picture and they are a beautiful latino / european couple! We have to find out more details tormorrow. The one thing I do know is that the adoption is a little out of our price range, so we have to see if we can make it work. We will not make any rash decisions. We will get all the details and weigh our options. If it is meant for us to have this little one then we will. I believe that God knows what he is doing and will give us the baby we are meant to have!

Here is one of our purchases from the weekend. Annabelle let me use her as a guinea pig. She resisted being put in it at first, but then loved it and did not want to get out. She enjoyed being carried around by her mama! You can see our other "kids" from around the world in the background. We help to support 20 children from around the world every month. We are constantly getting letters and pictures from them. It is a great feeling!

3 comments:

Angel said...

WOW! How exciting!!! It could be really quick. WILD. Angel

Lucinda Naia said...

I'm hoping you match with great birthparents very, very soon!

Do you mind if I ask how much more expensive it is compared to Guatemala? One of my girlfriends spent $30K on her domestic adoption so I always thought of that as the ballpark amount. Is it more than that?

Kelley said...

Hi Lucinda,
No I don't mind at all. Every domestic adoption is different depending on if the mother has health insurance ( or is on public assistance), if she needs a place to live, and if it is an interstate adoption. The fee they quoted us for the case last week was $13,000. The price for this case will be between $25,000 to $30,000. We budgeted about $35,000 to $40,000 for the adoption from Guatemala. We had already spent $8,000 on the Guatemalan adoption. So we are kind of cutting it close. However, I am sure if it is meant to happen then it will.