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04/06/2004: "Agencies"

music: cake (but i'm listening to the cd so go figure)
mood: Tired

Well we are trying to decide on an agency. Wow there are alot of adoption agencies out there. Every time we start to like one we seem to find something wrong with it, either a bad recomendation (horror story), or just something we don't like. We are looking at 2 now and will probably end up with one of them, in reality we are really just looking at 1 of the 2 as realistic but continuing to research the other one as a comparison. Alaska Internation Adoptions is the one we are most likely to pick right now. International Assistance Group is the second but they require an in person interview (they are in pittsburgh) and some "homework". They are also a few thousand dollars more expensive. So for now we'll keep digging at both, we haven't found any bad reviews for either yet, the closest was someone complaining that IAG refused them becuase of the husbands medical issues. Without really knowing what was going on in that situation it's hard to consider that a bad review (we just have the person's side with little detail). But becuase of the travel and extra costs for IAG that will probably rule them out. So as of now it's looking like AIA but we need to make sure we cover all the bases in researching them.

Wednesday 4/7 we go for our first real homestudy appointment (yay!) and we should have our passports in about 3 or 4 weeks. We'll soon have our birth and marriage certificates so we can send out our I600A to the CIS (new name for INS) to get started on getting our I171H that allows us to adopt a foreign child.

So the process is starting to move

Now I just need to get to sleep earlier tonight.