The contract had about 13 different parts we had to sign and have notarized, plus the two agreements and duplicates. We took care of that today at our credit union, I was so glad to find out our credit Union offered this free service of notarizing for members. We signed both copies just in case something goes wrong and it gets lost. The poor notary had no idea what hit her. I warned her this was just the beginning and we will be back over the next few months with more. She said as we left "I'll be happy if I don't have to sign my name again the rest of the day." we had walked in about 10 min after they opened. haha!
We also got a home-study application with the packet, which is just a more detailed version of the original application to the agency. We are having an issue with that form though, it has boxes with heading of what to write in each box, like; name, address, city, state, etc. Well on the first page all those headings are in the first box of every row, some we can make out, but some rows are just impossible to tell what they want. We emailed someone last Thursday about it and asked for a digital copy to be sent of just the first page. We thought we got a response on Saturday, but it was just an email wanting some clarification on some things on our original application. So when we responded to that, Sunday, we asked again for the first page and still have not received an answer, as of this writing.
Just a few bumps already, nothing major. We will be sending in our first payments when we send back these forms. It was a little more then expected (okay like about 50% more) because I didn't realize they were going to want the money for the post adoption reports so soon, I thought that would come around the time of referral or later. Bulgaria requires post adoption reports every six months for two years after placement, so 4. We have to turn in $300 for each report for each child. sense we don't know if we are going to adopt one or two children we are sending in enough to cover two. If we end up with only one child that money will be refunded to us.
