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As far as adopting large sibling groups, we are in the process of doing that as well. We have a 32 month old that we brought home from the hospital. We adopted her. It's a beautiful story, that I will share at some other time. Presently, we reside in Kansas. However, we lived in Ohio for the past 11 years. Our daughter was adopted in Ohio and we did not receive any subsidy due to the nature of the adoption. We had wanted to adopt one more so since moving to Kansas we looked into adopting, and have just finished our courses to become foster parents. We will be receiving our first to foster children in 2 weeks. They are siblings age 9 and 10. They are in state custody because both parents passed away. If things work out, we will adopt. However, we recently learned that are 2 of a 9 sibling group. Yes, 9! We didn't want to split them, so we are looking at adopting 7 of the 9. The two oldest have entered independent living. We have no clue what the subsidy will be. As a matter of fact, we were in the process of buying a larger home, but now, we will have to buy an even larger home. What about transportation? Oh, I forgot to mention that I have 3 step children that will be living with us as of June. My husband is a college dean, and I was a school teacher for 12 years. However, I think that I am going to take some time off due to the drastic changes that will take place in our family. I will let you know how this turns out. We are started out fostering. We can't bring all seven in until we have a larger home. Presently we only have a 3 bedroom home. I am going to trust God and take 2 vacations a year. I think that its great when large sibling groups can be adopting.
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