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Shelly
Shelly,
No we have not done our homestudy yet. We have not done it yet for several reasons, one is that I think we still have hope that we can afford to go with the facilitator we liked, and since the homestudy id only good for one year we don't want to get it done too soon, and then have to pay to have it re-newwed. Also different agencies, and the state sometimes have homestudyies done of their own so we don't want to pay twice for something either. Once we find out a bit more about what we are going to do, we will have it done. If we are going to be adopting through the state the $350 includes the homestudy, so it would be in our best interet to wait and see if that's the way we will ahve to go. If not I have a packet already filled out to a lady that was recomenede by a friend that did her homestudy and she only costs $700. If we end up going through the facilitator, we could use her, also if we end up going independently we can use her. lol only $700.. yes it's a lot less than some other homestudy fees, but we don't even have enought to do it just yet.
That's good that you guys are thinking of doing an independent adoption for now at least. For us I don't want to actively start one. We don;t really want to start putting ads in paper and al that because it seems that it would be unlikely that someone would respond,and when they would we would have just about spend as much on ads, and other methods that we could have paid a agency. Since we do have the option for that state program, we want to sit tight for now. I do hope tat if you start an independent search you get a baby fast. Have you heard of that happening? I don't know that much about doing an independednt search. The best thing would be if we where able to adopt from one of those girls I told you about. But we will just have to wait and see.
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