[mamae]

First a whine: I live in the middle of nowhere in NY. There are NO adoption agencies less than 1,5hs from me. (other than county of course... but they don't do homestudy for international adoption).

I would like to start this process as soon as possible because our fingerprintings are going to take longer than usual (once I am from Brazil and the check goes there too. In the between, hubby is citizen so it is not a problem).

Anyway. I called 26 agencies anywhere from 1,5hs to 3hs from here.

4 are not accredited
8 won't travel
2 only have classes starting in the fall so homestudy wont be done until November
3 refused to work with us because they have a program to that country and they only do homestudy for their clientes (BUT would do homestudy for us if we were adopting from a country they didn't have a program in)
I was able to get a positive from 1 who is asking $2000 (we were expecting no more than 1800 on it)
And the other 8 only had voice messages so I have no idea...

I am actually very surprised because when I went online and assembled my list of agencies to call, I was sooo sure I would end my morning with a "winner" but I am afraid that won't be as easy as I thought...

So much to start our homestudy ASAP :S