[Abdulina]

Just wondering if anyone has tried to adopt 4 or more children all at once from the same region. We will be adopting 4, possibly 5 all from the same region, 3 different orphanages. Girl (14), girl(10), --brother (1or 2yo), boy(7) and possibly our son's new baby brother(guessing about a year by time of adoption). Has anyone on here ever attempted something of this nature before? This is uncharted territory for us and we'd love opinions. We are going to try to work with the same agency. Though we've considered different ones due to the financing of this all. We have not officially talked fees yet with the agency. We'll do that in August when we are ready to officially start this process again. Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated. I know it will be tricky but also know for a fact it has been done before by someone. Thanks in advance for all your help.

Sincerely,

Stephanie

P.S.-- if any of you know of good places to find reasonably priced large vehicles (used shuttle bus/ passenger vans), please let us know.

[Bcelli]

Try a sheriff's or state police auction for the vehicles. Also, you can get a good deal on 1YO rental vehicles that have been turned over for sale. We did that with our Blazer and paid less than $17K and it's loaded out. It's paid for now and has 149,000 miles on it and has never had a major repair. It's been a great truck - but you need something bigger, like those airport shuttles... Good luck with the kids. We're praying for you.

[kajohn345]

I, personally, have not adopted multiples from Russia, but I know that a family in the Seattle area adopted 5 siblings. There was an article in the newspaper about them. If you are interested in the agency, I can PM you the website and on the website there is a link somewhere to the article (that is where I read it). It can be done!

Katrina