Friday, January 26, 2007

The close of another month

Wow can you believe January is almost over? I feel like the months just flash by. Good news is that my crib is suppose to arrive in February. I am now working on the bedding. This is what I want (for today at least)

Now alls we need is a baby to put in this room.
We did get an email today from our agency. Nothing new on travel at all. Seems they are working on getting new orphanages but somehow that does not make this any easier as we approach 8 months from referral. What surprised me though is the email of travel expenses. I thought this was illegal in Vietnam. Our orphanage donation goes to the agency not the orphanage, we pay for a car and driver (wasn't that our international fee's?) and told to give $150-200 to the orphanage director $100 to the assistant director and $20 to each nanny being 5-10. This does not include the donations I made already of brand new clothes, formula (23 cans) toys, T.V they asked for.
The family that traveled with me in December said it was over $5000 by the time they were done WOW.

2 comments:

R&H said...

We were also very surprised with this!!!! We did NOT plan on paying all of those fees when we traveled, and it's making me very nervous!

Jo said...

These fees were not listed on the fee sheet we signed.....

SURPRISE!!!!

Why have I not seen enough

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Full time mom part time Maid, Cook, Gardner, Chauffer. Expert at folding panties that others find amusing to throw around the store. Adopted our son in 2005 and though g-d called many to adoption it was my desire to be a mom again that called me to adoption. We have one child from Kazakhstan and one from Vietnam and hope to add one more child to our family. Our dream started with China but I knew in Feb of 2006 that the projected 2 yr wait was at least 3 and I have no patience.