Agreement – CHECK!
ByWe got our adoption agreement signed, notarized and sent off to Oregon! Yay! Everything went very smoothly. We had the assistant manager of our bank notarize it so that we could use only him for all of the forms. I’ve read that doing that can make it easier/less expensive to have everything authenticated later on. We made sure his signature matched his seal and that his commission wouldn’t expire anytime soon. He’s good until 2012, so hopefully we’ll have been home for at least a year or two by then!!
I was catching up on the adoption blogs to which I subscribe, which made me think of a question that Stephen and I thought of the other night. So, those who have gone through the home visit portion of their home study, did you have to have your child’s room set up already? N.B.’s room is currently still our guest room and we weren’t sure if we were expected to already have it set up as a little boy’s room yet. I think that it’s probably not a big deal; that the social worker probably just wants to make sure our house is safe and that showing her the room that will be his room is probably okay. Do y’all have any thoughts on it? Should we try to get working on getting the room together?
I am sure it depends on your state, but here in NC we just had to have the space for our little one (not set up). I think it would be hard to ask a family to do that as some waits in other countries are YEARS! It would be so hard to have a empty room set up for that long!
We are glad things are moving along for you!
We didn’t need to have a room set-up, but we needed to show that we had a room intended for the new baby (right now it it used as an office and guest room with a pull-out sofa). We also needed to show child-proofing in our home to some extent (mainly that chemicals and unsafe items were out of the reach of children and locked away).