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How's that for a title ?  This is what Maggie thought of the IRS audit !  The government has a wonderful adoption tax credit for qualifying adoption expenses.  So, we kept every receipt, cancelled check and statement that had to do with Maggie's adoption just in case we were ever audited.  And this was the year the IRS decides to audit almost everyone that has adopted recently. Which is funny to me because after you have gone through all the paperwork, Hague, governmental,adoption, jump through hoops yah yah  - you just kind of go with it. I think it is safe to say that if you have adopted Internationally, you are pretty organized now with records and paperwork and the IRS is not so intimidating.  Let's pray they think my record keeping is as good as I think it is ! And then if the IRS wasn't enough, Will had Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Last Monday he went to a farm with Chuck and a friend. Then two days later we noticed two ticks, bu...

Do you hear it ? A big sigh of relief.  I finished my last adoption paperwork and I now hold in my hands an Alabama Certificate of Foreign Birth ( aka a birth certificate ).   The mother's name is Kathy and the father's name is Chuck.  So awesome !  Now, all you adoptive parents are nodding your head ands saying " yes " ! This is what Maggie thought of it.   She was not impressed, but I was.   This picture has nothing to do with her beautiful birth certificate.   She was just telling me she was cold. Cool !

I am still doing adoption paper work one year later. In the state of Alabama, you have to apply through your local courthouse to re-adopt.  The re-adoption will then allow us to get Maggie an Alabama birth certificate. Personally, I think it is crazy to have to re-adopt my child that is fully adopted and fully my child. Crazy !!! But, since I am at the mercy of this insane governmental laws right now, I spent most of the day yesterday doing paperwork and gathering the necessary forms so that we can re- adopt our already adopted daughter. I was told you don't have to have a lawyer in order to re adopt in Alabama.  So, I just did all the work myself. I figure if I can put a Dossier together for China, I can fill out a couple of forms.  And I did.  It was pretty easy and the clerk at the courthouse said it looked fine.  So, I am not sure why some people use a lawyer and spend hundreds of dollars ?  Let's pray I did everything right and we w...