Adoption Tax Credit

There are 163,000,000 children that need loving homes right now! That's a HUGE number of precious lives waiting for their home, their family!
One of the biggest obstacles for families who would like to adopt is the financial expenses of the adoption process. Right now there is a tax credit to help those who have gone through the process of bringing a precious child home. However, the government is trying to get rid of this!


This is what another blogger wrote about it:
"In 2013 the tax credit will be a maximum  of $6,000 for parents adopting children with special needs. There  will be no adoption tax credit available for all other adoptive parents beginning in tax year 2013."
Could you please sign the petition and tell your friends/family about it?
You can sign the petition at
  http://www.change.org/petitions/make-adoption-costs-fully-refundable-in-the-2012-2013-tax-years


You can read a bit more about it at A Place Called Simplicity.


Thank you so much!!!

Updates

Well, it's official: WE'RE HOMEOWNERS!  It seemed like the process took forever, but really it was quick and relatively smooth, and for that we are very thankful!

We feel so blessed to have been able to take such a huge step. We still have to wait a couple of months before we can move in. For now we are living with wonderful friends who opened up their home to us. Of course, my mind is already running with decorating ideas, I'm so excited!
As we signed the mountain of paperwork on Thursday, I kept thinking of the apartments we went to go look at just months ago, hoping for something affordable where we could live semi-comfortably for the next year. I remember making a list of things we were looking for and then slowly, as we looked at more and more overpriced apartments, turning that same list into things we could compromise on or could live without. As we prayed for God to show us where to live, we didn't imagine that He had something much better in store for us. He had a  house, our own house! How great is He?

 In other news, our beautiful little boy is 18 months old! Time has flown!!!!!! Parents used to tell us this all the time when we were expecting him, but man is it true! We celebrated by going for a long walk as a family - yesterday was the perfect spring day for long walks. It was warm with just enough of a breeze to cool us off! We ate at a local Mexican place nearby and enjoyed a relaxing day!

Bug continues to grow and develop. He is a very independent and curious toddler. We are also attempting to potty-train... key word ATTEMPTING. Bug has been such a good sport with the whole thing. He is slowly understanding what he's supposed to do, though he has more accidents than I would like.

He's also started talking A LOT MORE!! He talks all the time, in his baby language with some actual words thrown in the mix of his very long sentences! He loves to sing and dance. He also loves to play peek-a- boo. We seriously play at least 5 times a day, EVERY day!

Isn't he just so charming?!