Taxes

Taxes.  What is there to say?  Some people hate them, some people love them, meh- I could go either way depending on what part of the step in doing them we are on.

I do a majority of the record keeping (not just for taxes, I'm a filing WIZ! seriously, it's a talent!), so I'm in charge of getting together all the documents.

Pretty fair deal, because Travis makes most of the money! 

This year, I had been reading around on the adoption tax credit.  I learned that you could now take the credit on failed adoptions, and found the detailed way to do it when filing your return.

I talked to my friend who is a tax professional, and she said yes, indeed, the fees, the postage, the meals, the travel, the flowers, it was all related to that little boy, who was born on December 30th. She said we had every right to say the adoption failed on December 31st, when the birthparents asked us to leave the hospital.

It wasn't easy, I spent several hours on the phone with our tax software (H.&.R Block- online).  It's free for military at Militaryonesource.com.  So, it's what we use.  They told me how to get around their 'glitch', and I was reassured that it would work, and there were already several comments that had been escalated about the 'glitch' in dealing with failed adoptions (you had to enter a SSN, but with a failed match, you never get one- you have to put in 123-45-6789, and then white it out when you print it out.)

But- I got it done.  We sent it off, and wondered, if it was really true.  Would we really be able to use the credit for our failed match. 

It was true.  We got all the money we spent, which was more then we realized when we added it all up. 

A huge blessing, in the midst of heartache, there was a blessing that will help us fund our next adoption.