I don't know if anyone is still watching this blog, but, we have news:
Almost four years after beginning our kitchen remodeling project, we have finally ordered our wall cabinets!!
Our last update was December 2008, two months before Isaac was born! At that point our plan was to save enough money to use cash to buy the cabinets. We actually had the money saved by that spring, but Isaac had to spend a week in the hospital with RSV, and our cabinet money went toward our medical insurance deductible.
We started saving again, and by the time we saved up enough, Isaac was needing tests for some minor developmental delays, including a very expensive MRI. There went our cabinet money toward another deductible. Soon after that, we needed to buy a car, so there wasn't much hope of saving up very quickly.
This week, however, we finally received the balance of our federal adoption tax credit. Yay! After several months of letters from the IRS asking for more paperwork proving the adoption, and proving the expenses toward the adoption, they decided we qualified for the credit. The day after the money was deposited in our checking account, we headed to Home Depot to order the cabinets.
I'm not sure how long it will be till they come in, but we will certainly post some pictures of the process, and the completed kitchen.
