This is our new blog to document our journey to adopt three older Ukrainian girls. We live in Atlanta, Georgia USA
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
I think we found our new home!
Hello all, Andrew and I found the perfect new home for us to hopefully move into while we wait for the Emory housing to be built. We really wanted the girls to be in the Fernbank Elementary district since it is known for its international community (they have kids from over 20 countries in this school) and therefore a great ESL program that takes into account adopted kids lack of a bilingual home. It is a townhouse two block from Fernbank, and it is in our price range. It met my criteria (nice bath tubs for my bubble baths, and a big kitchen) and then some. It looks like a regular house from the street, and it only contains two townhomes - so we'd have only one neighbor who happens to be a childrens art teacher! The woman who is renting the home out is also an adoptive parent - of 4 kids! 3 are international so she totally understand what we are going through and has agreed not to charge us a deposit to move in all at once (she will split it up into payments for us). The price is the same as what we would pay at the Post Briarcliff apartments for a two bedroom with a storage unit. This is 3 bed 2.5 bath, with stand-up attic and two car garage. It also has this cool driveway courtyard in the back for the kids to rollerblade around in or draw on with chalk and a big deck off the kitchen for BBQ and summer lunches. Here are photos: