20 Percent

A funny thing happened the other day …

We asked our caseworker exactly how much we owed for our final payment and, unfortunately, the number she gave us was more than we were expecting. We were prepared for what we expected, but the new number was about 20% higher (gulp). To be honest, we weren’t exactly sure what to do about that extra 20%. Luckily, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday happened. 

On Thursday we got a check. On Friday we got a check. On Saturday we got a check. (Two of the checks were reimbursements we’d been waiting on, and we expected the third check much later.) None of the checks were overwhelmingly large by themselves, and the amounts were all kinda random, but when Annie added them up Saturday night, I couldn’t believe the total she came up with–it was the exact difference between the final payment we expected and the actual final payment. It was the 20%, right on the nose. OK, it was 21 cents less than the extra 20% we were trying to come up with, but we can probably find that in the couch cushions. 

So, that’s it–just one more crazy chapter in our adoption story. Three days, three checks, the exact amount we needed to complete our adoption. Coincidence? Sure …