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About Me
- heidi r weimer
- Nashville, Tennessee
- I am a 30-something nose-ringed mom to ten-going-on-something stellar kids (4 via my belly and 6 via adoption from Ethiopia), wife to one heroic husband, children's book author, lover of justice, adoption promoter, and sold-out follower of Jesus. My mantra: "My life is not my own." And one day that will be my tattoo. Maybe.
"My Life Is Not My Own" Orange Bracelets
Promo for Documentary on our Family
The Weimer Bunch
Our First Adoption Homecoming (January 2008)
Our Motto and Mantra
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Time in Ethiopia
Blog Archive
Books We've Read & Think You Should, Too
- A Long Way Gone...Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Ishmael Beah)
- Always Enough: God's Miraculous Provision among the Poorest Children on Earth (Heidi and Rolland Baker)
- Dispatches from the Edge (Anderson Cooper)
- Fields of the Fatherless (C. Thomas Davis)
- Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World (Bill Clinton)
- Good News About Injustice: A Witness of Courage in a Hurting World (Gary Haugen)
- Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical (Shane Claiborne)
- Justice in the Burbs: Being the Hands of Jesus Wherever You Live (Will Samson, Lisa Samson)
- Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade--and How We Can Fight It (David Batstone)
- Terrify No More: Young Girls Held Captive and the Daring Undercover Operation to Win Their Freedom (Gary Haugen and Gregg Hunter)
- There is No Me Without You (Melissa Fay Greene)
- Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most (Dr. Wess Stafford)
4 comments:
Thank you, We didn't get our adoption finalized yet for taxes but didn't know about the w-7a for a dependent!
Congrats on #10! I keep up on your blog and twitter page and rejoice with you and your new family! Thanks again for the heads up.
Anita
Also- (if it helps anyone reading...)
We filled for our adopted son's SS# but of course it is going to take weeks to get the card in- delaying our ability to file a return. But if you ask NICELY :), the SS office WILL notify you once a number has been assigned so that you don't have to wait the number of weeks for the physical card to come in the mail. Just FYI!
OH Thanks!!! just called the office yesterday...still havent applied for our daughters ss card...great thought Amy about asking for the number even if the card hasnt come yet! Gotta get this adoption tax credit stuff going. After 4 years...its time to turn in all those receipts I've misplaced!
Jen
We got our daughter's SS#, but have come to find out that if you only have guardianship (we adopted from India and that's all they give you- adoption must be fully done Stateside), you have to have been guardians for *6 months* to claim the child as a dependent! And, of course, the tax credit can't be claimed until the adoption has been finalized. So, looks like in 2011 we'll finally be able to see some of our adoption reflected in our taxes. We only stated this all back in 2006! Oh well. :-)
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