I continued to be so humbled and amazed by how God is
aligning all the steps for us to adopt.
After so many dark, lonely, and painful years, we see the light!
If
you’ve been following on our journey (I doubt many have, as I struggle to
update this blog often!) you know
that we’ve been saving for several years to begin this journey. We started work on a homestudy in
November 2012, had an approved homestudy by March 2013, identified ‘our’
waiting child in April, and our dossier was shipped to Hong Kong on May 31st. Currently, we are waiting to be
officially matched with this child, and then take the steps to secure a travel
date (!).
In
early June, we met a savings goal for this adoption - $25,000 total saved,
which should more or less cover all adoption expenses (including fees we have
already paid).
I
am still astounded as to how that happened…but I’ll do my best to explain how
we accomplished that.
We
didn’t fundraise, ask people for money, or apply for grants. Not that we think there is anything
wrong with that, but our area and situation wasn’t conducive to fundraising, we
weren’t comfortable asking people for money, and by the time we were able to
look at grants it was clear that we didn’t need them.
We
did: Live on one income (my husband’s) while saving mine (minus tithe and
taxes) for three years. The first
year, I was working around 20-25 hours per week; the next two years it was a
full 40 with the exception of summer and vacations. We saved part or all of any
money we were given as gifts. I
signed up to be a consultant for Lilla Rose, started playing organ for church
on occasion, and put those earnings into our adoption fund.
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