Wow its been forever since I posted here! Thats about to change folks! Jason and I have been praying about  wanting to expand our family for years now, since Makenna was a wee one. While we are grateful and thankful and thrilled with her, our true Miracle from the Lord we just dont believe we are done expanding our family. While we have explored several options and seen and heard great stories of numerous ways to welcome another child into our home we have decided domestic adoption is the best, most reachable goal for us at this time. Let me note that we are open to the Lords calling in other directions, but will pursue domestic adoption until that door closes. Right now we are thinking we would love to find a little girl age 5-8 that needs a forever family for whatever reason.

We were going to do the traditional foster care to adopt route but feel like emotionally we and Makenna would have a really hard time saying goodbye when/if the time came. We then learned that our county does not offer hom estudy services unless you are becoming a foster parent (which I guess I understand because if they did them taking up the manpower/etc and then a family decided to adopt a child from another county/state, etc they would be doing it for nothing still having the same caseload as before....while I may not agree I do understand their logic I think). Soooo....

We are pursuing domestic US adoption most likely through foster care.

While we make enough money to pay monthly bills we dont have sums of money lying around to fork out for adoption costs, and no cc, etc. Some people would stop there. Not us!! Where there's a will there's a way, when the Lord calls he answers!

So....we are trying to raise money however we can to pay for costs associated with our adoption. The first and biggest cost we will encounter doing this type of adoption through foster care will be our private home study . We are researching the most affordable way..but it appears that its $1300-$1900 depending on the agency you choose, etc. There will also be a little bit of fees after a child were to come home with us....like post placement,etc...some places that $1900 includes such visits as well as the adoption court to finalize.

The fees are drastically lower adopting an already waiting child from the foster care system then say a domestic private newborn (10-30K on average)...but still seem huge for us!