We have been trying our best to come up with every way to pay for this adoption without putting our family at risk. We know we're probably in better shape than some families, but we had not planned on a fifth child or third adoption. And, of course, we'll do anything to bring our son home. We have some money in savings today, we're getting more out of our home by refinancing and cashing out what we responsibly can. Today we received some additional assistance from someone.
We had already hoped to go to Korea when the girls were older, just the girls and I. Now that someone has to go anyways to get JaeMin we felt this would be our one and only trip to Korea. We cannot leave the girls behind. They've had their hearts set on Korea for a long time. After we decided to go, we realized we couldn't leave the boys behind either. This alone will cost approximately $10,000 if we can get inexpensive tickets and some rooms at SWS' guest house. We expect the adoption to cost almost $41,000 with everything, including finalization afterward. Some money has to be spent to build a small bedroom in our basement garage for the older boys and JaeMin will have a room of his own; the girls share a room as well. Some money we'll need because I don't have enough leave time to take what I need with JaeMin and will need money to cover the leave without pay I'll take for him. The adoption alone, will deplete our savings, monetary gift we received and equity out of our home with nothing left.
Even with this...nothing left....we know there have been too many signs for this to be wrong. I tried to ignore them the first couple of days or so, but everytime I thought there was no way we could God showed me differently. It was me who had to be shown. Brian believed all along. God really did work in this. We can both see it. And now we're just a couple thousand $$ short of being able to do everything we need. That's amazing!
Lisa
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