What a long weekend! We finished up with our first weekend of our adoption fund rasier garage sales. We did pretty good! I am hoping that we can raise even more money the next two weekends.
We were given piles of clothing to sell. There wasn't a shortage of that!
With all of this uncertainty about the financial part of the adoption, some questions have started to arise in our minds. I would love to get opinions on it from other families who have adopted. The program we are going through, will end up costing around 30,000 all together. You can see the run down here. We assumed that the huge amount (the 15,000 - 26,500) that we have to pay the placing agency would be us paying for the birthmother's hospital care. Our question is... doesn't every state have some sort of health plan available for women who are considered poverty level? Here in Oregon, we have the Oregon Health Plan available to use if you were considered below poverty level. If that is the case, wouldn't the birth mother be getting free health care?? Why would we be paying over 15,000 dollars? It doesn't add up. After looking over some of the international adoptions from Ethiopia, it seems like it would be a lot less expensive to adopt international. I always thought that domestic adoptions would be cheaper since it is all with in the states. Interesting. Well, I'd love to get opinions and information about it if anyone has any for me. It wouldn't be fun changing agencies mid way through, but it is virtually impossible to come up with that much money at one time. *sigh* As Adam's co-worker says..."we do what we can do, and that is all we can do"
I know that God is in control, and we do need to trust that His timing is perfect. It gives me comfort to think about that.
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