An Answer to a question??????

We are always very grateful to our family, friends and friends of all of them for the support we get from everyone. We have received many emails with many questions and have responded to many. There has been one question we have gotten a few times from people, and even people just inquiring about how they should get started with adoption.

How are we paying for our adoption?

Some of you are offended and think that is no ones business. Maybe your right. Before our journey even started I wondered how people came up with the large amount of money needed to pay for adoption. I would research and discovered some answers. I never really got the answers I was needing to know how it worked or what ways it could be done. The only answers I really found were from blogs from the States and they would hold fundraisers. Yes, bake sales, car washes, etc.

For us that felt awkward. It was our choice to continue our journey to parenthood through adoption, so it was our responsibility to find a way. 

Before our journey was clear and we were in the fog of not knowing what was going on we were on and off again about buying a bigger house. We were also saving money for one day Lauren could open a business to be able to do her art full time. We had saved some money and at the end of 2011 we decided that we wanted a family more then a big house and Lauren could work and continue to build her art career at the same time.  We took our house off the market and continued to add money to our savings.

When we had our home study done we discovered that many families use many means to adopt. Credit card, home loans, fundraising and money from family are all options to many who want to adopt. We are very grateful that we live in a small house that we love and keep our expenses as low as we can. We live pretty well within our means and we can also save money for the adoption and baby. We chose to put our priorities in order and cut things out that were not as important. A big house, a business came secondary to having a family. 

That is how we are able to afford adoption. We are very open about our journey because we were at the beginning and looking for answers. I hope this helps all who asked that are researching adoption and are wondering if they can afford to adopt. 

Lauren and Jason