We get this question often and we wanted to continue to keep you all posted with our finances for the adoption...
We are a little over 1/3 there towards the final cost of the adoption!!! That's super exciting for us, and we continue to be amazed at the creative ways many of you have come up with to help bring our daughter home!!
I want you to know that each and every gift that has been given, whether small or large, has been written down and accounted for :-)... our daughter will be able to know the names of all those who helped bring her home!!
For those of you who have chosen to collect change in the "Chinese Food boxes," the boys love taking them to the coin collector at the bank!! We write down each of your names and record how much change was in your box... It is so much fun! Thank you so much for your generousity!!
We also get the question about when we need the money by... the great thing is, it is not due all at once. Pretty much every step of the process requires some sort of money attached to it... for instance, the whole fingerprinting process and immigration check with the homeland security cost $890. Once we get approved by them, we will have to get all our paperwork certified and authenticated. Each document costs $ to be checked, so that will be another expense. Once we send the paperwork to China, we will have our biggest one time expense thus far... a little over $6000 for agency fees, China's fees and interpretation fees...
So I guess the bottom line is, we are so blessed to have made it thus far!!! We have a long way to go, but God has continued to provide every step of the way!! We are so thankful!
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