Que and I were married in May, 2001. After years of surgeries and doctors' appointments, we started to look into adoption. We went to the initial adoption orientation in the late summer of 2007 but it took us another year to really feel "ready". We began the adoption process in the fall of 2008 and were approved in December, 2008. In February we contacted a neighbor and asked her to make us some pass along cards. We mailed them to everyone we knew. In April 2009, (in what could only be described as divine intervention) both my mom and my friend ended up giving our adoption card to a hair stylist who mentioned her roommate was pregnant and was choosing adoption. They didn't know they went to the same hair salon, and they ended up doing this at different times on the same day. Our birth mom got our pass along card twice from two different people in one day! She kept the cards in her wallet (in fact, they are still in her wallet) and kept us in mind as she weighed all her options. She contacted and met us in June, 2009. On July 3rd she told us she had chosen us! She invited us to all of her doctor's appointments and I was there October 15, 2009 in the delivery room when our son Liam was born. Liam was placed with us on October 17, 2009, which was 1 year from the day we took our adoption classes at LDS Family Services. We love our son very much and are so grateful for those people in our life who were brave enough to share with others our hope to adopt. Without them, we wouldn't be a family!
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I've read their story before. Amazing!!!!!!!!
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