[AdoptInMN]

I’ve been meaning to write out our adoption story, so here it is…

DH and I met and moved quickly. Within four months of starting to date we bought a house together and moved in. We then waited about 4 years to get married and (based on my request) never planned on having children. I loved our time with our nieces and nephews but never wanted any of my own until one day….oh, that fateful day that some of us have….when I suddenly decided I needed a baby calling me Mommy.

DH and I have always known that we can’t have children biologically (we both knew before getting into the relationship); since we never planned on having children it wasn’t a big deal. But once I decided I wanted a child we had to work through those changes, which I’m sure many have faced. We worked through those and DH decided he could get over his adoptive fears.

We started the international adoption process in late January of 2007. We had a rare case (very short wait) and got the call from Colombia on January 31st, 2008, though there were in-country slow-downs and we were expected to wait another year. I was helping put on a work holiday party and had a message from our social worker. I had frequent communication with her, so it wasn’t an odd call, but I knew her voice tone enough to know something was different. I called her back when I got the message, but she was already gone home for the day. She had emailed me some paperwork that made me hopeful for a referral, but DH and I felt so far off from that that we didn’t get our hopes up (though that night we watched a movie that neither of us can remember who was in or what it was about).

We got a call from our social worker at about 7:30 p.m., which I knew was a sign of some sort. She couldn’t stand to wait until the next day, so she went back into the office that night to call us with all the info. We reviewed the info, decided on a sound YES, and started making calls that night!

For us, we had two week to complete large amounts of paperwork to get to Colombia as soon as possible to pick up our almost 7 month old son. With my husband and mom with me for portions of the trip, I was there for two months. It was a wonderful experience where we got to meet and bond with our AMAZING child.

We have been home since mid-April and are bonding and into our groove as a family. I can not imagine our life without little SA and my husband is an amazing father. I thrive now on our new life dynamics and while I previously only saw my future as a business woman, now see my future as a mother. What an amazing journey this has been…