Looking To Adopt a Baby

I had no idea that I had those choices, I said [to my counselor], “What, you guys just don’t pick?” And she said, “Well, we can, if that’s what you want, but you can pick and then we’ll give you what’s called their profile."

Every prospective adoptive parent makes a profile. Which I thought was really interesting. And for me, I got excited, because I actually had a say in who gets to parent him. So we went through all these questions and the one that really stuck out to me, was that I got to pick their family structure. 

I decided that I wanted a family that he would be their first, not their only necessarily, but their first. And to be totally honest, I initially picked Frank and Elise off of their cover picture. And when I sat down to do this, I said a prayer to God, I said, “Please, let his parents be in here and please let me know when I come across them.”

And the profiles that I read were just heartwarming and loving. When I got to Frank and Elise’s, there’s a picture of the two of them sitting there and there’s a little space in between the two of them, and I thought, “That’s where he belongs. He belongs right there.” 

And then I read their profile, and I sobbed because this was… it’s them. This is who they are... these are his parents. So I called, it was Good Friday, I called my birth mother counselor and said, “This is who I would like to meet.” And two days later I met Frank and Elise for the first time. 

When I met them, I was excited. I’m like, “Yeah, I get to give her her son. I want that experience with them.”