How We Started Our Adoption

In January of 2006, we started the adoption process with an agency in our state. One week after starting the home study process, I read about a special needs little girl in Datong, China who was waiting for a family. She was trying to be placed by a different agency than ours. I knew that our agency did not work with others, yet I felt like I had to find out more about this little girl. Her name was Kang and she was born with microtia. I requested her picture, and as soon as I saw her face I knew that she was my daughter. I said a little prayer and within an hour I contacted the agency about starting the process to bring my daughter home. When my husband came home that night, I let him know what I had done. My husband was very surprised to say the least. He was not sure about taking on the medical issues of a special needs child. We had discussed adopting a special needs child before, but had never pursued the idea. He thought a decision like that should not be made so quickly. I reminded him that a decade ago, he asked me to marry him, after knowing each other for only 6 weeks.
He looked at her picture, then asked me "How can you be so sure?".
I simply replied "A mother knows her child."
He was quiet for a moment, and then he asked "How do we bring her home?"