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In Their Own Words

Peyton, Andrea and Liberty's Adoption Story

"There you are!" Were the first words our Daughter heard when we saw her beautiful face. After seven years of tearful Christmas mornings, overcompensating for the missing little soul in our lives by giving each other way too many gifts, our truest Gift from God arrived at 6:46pm Christmas evening 2008. Who needs a new ipod!

This is our journey toward Liberty Grace. Her name is significant to the journey we have walked during the past dark years of infertility. Anyone who has every paced the cage of childlessness, rattling those bars in protest as once again another baby passes in front of your eyes…yet never your own; will understand why we named our daughter Liberty. She's been the long awaited for child of our heart, whose life has brought so much freedom to the many people praying for her these long years. Her middle name "Grace" is a constant reminder of the hard lessons learned in the silent hours of questioning God's goodness, Sovereignty and love. Now, holding her tiny little fingers, we know the answers to "why?" God's grace showered us with a blessing…even after some of the rotten things we shouted to Him in our struggle.

Our journey to Liberty was an especially hard and complicated one. We had always thought we would one day adopt, but going through infertility and then four rounds of IVF treatments, kept pushing our long awaited dreams of becoming a family just out of reach. Finally, in Dec 2007 we hit an emotional breaking point as a couple. Due to the fact we were missionaries living overseas, we were told no agency would work with us and we would have to leave our home of ten years and return to the U.S.A. if we ever wanted children. This was heart breaking on many levels for us, as the huge move would mean we would still not be able to start the adoption process for another year and the young church we had only recently planted would surely not be able to survive without a pastor.

From the second we got the phone call from Kathie, things could not have gone smoother. We were a unique/complicated situation, but the team at American Adoptions supported our every move. They worked with us and made compromises and never left us in the dark. Kathy became more than a specialist to us at this time as she treated us less like clients and more like friends. This was one of the biggest blessings in our journey toward Liberty. In such a stressful time, it is nice to know your not just another number on someone's desk.

Our biggest fear was that due to our distance, we would not be there for our daughter's birth. After much thought we decided to leave for America two weeks before the birth. This gave us the needed time to meet our Birthmother and deal with legal matters…as well as Jet Lag! To our delight, Christmas morning, just after we finished opening our gifts, we received a phone call telling us our baby girl was on her way. The whole way down to the hospital, all we kept singing were the words to Mariah Carey's Christmas song, "All I want for Christmas is You Baby!" And that's exactly what we got!

In the middle of the night, with a dirty diaper in one hand, soaking wet birp cloth and baby in the other, spit up in my hair and both of us in a new pair of P.J's, I still look into that face I saw for the very first time only three months ago, and know she was always meant to be ours. Back home overseas, away from family, she is our little rock and seems to be the Hub of a lot of love in our church. We mistakenly thought this was only our journey towards Liberty. But after travelling to two states, our U.S. sending church and now back to our church overseas, we know that Liberty Grace has been the answer to two continents of people praying, hoping, and asking God to hear. His reply was, "Here is your Liberty Grace!" Thank you Lord. And thank you American Adoptions.

Questions & Answers With Laurie

Laurie
Walker

Hello everyone, my name is Laurie Walker and I am an Adoptive Family Specialist with American Adoptions. I have worked with many birth mothers and adoptive families in my time here at American Adoptions and love being able to watch families form through adoption.

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