Finding Noah

You know how you hear of people finding love on the internet. Well, I'll go one better. I found my son on the internet. For the first year, 7/4/04 - 7/4/05, we did a ton of research. I looked into different countries, different agencies, etc.... and one day I was watching a show on TV about adoption on the Discovery Health channel. One particular couple was going to Haiti, now I have watch this show several times and saw several adoptions from a variety of countries, but there was something about this one that tugged at my heart. I began to do some research on Haiti, and the children available there. I was shocked at the number of orphans in this tiny country, because you don't hear of that many adoptions from there. However there are hundreds of thousands of orphans in a country about the size of Maryland. I was hooked, something told me my son was there. This was different than when I knew the Lord spoke to my heart as I described in my earlier post, this was more of a knowing, as a Mother sometimes does. I began to make some contacts with different people and found an agency I thought we would use. They had pictures on their website of "waiting children". I would look at those pictures and there was one little boy with sad little eyes that got my attention every time. Little by little I was drawn to him and finally one day I ask the agency contact about him. When she sent me his information, I sat at my computer and cried. Not necessarily because his story was so sad, but because I believed I had just found our son. I shared the information with Jeremy and his response was, "What do we need to do?" We decided a couple of months later to adopt independently, so I made contact with the orphanage I thought he was in, hoping I was right, and indeed he was there. I had found Noah!!