I was at work on Saturday and I was sitting an enjoying my 3:30 to 4:00pm break. I was sitting with a couple other co-workers, and we started talking about kids, because one of my co-workers is due in April and the other girls had kids and they were talking about their pregnancies and such. This little girl and her dad walked past our table, and co-worker wanted to take the little girl home and adopt her.

One of my other co-workers said, "I ain't never gonna adopt kids, because they won't like like me." I was thrown off by that comment... I wanted to put her in her place and say, "Well my parents adopted me, and I don't look like them at all, but they love me to pieces. I'm their child, have been their child for 22 years now, and I don't care that I don't look like them. They're the only parents I've ever known, and they're the best." But I bit my tongue and didn't say anything because I didn't want her to get upset with me...

I want to adopt kids when I get married someday. Of course, I want to try and have kids on my own, but if I can't then adoption is my next option.

Every child deserves to have a home!!! I learned that especially after I got home from my Korea trip. There were many times when I would be sitting on the floors holding the infants and thinking to myself, "Gee this could've been me." But it wasn't. My birth mother made the ultimate sacrifice by giving me up for adoption. Sure she could've placed me in an orphanage and let the Korean government spend their money on me, but she choose to give me a life, a better life. She did give me a better life, and for that I am so grateful.

Below a picture of myself and my birth
mother, Mrs. Kim Mee Ran,
June 2003