Comments on: A day of blessings

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:21:02 +0000

(After going through three tissues…)
Thank you for sharing your story. We were blessed to have met our daughter’s first family when we adopted her, and I think often about how our meeting will go again when she’s old enough to make her first homeland journey.

By: Stephanie Wahlberg

Stephanie Wahlberg — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:19:55 +0000

Okay, I am feeling very teary eyed after that beautiful story.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:03:52 +0000

Oh Mary – I have been trying to catch up on your blog this evening and came across this amazing story. We have a meeting like this ahead of us- well, more than one! Thank you for sharing. The tears are streaming down my cheeks.

By: Lisa@Hopewell

Lisa@Hopewell — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:55:49 +0000

I just found you via 5 Minutes for Mom. I’m mom of two adopted from Ukraine. I will be back to read more.

By: laurad

laurad — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:07:04 +0000

incredibly moving. what a blessing.

By: Headless Mom

Headless Mom — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:47:06 +0000

I know that I’m really late to this party but this really touched me. I’m not adopted, nor do we have any adoption in our family so I have nothing personal to draw upon here. What a beautiful story. I know that you left out details on purpose but my goodness! I’d love to hear the whole story. Ben is a lucky boy, indeed, to have such loving and caring parents on 2 continents.

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:00:24 +0000

Mary- Clearly I am reading your blog backwards (sorry!). While we did not meet our daughter’s birth family, finding (and I mean literally FINDING…we had to set out in our daughter’s birth city armed with nothing more than an old photo, a name and a translation of what/who we were looking for which we had translated on bablefish) our daughter’s foster family was, well…I don’t think there are really any words for it. I blogged about it (naturally!). You can read about it/see the photos on my blog under the archives in November 2008. Again, thank you SO MUCH for sharing this.

By: edj

edj — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:41:10 +0000

Wow, what an incredible experience. How my heart breaks reading it. I don’t know if this is at all an appropriate question so please ignore it if I’m overstepping here, but I’m wondering what sort of reasons would cause a family to give up a child?
I’m so glad you got to share this experience. Thanks for telling us about it too.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:47:20 +0000

Ben and Mary,
Thanks for sharing,
Jenny

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:39:39 +0000

Congratulations to your sons and you…I think you absolutely did the right, beautiful thing for your children and their Korean family. I hope I can do the same for my son.