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When one woman’s marriage ended, she was in her early 30s and felt lost.Katie Page relocated to Colorado and changed careers, but she still felt like something was missing – until she got an email from her pastor.
He asked Katie whether she was interested in fostering a kid. Katie had previously struggled with infertility and explored adoption, so she wanted to learn more about fostering.She began attending fostering sessions and believed this was the way for her. She then fostered four children before deciding to adopt.
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In 2016, she learned of a 4-day-old infant who had been dumped off at a nearby hospital and had no name.She named him Grayson and brought him in; baby Grayson lived with her for about a year, and Katie grew in love with him.Katie adopted Grayson at 11 months old after the court revoked the parents’ birth rights.
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Katie had just settled into full-fledged parenthood when her caseworker called again to tell her about a newborn girl who had been abandoned at the same hospital.Katie was terrified and overwhelmed by the possibility of taking in another baby, but her instincts told her to take this newborn girl in.
“I remember for the following 10 minutes and subsequent phone conversations I made that afternoon, the words ‘I know I am insane, but God is asking me to say ‘YES’ kept coming out of my mouth,” Katie explained.
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It was just a few hours before Hannah was transported to Katie’s house, but it was while glancing at Hannah’s hospital wristband that Katie made an unexpected discovery.
The new mom noticed the birth mother’s name on Hannah’s bracelet was the same as Grayson’s; she then examined Hannah’s adoption paperwork. The mom’s birth date also matched, but her two infants looked different.
“Grayson is half African American with a lovely darker complexion and dark curly hair,” Katie said on her blog. “Baby Girl has a light white complexion and red-blonde hair that is straight.”
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Katie searched for her children’s biological mother and arranged for a DNA test, which revealed Grayson and Hannah were half-siblings.
“What if Baby Girl had gone to another family?” Katie inquired about her blog. “We would never have discovered her or Grayson’s mother.” The link would never have been made! “I couldn’t believe it when I saw what had just happened.”
Hannah was legally adopted by Katie in December of 2018.
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“When I said ‘Yes’ to taking the Baby Girl, I had the weirdest feeling ever.” I don’t think I had fully sensed an undeniable calling from God until that time (or whatever higher spirit you might believe in).
“My intellect was urging me to say ‘no,’ since it made no sense and was not in my plans, but something within was telling me you have to say ‘YES.'” It’s a miracle, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, whatever you want to call it, but my children discovered each other.”
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Katie has continued on her single-mother path of fostering and adoption. With over 90,000 followers on her Instagram page, she is a great inspiration, describing herself as a “perfectionist making the best of my very imperfect existence.”
The mother has even found love and adopted another child, their younger brother Jackson. She is now fostering a teenager and documenting her experiences on social media and YouTube.
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What an incredible lady and mother and a terrific reminder to follow our emotions more; for Katie, it was the route to genuine happiness.
