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The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.

I always thought I would adopt. Even when I was young, I used to look up how to adopt.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents.

Before I met my husband, I was just about to look into adoption.

I felt the calling to adopt. You just know in the deepest part of your being that you are meant to find this little soul and guide them through life.

I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love.

When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was - and that my real parents were going to come get me.

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

The adoption process was not an easy one. The paperwork took nine months. It's a full-time thing!

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'