Technically, this coming Sunday will be Kristin’s second as a mother. But this time last year, though she had a child, she hadn’t seen him yet. Binyam, her soon-to-be-adopted son, was still in Ethiopia.

“On March 2, 2009, a full year after we’d submitted our paperwork to the adoption agency, I got ‘the call.’ When I hung up the phone, I looked at my mother in wonderment and said, ‘I’m a mom.’ I will never, as long as I live, forget that feeling.” [Source: MSNBC]

It took several months to complete the process and get Binyam home with his new forever family. It took several more months for parents and child to adjust to each other. Kristin says that, while she tried to teach her son a lot in the few months they’ve been together, she’s learned a lot from him, too.

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