Our Story

     As many of you know our story I will try to make it a short version. Siminar to other stories we knew our family was not complete. Yet we have  had some pretty dramatic steps in this journey.
      Nine years ago I knew as I was pregnant with my fifth we where not done having children  Which was hard to realized  since that pregnancy had just cost us $16000 for  IVF to conceive. but no worries as we still had 12 frozen embryos but after 2 more attempts, no more embryos or pregnancies
     We then went through 2 years of Derrick's Chemotherapy for Cancer. He was 7 at that time. When Derrick had his Wish granted by the Make a Wish Foundation he wished for a baby brother. (our course this was a Wish they could not help with).
     With all of us sharing the feeling our family was not complete, I started the daily injection both David and I went under the "knife" for an other IVF cycle . We where so devastated when the pregnancy test was negative! We wondered if we were crazy when we felt so prompted to have another child.
   .  When the prompting continued we look into adoption. would start down that path and a door would slam in our faces. As my biological clock tick on I decided to put that dream behind me and just be grateful for the 5 wonderful children and 2 older step children.
     Then a horrible and amazing thing happened. our home burned up on July 30 of 2011. When looking for a piano we meet this family who told us about their impending adoption. Within a month we were hosting two beautiful children from Ukraine  In the few week they were here the realized our family was headed for completion.
     We love them, the 13 year girl and the 12 year old boy, they were fun, loving, and we seemed to bond well. We were disappointed when they said "No" to being adopted. We told them if they changed there minds when they got home to  write us (I sent pre address envelopes  home with them). We knew we where going to Ukraine, that that is where the rest of our Family is. I hoped they would be the ones coming home with me. My husband  and other children had no doubts so we prayed every day for the right thing to happen. Then in February  one of the happiest day of our lives was a phone call with two children telling us they did want to be part of our family. Now you know why we call this our Mosteller  Miracle!