After years of sleeplessness, the baby retail business grew into a chain of five stores, and our family grew to seven, with me, my husband, and our five babies.
My first job was as an interpreter and tour guide for American adoption groups in China while I was a first-year English student at a university.
Ultimately, I left China to pursue a degree in Fine Arts and Economics in Canada, resulting in my having a PhD in Economics.
Nothing is more beautiful than the outpouring of love & joy on the parents’ faces when they first see their long-awaited babies.
After the birth of our first child, I found it harder and harder to leave my newborn with caregivers to go to work.
I quit my job at the bank and opened up a retail store selling quality baby products.
I needed a career that would allow me to free up time so I could be there for all the big moments in my baby’s life that I otherwise would’ve missed.
After graduate school, I started working as an economist for the central bank of Canada.
Babies have always been a major part of my life.
I would accompany groups of adoptive parents to orphanages to pick up their children.
Following this, I’d bring them to local authorities & consulates to complete their paperwork.
I wanted to see him eat every meal, and I took & developed pictures of him while he took his naps.
That feeling really sticks with you.