No one grows up thinking that they are one day going to be a single parent. If anything, children dream of falling in love with prince charming or the perfect woman. But oftentimes, life doesn’t work out how we want it to.

Unfortunately, that is exactly what happened to Colorado resident Katie Page in her thirties. Instead of continuing her relationship with her husband, she filed for divorce. The end of Page’s marriage didn’t spell the end of her happiness, however. In fact, Page’s divorce ushered in a new and exciting chapter into the 30-something’s life.

Page purchased a new Colorado home, started a new career and applied to be a foster mother in 2015. She had always had problems with fertility, and so fostering and adopting children was the perfect solution. So when Page received a call about a 4-day-old boy who’d been abandoned at a nearby hospital in 2016, she jumped at the opportunity to foster — and perhaps adopt — the newborn child. Foster care, which is also known as out-of-home care, is in place to ensure that children have a family and place to live no matter their circumstances. While the arrangements are often temporary, sometimes foster parents eventually adopt the children whom they raise.

Initially, Page took the 4-day-old baby in as her foster child, naming him Grayson. A little less than a year later, a judge terminated the parental rights of Grayson’s parents, and she was finally able to adopt the boy on May 25, 2017, when he was eleven months old. From everything Page has said about Grayson, it seems that she loved her new life as a mother, and so she also planned to adopt a second child when the time was right.

Despite the fact that care workers tried to find Grayson’s biological parents, as The Sun reported, no one ever emerged to claim the child.

“No one answered the ad posted in the newspaper or came back to the hospital in search of the boy,” Page told the paper in 2019.

“Part of me was relieved that no one came forward, so that he would be mine forever with no opposition,” Page added. “But there was always a pit in my stomach about one day having to tell my son no one showed up at his termination hearing.”

Out of the blue, Page received a call of another sort, however. In June, just a month after Grayson’s adoption, the hospital phoned Page to tell her about another baby who needed a home — a newborn girl named Hannah, as Good Morning America (GMA) reported in 2019. But Hannah was no ordinary girl, and this is no ordinary story of motherhood.

The entire situation was even murkier given that Grayson’s biological mother had lied about the child’s last name and birthdate when she left the boy at the hospital, according to GMA. Furthermore, The Sun reported that Page was actually able to find Hannah and Grayson’s biological mother, speaking to the woman directly for the first time.