Miracle

And then the phone call came. Ten days early. They picked US. Andru and Ethan, our "Huckleberry Finn" boys (see picture for explanation...) are OURS. 


Backing up, it was noon on Wednesday. I was in the middle of a class and opened my email to a message from my caseworker that read, "CALL ME, NOW!!!!!!" My hands started shaking as I dialed Kara's number, and she didn't wait to find out it was me to say, "They're yours!" I started sobbing before she got any further. When I got off the phone, after asking for reassurance about ten times, I called Brian. He was at a training course with a dozen other police officers, and I heard his voice catch as I struggled to tell him. Thoroughly embarrassed and too excited for either one of us to care, we both realized that in a single moment, our lives had changed. We were now the parents of three.


It is infinitely difficult to explain what I felt, or what I feel now. Two little people are in a home in South Carolina, but they are now my family. I love them with every part of me, and I have never met them, or heard their voice. 


The last twenty-four hours have been a blissful blur. Last week, the boys' caseworker asked us to begin putting together a scrapbook of our family, our house, our life. If selected, the caseworker would present the boys with the scrapbook to introduce us to them. Suddenly, I had one night to complete what I thought I had ten days to do. We all ran home, dumped the old furniture currently taking up the boys' room into the hallway, and began setting up their room so I could take a picture to include in the scrapbook for them. The scrapbook was overnighted today. Their room still needs pictures on the wall and a dresser in the corner, but it looks...ready.


Now...we wait...again. Hopefully, we will get to see them in the coming weeks. The unfortunate truth is that the boys won't be here permanently until near Christmas. For now, I want to see them, talk to them, hug them. I want to tell them I love them, and that I can't wait for them to be here, with us, where they belong.