Happy Birthday Sweet Angels

On January 31st of 2008 we got the call that our daughters had been born, January 13th. When our case manager called we had only been on the waiting list for 3 months.

Jan. 31st was a Thursday. The Sunday before I was ready to call CWA and tell them we'd changed our minds about requesting twins. I was seriously doubting - and I was seriously impatient! CWA had warned us, hadn't they, that it was highly unlikely we would receive a referral for infant twin girls? That Sunday i told Isaac we needed to pray bc/ i was ready to give up! He (always patient with me) said, "Sure, let's pray about it and get confirmation again". (he already knew what the Lord had called us to and had no doubts). So we prayed. And that night, i had a dream.

In my dream I was pregnant with twins. It was almost time for me to deliver. In my dream i had a friend who was also about to have her baby. She asked her doctors to break her water so that she could hurry up her birth as she was ready to have her baby! The doctors turned to me and asked if i wanted them to break my waters too. I thought about it. I knew it would hurry up the birth but i also knew it would make my labor more difficult. So i told them, "no, I'll wait until they come on their own."

I woke up that morning and told Isaac my dream. I asked "what do u think it means?" hahaha. we both knew what it meant. we were to wait for our twins. We didn't have to wait long. we got the call 4 days later.

Our case manager started chit chatting with me about various things when i first answered. I had had a long day and wasn't feeling great. After several minutes she said, "molly, i want to tell you about a little girl that was born about 2 and a half weeks ago." i was thinking, why is she telling me about ONE baby??? if she tells me about one baby, I'm going to take that baby!! but we had thought we were getting our twin daughters..... Then she started to cry and she said, "and Molly, she has a twin sister!!!" I can't tell you how many times, through laughing and crying i yelled, "you're kidding me!!!" and she, equally laughing and crying yelled back ,"no, I'm not kidding you!!"

She explained that everyone in their office was shaking their heads. Our family had recently come up as next on the waiting list and they all knew we'd be waiting a long time for twin baby girls to be born. but within days....twin girls were born and brought into their orphanage in Soddo, Ethiopia. When the CWA Ethiopia office opened up the file for the girls, they could hardly believe it.

As she told the story of our daughters' first few days of life, their medical condition, their birth family.....it all seemed a dream; great tragedy, great love, great sacrifice, great calling and all of it working together in a way none of us can still understand.

Happy birthday to my beautiful, sweet angels. Isaac and I were both emotional basket cases all day January 13th. How overwhelmed we are by it all. Thank you, God. And always, part of our hearts are in Ethiopia still. How blessed we are as a family to walk this journey together.