We have our referral

We received our referral on Tuesday. It was totally unexpected. On the last conference call the agency had told us the wait for referrals would take 12 months. Families who were requesting siblings with one child being an infant should expect to wait 12 months. After I threw myself a mental meltdown I settled into accepting it just wasn't going to happen until October. On May 21 I e-mailed my social worker asking her to check out our paperwork to see if we needed to redo any that was going to expire. Then we heard the government was thinking of changing the age requirement for parents. Well, that sent me into a tail spin again. Just read May 22 post. After I wrote that post I read "Our Daily Bread." The scripture was, "Do not worry." Matthew 6:25
I thought good word and there's nothing I can do anyway. Off I went to work. My social worker called. I had a manager in my office and an applicant filling out some paperwork before I was scheduled to give her an interview. My SW asked, "Can you talk?" I told her I couldn't. She asked, "Can you go somewhere to talk?" I thought she was calling about our paperwork. I said I'm just about to do an interview can I call you back? She then said, "You have your referral." When I tell you I didn't expect it I didn't. It was not sinking in. I think I said "what." She said it again. Then I kept saying you're kidding. Then I realized that would be cruel and she's not cruel. By this point I was crying and my SW was crying. The manager had a look of concern so I tried to smile and give her the thumbs up sign to indicate its good tears. After a few more sentences she realized what was going on and she started crying. Boy I really appreciated they were crying with me.

We have two boys. T and K (I can't post any identifing information until they are legally ours). They are brothers. T was born 11/25/04 & K was born 7/12/06. K is 27.9" and weighs 19.8 lbs. T is 36.6" and weighs 24.6 lbs. We have pictures and they are beautiful. I don't think we can post them yet.

T is long and thin. The first thing I noticed about T was how he was trying to help his brother. He has his arm around his neck and is guiding his chin up with his finger for the picture. In both pictures T is smiling. That fact is totally amazing me. Talk about resilience.

K is chunky. In one of his pictures its like he's begging me to kiss him. In both pictures he appears a bit stressed. I can't wait to see him smile. He has cute chubby cheeks.

We need to wait for one additional test results before we can officially accept the referral. After that it will take anywhere from 3 weeks to 3 months to travel. The average is 8 weeks. We'll receive the travel date about two weeks prior.

Please pray for our sons and their families (both here and in Ethiopia).