Did I Say Boy OR Girl?

So about that phone call….it was a Thursday afternoon, I actually had the day off work because I was going to be working over the weekend.  I had this feeling of excitement all morning, though I wasn’t sure why. I was outside working in the yard and when I came back in I saw I had missed a call from our adoption agency.  Immediately, I knew in my heart that this was “the call”. I called Holt (our agency) back and left a message saying I would keep my phone with me and to call whenever.  I called Marc to see if he could come home from work early, which he did.  Then around 5:00 p.m. we received the phone call that would change the rest of our lives.

The director of the Thailand program said she wanted to ask us about a little three-year-old boy AND a little two-year-old girl, a brother and sister.  She went on to explain some about their situation and Marc and I just looked at each other, smiling, with our mouths wide open, trying to take it all in.  Did we want to review their files and consider adopting them she asked.  “Yes, definitely yes”, was our immediate answer. 

We knew even before we saw their pictures or had read their files that these were our children.  I can’t really explain it, but we just knew.  We checked our email half a dozen times over the next hour or so waiting for the email with their pictures and information. 

Then, around 6:30 p.m. we saw their beautiful faces for the first time.  Precious, precious children.  Soon to be our children.  Wow.  We were open to a sibling group, but were told they rarely get sibling group referrals from Thailand and not to expect a sibling group, so we weren’t! 

The verse that has been running through my head as I process all of this is Ephesians 3:20. "Now to Him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we could ask or think….to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever." 

We are going to be parents to TWO precious children!  We stand in awe, complete awe, of God for giving us this opportunity.