Nina and Wes have been on quite the journey. You can visit their blog and read more about it, but I will give you a few snippets of it. For five years they have been trying to have kids. The "trying" part includes the traditional kind and the adoption kind. They tried through the state of Kentucky and that didn't work; they tried to adopt from Nepal and that has been put on hold; and they tried to adopt from Ethiopia (ring a bell?).
Well, after 3 months and 2 weeks and 6 days they got a call. (the timeline is a little off because they have been on a list for Nepal and then they had to move to the Ethiopia waiting list) The crazy part was that they were only planning on one child. Nina had a dream they were getting twins and she told her agency, but they said they had never had twins through their agency. Well, they now told her she is the talk of the office because they found out they are getting twins! One boy and one girl. They are currently 2 1/2 months old and MAN are they beautiful! You can't see pics yet until it is all finalized, but I have released more than my fair share of liquid salt since the call came on Thursday.
You seriously just need to watch their video on their blog. Make sure you have some Kleenex or you may drench your couch like I did (true story).
They were about to go on a major fund raising blitz this week because the "extra" baby was going to require about $5500 more. Up until that point they were excited because they had all their foreign and agency fees ready to go and even a little for airfare for their first travel date. Well all that changed with baby number two, and they needed $3300 by the end of this week. Just as They were about to send out letters to everyone thy knew to raise the funds, an amazing person who wants to remain anonymous to the rest of us, told Wes and Nina they were sending a check for $3300 to cover the rest of their missing funds!
OK, I decided to post the video here. You can read more about their story on that last link.
Wanna hear about more miracles? Wait till tomorrow's post! (my eyes can't handle all of these tears)
2 comments:
Oh my word, I should have listened! I definitely needed the kleenex! Congratulations (times two), and I'm praying for everything to go quickly and smoothly.
This is so exciting! I can't believe this is your sister! I have seen this video a few times through the Facebook feed from people that are adopting from our agency, and they live on the East coast. Small world for sure!
Congrats to your fam!
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