This road of international adoption has taken us 4 years to complete. What a journey!
We have learned a lot that is for sure. In some ways it has been the most trying time of our lives, but isn't it in those times when God teaches us the most? That has certainly been our case.
It feel so good to finally be at the end of this journey! We will be returning to Calgary with the boys on December 18th Lord willing. We will have our boys home for Christmas! What better present could there be than that? It is what we have been praying for since the summer. So many others have also been praying for us as well. Just last week a good friend called an impromptu prayer meeting right after the Sunday service. Many gathered around and asked God to bring our boys home for Christmas. It was more than possible, but far from probable. Then all of 3 days later we received news that not only were the boys' documents submitted to the Canadian Embassy the day before, but their Canadian visas had already been approved! What normally takes a week to 2 weeks, took all of one day! Praise God!
Let me say that this process of adoption has usually not been so easy and we have waited and waited and waited, but now it is finally at its end and we are ready to go get them! Now the real work begins! Ha! Raising twin boys!
We will need to teach them what family means and who mom and dad are and that might take some time. Hopefully friends and family will understand that we will need time together, just our family, in order to prove to our boys, that we aren't just another volunteer who has taken and interest in them and then left them again. That is all they have known their whole lives so far. We are so thankful for the volunteers who have spent time with them, but now they need to learn what family is like, what it is like to have a Mommy and a Daddy who won't leave them. We need to earn their trust. Hopefully that goes well and they adjust to us and we adjust to them quickly. Other than praying for safe traveling, the adjusting is now our biggest prayer.
We will post another update when we are with the boys!
