News!!!

I'm going to let these pictures speak for themselves (if I can figure out how to post them:):

INTRODUCING OUR SPECTACULAR SON GIRUM!!!

AND OUR DAZZLING DAUGHTER TARIKUA!!!

AND OUR MAGNIFICENT SON TAYE!!!

I hope you kept scrolling because the blessings roll on and on. On Tuesday, May 27th, I received a call from our agency caseworker. I had heard that referrals were on the verge of surging forward during the weeks surrounding Memorial Day, so I was prepared (although, once again, life proves that no one is prepared for important things. Unimportant things are easy to prepare for, but kids, marriage, death, impossible hope -- these things catch us when we aren't looking. They always interupt us. I swing along, now, from interruption to interruption, holding my breath, ready to be blindsided) for the possibility of some kind of news (READ: I was a jittery, distracted mess). I was on vacation with family in California, and Josh had just flown out on Monday night for a work trip in Germany. I was reading to my kids (the ones I had met). My brother walked in, and I knew from his greeting to our caseworker that this was OUR CALL! When I answered, I asked (SOOO casually) how she was doing, and she said, "I have a possible referral for you." I (shaking) said, "Okay." After we finally communicated that Josh was not going to be able to be a part of the phone call, she said, "This referral is a little different from what you requested" [2 siblings, up to 30 months old]. "Okay," I said...again...I was out of words....down to just two letters...O and K! "Would you be willing to consider" drum roll please "triplets?"

I said, "YES!"

There's more (a lifetime more, in fact), but I'll have to write later.

Thank you for your prayers.