WHAT? YES! WHAT?

We did not have any response until a few days before Christmas of 2005. To us, three months seemed like a long wait, but the standard is more like a year of wait time. So, we were feeling pretty lucky. Kristin and I were eating lunch at home when we received a call from the agency.

“A young woman from eastern Iowa has chosen the two of you to be the adoptive parents! BUT, she just gave birth this morning and you have one hour to decide. OH, and there’s two of them…twin boys! They have an African-American father and a white mother. I will call you back in an hour for your decision.”

What? Years of prayer, research, and waiting comes down to one hour to decide our future? Long story (one hour) made short…we decided to say, “YES!” I jumped in the car and went to the library to get some name books for us to read on the way to eastern Iowa. By time I got home, the agency had called back and informed us that the birth mother decided to go with people who were having fertility problems. (At that time we were not aware of any fertility problems. Five years later, that might be a different story.) Surprisingly, we were not devastated. We were disappointed, but we entered this process trusting God and He had other plans in mind. It is weird, though, to think there are twin boys running around out there whom we parented for 45 minutes ;) If you’re curious, it would have been Elijah and Isaiah if I had my way.