the wait is over...

so finally monday rolls around, we haven't heard by our case worker (ok, every minute seems like an eternity at this point), so i decide to make up an excuse to call her.  sure enough, the girls are healthy!!!!  "how long did she know," i am wondering,  "doesn't she realize we are already the irrational adoptive parents and shouldn't be kept waiting?!!" 

i must confess, i used to get so frustrated when adoptive parents would be so irritated when there was any kind of a delay in the process.  "you signed up for this, you knew it was going to take so long, what is your issue??" was always going through my head in response to them.  now i get it.  when you have been given such a gift as little people coming into your family, you will stop at nothing to get them here even one minute sooner.  we know what conditions they are living in, we know what we have waiting for them here, and we can't wait to have them physically and spiritually be a part of our family.  they are part of our family, but missing at the same time.  a very unexplainable feeling! 

but, saddle up wilkerson's, here we go!  "we have to move fast" case worker says.  we are now on a crazy paperwork adventure, and it must be done 'speed lightning style' (quoted from my boys)!  our adoption kind of went backwards (most things in our life do)!!  usually you have all of your paperwork completed, stuff done, ducks in a row, before you get a referral (kids assigned to you).  well, we weren't quite there yet, but thankfully after some not so gentle nudges, we were a lot closer than we would have been!  we spend a good month chasing down paperwork, getting doctors' letters, notary after notary after notary, oh, then state notaries (apparently the first ones aren't good enough for international stuff).  february was a whirlwind of a month, to say the least.  but we did it, we have all of our paperwork! 

we are moving into march at this point and we are waiting for our dossier (a fancy word for a packet of very expensive paperwork) to be translated into french, drc's national language.  the first weekend of march was hubby's birthday, his 35th to be exact, and we got the news that the dossier was getting prepared over that weekend.  it was sent off to the drc on monday, march 5!  what an awesome gift to my hubby.  i can see how prevalently God is working out every detail!  hubby is the one who always said we were going to have twin girls, hubby wouldn't have considered this if we were able to have more kids on our own, their birth date is half of my date (13x2 b/c of twins = 26th, my bday!!), we were getting pushed along the way to get our booty in gear on our paperwork or we couldn't have been ready to get them, and on his bday weekend their paperwork is sent down.  now some may say it's all a coincidence, i call it God's perfect will!  things have been perfectly orchestrated for waayyyy too long for this all to be a coincidence!  i rest knowing our God has our back.  it doesn't mean it's going to be peaches and roses, but He has our back!  he had already answered our prayers with these two little girls all those times i cried and prayed myself to sleep from another negative pregnancy test.  it may not look like what we thought it would, but thankfully He knows best.  how neat it is to see him working so clearly!  our God is an awesome God!