Two years ago today, Ethiopia called. Newborn twins. Impossibly tiny, no medical information, no photos. All that would come later, if we were actually given the referral. Today, it was just a question. Would we? Could we? We would, we could, we did!
Today we took them back to Target, because that is where I was when I got the call and found out that we were on our way from being a family of 2 to being a family of 4. So, if you were shopping in Target two years ago today, and came across a crazy woman crying into her Blackberry near the 24 cent crayon display, that was me. And two years later, we strolled through Target, buying diapers, while M. graciously waved and said “HI!” to everyone we passed, because she is the Mayor of Target.
The 24 cent crayons are now 25 cents a box. And nobody cried into their Blackberry, although I kind of wanted to, after finding out the government wants a thousand dollars from us to print up the forms that prove that they are US citizens.