Adopting two children at the same time !

There is a question that Pierre and I get VERY often and it is " why did you decide to adopt two children at the same time". This is a really hard question for us as we NEVER DECIDED THIS... in our hearts we just knew that there were two children that were meant to be ours and that they were in Ethiopia ! We never had the discussion of one or two, when we found out that it was possible to adopt two children from Ethiopia at the same time, we knew we had two children that would make their way to us !

When the social worker discussed with us how much harder it would be on us to adopt two instead of just one at a time with the adjustement and all that, Pierre told her "We know it will be hard, however we will never know what it would have been like to have one child and we are doing this for them, in order for them to have each other" I thought that was so true, Pierre and I always seem to have the exact same thoughts when it comes to our children. And having the special bond of being sisters we think is great for our girls !

We think that it will be nice for Marika and Karelle as they grow older to share the same adoption story and have the same birth family to remember and talk about! We also think that initialy, it will be nice for them to have each other as this is the only thing that will be familiar to them. Sleeping in the same room and seeing the other there as well we hope will help sooth them some nights when everything might just not seem right in the beginning.

Since we didn't have any other children, we also thought that it would be fun for them to have a playmate right away since they are used to being with SOOO many children in the foster home !

Eventually, they will also have each other at school and being only one grade apart we think will be fun for them !

We are not being naive however we know that adopting two at the same time means more time, more laundry, more dr and dentist apt, more food, more diapers, more milk, more cries and less sleep however we know that we will also have double the kisses, double the laughs, double the 'I love you's" and double the hugs and we plan to enjoy every minute of the time we will have with the girls ! A friend of mine just wrote a wonderful post "Be in the moment" (take a moment to read this, it is worth it) and well this is exactly what we hope to do from the day the girls are placed in our arms in a few months !

We are very happy to have decided to adopt two and we know that this was what was best for our family !