by MarkIf you’ve been following this blog, then you may have read how my wife and I are following our hearts into insanity, times two. Well, they are born, and several weeks earlier even than expected. Twins normally are “due” about 36 weeks (as opposed to single kids, who are due at 40 weeks). Well, Samuel and David arrived week 31, surprising the heck out of all of us.
November 11 we received a phone call, then spent the rest of the afternoon and evening madly getting ready to go, got on an airplane November 12, and arrived here where we are in Columbus, Ohio, to hunker down for the long term.
The boys are beautiful, and strong, and growing quickly. They still have feeding tubes in, because they can’t quite handle the suck-swallow-breathe coordination thing yet, but they are getting there!
They’ll be in the NICU growing for probably at least another 3-5 weeks. Plus, there’s all the legal stuff to settle with the adoption, which hasn’t quite settled out yet. Although everything is going fine, we’re on pins and needles until it all does.
It’s just been two weeks since hardly anyone has heard anything from me, and I thought you all deserved an update! 
We’re on a bit of an emotional rollercoaster here- loving the boys, wanting the legal stuff settled, and living in a hotel room in Columbus, Ohio, far from family and friends. Luckily, our family is coming out for Thanksgiving.
I’ll be giving you more updates now that we’re settled in. And, I may even have the space to do some business blogging, because there’s nothing like finding your way around a new city, trying to find all the things we need, that gives one a fresh perspective on business and marketing.
Oh, and the Opening the Moneyflow course deserves a mention, too. The one thing I have been handling, with the support of Kate our amazing infrastructure queen here at Heart of Business, is the OMF2009. I’ve been having amazing conversations with applicants, and the spots are filling up. Out of only 12 total, four are taken, and four are potentially taken, leaving as few as four spots left until 2010.
If you’re interested in having a business that can survive an adoption, moving for two months to a strange city at a drop of the hat, is resilient even in the face of economic meltdown, and includes your heart and soul in a profound way, might I suggest reading about Opening the Moneyflow 2009, and filling out an application? We’ll talk, you’ll decide if it’s right for you.
But we won’t be talking during the boys’ feeding times, when we’re at the NICU, surrounded by the angelic nursing staff, and shnuggling those two little beautiful boys.
Any prayers and thoughts you care to send for both their health and growth, and for supporting the best and highest in resolving the legal end of things will be accepted!
with love,
Mark
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Dear Mark,
Congratulations to you and your wife on the arrival of your twins! God bless them.
All the best
Tito de Morais
Wow… just wow. For all of it.
Thanks for posting the picture, too; it’s great to see the boys, eyes wide open, starting life.
Much love from all of us to you.
Mark and Holly, hooray! It’s lovely to see your little boys at last.
Lots of love and many blessings to all of you,
Hiro
Mark and Holly
Many, many blessings to you both. Thank you so much for sending the photos. I can only imagine what this is all like for the two of you. Mind boggling really. I hope the legal parts get completed smoothly and quickly. Much love to all four of you! Kaya
Oh how beautiful they are! My eyes are flowing with gratitude for your joy.
That is wonderful news. I hope they continue to do well. You clearly have a lot to be thankful for this year.
mazel tov! that is so wonderful. i’m so happy for y’all. may it all go easily from here on in. many many blessings.
xxa
Thanks, folks, for all your love, support and celebration. Things are still up in the air legally, but we’re praying it all resolves sooner rather than later.
Look at those sweet, sweet boys!
Ach, those hearts!
Mazal tov. Love and many blessings all around. Get yourself some of that jewel energy too. We are all loving you in this.
Congrats! My third baby is just two months old and is a boy too. Children are God’s greatest gifts. I’m sure you are loving parenthood. Twins are a challenge but my friend who had twin boys this last June says it gets so much easier after the first few months.
@Havi @Trisha- I’m so glad to see you two here also!
Thanks everyone for your love, support and caring. I’ve been missing my network of friends, since I’ve been so absent from the internet world this past three weeks, and to see you all here really makes my heart smile.
But SOON- a new website is launching, and I actually started working on a blog post today. Crazy. Life goes on.
I got so excited, I almost failed the spam protection quizlet! (Sum of 2 + 6? OMFG!!!!)
Congratulations, and hooray, and wow, and awesome, and all the rest of it.
Look forward to further adventures–of the closer-to-home, regular-normal variety!
communicatrix´s last blog post..Egg, meet face (or, “What the hell happened to my November and where the hell we’re going in 2009″)
Hey Colleen- those boys are doing the same thing to our brains, too. Thank you, thank you! And amen to “closer to home!”
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