The Twins Have Arrived…

If 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.

[Editor: For historical puporses, I’m leaving these mentions of our past programs in place, but none of the links are live, and these programs are no longer offered. However, ALL of the content from those programs is available within our Learning Community.] 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