The Story of the Double Rainbow

As we have said previously, we are pretty dense when it comes to signs from God, he is pretty blunt with us then smiles on us when we follow his intended path with double rainbows.

When we were married, we had a double rainbow visible from just outside our reception hall, when we put the offer in on the house, we had a double rainbow over the top of it. Needless to say, being placed with a child is a huge occasion—was this not meant to be because we did not see a double rainbow? We had to look where God’s will truly was. When we met Hope and decided it was a good fit, her sister’s (foster) dad gave us some toys to bring back that her birth mom and others had given her. We were on cloud nine with a little question in the back of our heads about the uncertainty that comes with any adoption or foster placement. Plus, where was our double rainbow? We continued and kept going with all of the craziness that goes with becoming parents crammed into less than a week and the pending retirement of Mom.

The next night we had our first sleep over and she did very well despite sliding out of bed once that evening, then she went back to her sister’s house during the day. We then went back and met with her PT to see how far she had come, then she came home with us for a bit longer and met the neighbors. Hope went back again to Ladybug’s house for even shorter, and then she had to say goodbye to Ladybug & Peanut. She gave Ladybug and her (foster) mom each a necklace and kept one for herself. Then they came to Hope’s new home!

There are so few times in life that you know looking forward that your life is really about to change forever and Friday was one of those days. Hope was joining our family. She came home and the living room became the playroom. As the Dizzler and Hope began going through the toys that she had brought with her and while in the back of our mind, we still wondered where our double rainbow was until they pulled out two Care Bears, one large, one small each with a rainbow on their stomachs. So it is, that we have our double rainbows, just not where we expected them to be. And if you look at Ladybug’s mom’s blog, she has photos of a rainbow we saw when we were licensed as fosters and started looking for our forever child. It just happens that she only was able to see one rainbow where we were able to see 2. Talk about God putting a nice bow on this story!

This photo was of the same rainbow as Ladybug's mom has on her blog. -- AMAZING!