It's official - I'm a mother!

Last Monday I received the first bill from the radiographer for one of the babies' x-rays.

It's the first time ever I got excited about a bill because it said "Baby _________"

Then we registered the babies on our medical aid and received an emailed letter with confirmation of all the details, and it had their names on with the dates of birth - too cute!

Miss Kendra ________
and Mr Connor ________

Some other non-official instances...

on Friday the gate people came to the house because the gate motor’s not working (so many expenses – I don’t want to think about it) and I said to the guy to please come back and fix it quickly (in Jhb we are BIG on security!) because “our babies are in ICU and we visit them at night, and it’s not safe having the gate on manual”.

It just felt so right saying “our babies”.

There's another baby in the ICU who's been there a day longer than our two so we're friendly with her mum.

The other day we left together and I walked her over to maternity on my way out.

She then says to her mother (who was on a couch waiting for her - only the parents are allowed to go into ICU), "this is the twins' mother".

I smiled because I realised, "that's right! I'm a MOTHER. A mother of TWINS"

Just think - a year ago, I felt hopeless and I wasn't even sure that this would ever be me.

I'm so, so privileged to finally be a mother and I praise God every day for my tiny little miracles.