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A wonderful story about a family in Saskatoon and their two little twin Ethiopian daughters…

“It doesn’t take long for the curious, big-eyed, three-year old Tag to clamber up beside me on the couch as I’m talking to her dad and gently reach out to feel the texture of my salt and pepper beard.

While Clayton Sparks and his spouse, Cheryl, describe their life-altering trip to Ethiopia in July to bring home twin sisters placed for adoption in December by parents unable any longer to provide for the girls’ survival, the more outgoing of the twins is busy exploring my camera and pen and whispering in my ear — what, exactly, I can’t tell.

Tag’s sister, Messa, meanwhile, is curled up on Cheryl’s lap and looking on shyly, while the couple’s six-year-old daughter, Jordyn, chimes in to explain how and what she and her new siblings have been doing since they all got home in mid-August.

Looking at the happy, beautiful twins who are now settling into their comfortable new home in Silverspring, it’s tough to imagine they once shared a tiny mud hut with their parents and four other siblings in a village in Ethiopia’s parched and destitute Kembata region, or that they potentially were just weeks away from dying of malnutrition — as the whiteness of their hair at surrender attested.”

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