According to Molly, she received a phone call stating that her father’s wife had died in their closet and there were needles and her0in found next to her. She thought about all the signs leading up to this moment. When Molly’s family fell apart she knew she would be the one to have to put it back together. Her father was given 4 months to live after being diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer at age 50. A day after that she received some horrible news, but it wasn’t about her father. Her father’s wife had died of an overdose. The entire family was shocked.
Molly quickly went into problem-solving mode. She needed to console her father and help figure out who would care for his 2-year-old son, Easton. So, she jumped on a plane alone with her 7-month-old twins and flew from to her father’s home. Her father quickly signed custody of Easton over to his daughter. She was heartbroken over how hard that moment must have been for her father.
To have to sign over his son knowing he wouldn’t live much longer. His eyes had begun to yellow, a sign of liver failure. In just 12 days, Easton had become an orphan. He would also have to attend the most personal funeral in his life before he could even speak. A few days later, Easton came home with Molly and her family. Easton’s life was about to drastically change again. He now lived in a world with structure, four sisters, and meals at the table.
Easton had become officially adopted at the age of 3 after his sister had fought for him for 458 days. “He’s now a brother to four sisters whom he is biologically the uncle of! If we want to get really technical, he’s also the brother-in-law of my husband, his now dad! I can only imagine the tricks they will play on other’s one day with that information,” she said. Now that Molly thinks back on it, it seemed that Easton was always been destined to be her son. That’s something the boy seemed to know from the start.
