It’s A Girl-officially!!! Meet Smriti!





Smriti

Today was adoption day!  We are now the parents of Smriti!  Here she is…  Since she is ours, I can post her picture.  Isn’t she adorable!  After signing all of the paperwork, sitting there while they witnessed and certified it, they said, “congratulations!”  We are thrilled, overjoyed, relieved, and in love with this amazing little girl.  I thought it would take longer to feel like her mother, but it really did not.  She’s ours now and even though I know we still have much to learn about her and we have to go through a process of grief and bonding with her, I truly feel like she is my daughter-as she was meant to be.

We next went to apply for her travel documents.  This was somewhat stressful.  It just seemed like there were too many things that could have gone wrong here.  But, we were told to come back next Monday to pick them up.  Yeah!  Hopefully they will be ready and we can get on with the US visa process.  In the meantime she has a TB test scheduled for tomorrow and then the reading of that two days later.  Again, just hoping and praying this goes well.  While we are enjoying experiencing Nepal, touring is not our goal here and we really want to get home so we can get on with our family life.  I am missing the boys- this is too long for me to be away from them.  I can’t wait to see them with their new little sister!



Namaste