The journey home

This post is our long overdue "trip home" post. At this point, I owe everyone that I know an email. I'm so sorry! At some point, I will catch up.

In the meantime, here's a photo-heavy blog post.


This photo is from the hotel. We had a lot of sadness initially. After that sadness, Anna started to play and show her curious side.


Anna misses her foster family a lot at night time. After a night of "sleep," we took a walk. Anna and I are shown here in the lobby of the hotel. She LOVES Christmas trees.


When we got to the airport, we thankfully were able to check in at Asiana's "Mommy's" counter. Bless them. They had a short, separate line for those of us traveling with small kiddos. They even put "priority" tags on our luggage so it came out first. Whew!

Anna was amazing on the plane. After running around at the airport for a few hours, she took a nap as we were boarding. She slept through take off, woke long enough to play and eat, she then slept pretty much the rest of the flight. The kindly Korean man one seat over gave her a little round of applause when we landed.

At customs, we got halfway through the line and they bumped us to a special, shorter line. So helpful!!

Uncle Dan picked us up and drove us home. At home, we opened some presents from family.


Anna adored her Daddy instantly! That was so helpful as Anna had slept on the plane but Mom and I were completely exhausted.


It turns out that Anna LIKES presents!




We are clearly still settling in and looking for our "new normal." I have yet to be able to get a photo of Anna and David in the same place at the same time. That will happen.

For now, Anna is really transitioning well. She misses her foster family very much. Even with that burden, she is a joy and a truly happy, happy child.

We are so blessed!

Merry Christmas from our new family of four and visiting Grandma!!