The First Thing We Saw on Gotcha Day

We made it to Nanchang and arrived at the hotel @ 2:00 p.m. It’s 2:52 p.m. Sunday for us, and at 3:30, we travel to the adoption center to get Ellie!


Here’s the first thing we saw when we opened the door to the hotel room:







As you can imagine it was a tear fest!


It is International Children’s Day, a day that has much significance in Chinese culture. On this day, children are celebrated and children are said to treasure this day more than any other because it is a day for them to receive a gift that they’ve truly wanted and have been waiting a long time for. How fitting that Ellie’s ‘gotcha day’ falls on this day…a day when all three of us receive the gift we’ve truly wanted and have been waiting a long time for…the gift of each other, the love of a mother and father, and the love of a child.”

I’ll be sending more pictures immediately after we get back from the adoption center.