Freedom

Just a short 35 days ago, our sweet girl became a U.S. citizen. It's amazing to consider all that life has to offer her because she can call herself an American. While there are some very heartbreaking parts to her not living her life in China (including the loss of immersion in her birth culture and the distance from her birth family), she has also gained so many freedoms that she wouldn't have had in China.

Freedom to worship, freedom of speech, freedom to access information, freedom to have as many children as she desires... so many doors will be open to her now.

She is now a part of the American story, along with the rest of us who immigrated or whose great great grandparents immigrated years ago.

And we are so thankful and blessed to have her here, in America, and part of our little American family.

Happy first 4th of July baby girl!