I did not watch my blog like I said I wanted to. To those that have been here and I've missed, I'm sorry! Sometimes I forget that I'm an adoptive mom. Sometimes I forget that Tori hasn't been here all her life. She forgets too. I am so blessed with how well things have been going that I forget about the tears because paperwork didn't move as fast as I wanted to. I forget that I waited for what seemed like forever for her to get here or for even knowing who she was. I like that I forget.
For my fellow adoptive parents that are looking for ways to fill the time while you wait and you stumble across my blog, I promise you that you too will forget. You will forget the sleepless nights and the heartache from having to wait and wait.
An update on Tori: she is doing fantastic!! She doesn't remember Lithuania or not living with us or the orphanage. She doesn't get upset when it's brought up, but she just doesn't remember. She may someday down the road, but for now she just wants to remember always being here. Tori has finished Kindergarten and did well. She still receives help in speech trying to catch her up. She still puts words in the wrong sentence order and uses some tenses wrong. She's doing so well that it's hard to remember that she didn't speak any English just 2 years ago. We still have her attending Lithuania school with her brothers. She got to preform some traditional Lithuanian dances with her classmates at a local arts festival. We still deal with a little discipline issues, mostly being sneaky and doing things she knows she shouldn't. She can be impulsive, but she's improved a ton since she got here.
Please let me know if there is something you want to know about whether it be about our adoption experience (although you can read about most of that in past posts) or something else.
Blessings!!
