Day 5: It’s Official!

Yep, that’s right. Shanti is now officially a Hastings-Kimball!  Say hello to Shanti Willow Hastings-Kimball. We wanted to give them “American” middle names just in case they don’t like their given names. What could possibly be more American (and bohemian) …

Days 1-4: Are we nuts?

Day 1: Left Bangkok on Wednesday morning and arrived into Kathmandu mid-afternoon. Flying in on a clear day is simply amazing. Seeing the Himalayas bursting thru the clouds at 30,000 feet is unreal. After a couple hours to get unpack, …

Its the end of the world as we know it…

…And we feel fine. Well, we are one appendix lighter but very soon we will be two children heavier. For those of you that do not know, Alisha’s appendix was unexpectedly removed two weeks ago. I think the doctors were …

One Down, One to Go!

Hello everyone. We finally have some great news to report! Shanti’s case has been approved and has gotten the final signatures required for us to travel. We are now waiting for Sandeep’s case to be approved before we can travel …

Home Again…Not Completely

Well, here we are, back at home but can’t help but feeling like we left something behind. Our trip was amazing in many, many ways. Not only are the children wonderful but we have been touched in ways we didn’t …

A Moment to See the Sights

So now that our bags arrived and we are getting on Nepali Time – we realize that we have lots of free time in the morning before we go to the orphanage to see the kids. Last night we decided …

We made it…but our bags didn’t

Ok everyone. We are here and we have seen the children. We aren’t even worried about the fact that we have been wearing the same clothes since Saturday or that we are smelly. We really don’t care about our bags …

Hurry Up and Wait….

Well, after 4 days of traveling we’re not yet in Nepal. After arriving in London Sunday morning with plenty of time to make our connecting flight to Doah, Qatar we couldn’t get to a gate to deplane.  After an hour …

Nepal here we come!

OK folks, not much new to report regarding the kids. Shanti did turn two last Saturday the 3rd and its been killing us that we were not able to share that with her. We asked the agency if they would …

Surprise!

Just when we thought it couldn’t get any better, it has! When we originally submitted our paperwork we indicated that we were interested in siblings. Then, when we were given Shanti and she did not have siblings, we then asked …