This blog is about our India adoption: both the process and at the end, the story of our trip to India to pick up our adopted daughter from SMSS (Subhadra Mahtab Seva Sadan) in Bhubaneswar, Odiya (formerly known as Orissa) India in December 2009. I've continued this blog as a pictorial story of our lovely daughter ; and this blog will be a gift to her as she grows older. Written by Thom and Mary Francis of Wayzata Minnesota.