Attachment is a process

Attachment is a process, not a moment. I am reminded of this because after days of a giggling smiling little girl, last night Shanti woke up in the middle of the night crying. She hasn’t done this before, and I was able to comfort her within 5 minutes. Today, I’ve noticed she’s not the same smiling little girl we’ve seen over the past few days. She is more clingy, more prone to tears at simply telling her not to touch mommy’s computer. We work to make sure she know’s we’re here for her and we will never leave her. By the afternoon, she is back to her playful, giggling personality.

Although brief, it reminds me that attachment is a process, and we will have our ups and downs as we learn to be a family together.