I've had a lot of tear inducing moments in the past few months. All of them have been connected to personal gestures people have shown towards me. Gauritai (H's cousin) making us his and her's barfi for our engagement party; my mom getting me two entire sets of outfits with matching jewelry so I had more than one choice and Nina aunty stepping up and helping out in ways only a mom could.

All this extended family that I never had before has stepped up and helped me in more ways than I could ever express to them. Renu aunty helping out with the flowers and Geeta aunty providing me with moral support and Rano aunty doing anything to help make this wedding planning easier. It's been tremendous and where my mom would have been there for me this wonderful extended family has managed to make me feel less alone.

Yesterday H & I got a little plastic bottle in the mail. There was a message in the bottle along with confitte and rice and it was from Munna didi, Anand jija, Kabir & Rana. Munna didi is someone Himanshu grew up with and now lives out in California. It was a little caligraphy scroll with a note for us and it was absolutely wonderful and I had one of my recent tear inducing moments. I appreciate it so much. These little things mean more to me than anything else.