November is National Adoption Awareness Month. It's a time to celebrate families, build awareness about adoption, and become involved in various adoption related activities. National Adoption Awareness Month is a time to bring added attention to the experiences of those children in foster care, in the hopes they will soon be connected with their forever families.
We are always very open with our son about his adoption story, but we take special time during this month to sit down and look at a life book we made for him (his birth parents have a copy too!) about our journey with his birth parents prior to his birth... our first meeting with them, pictures of him in utero, wishes they had for him. We are so grateful for our son's birth parents and their continued involvment in our lives.
Here are some links related to National Adoption Awareness Month:
"we take special time during this month to sit down and look at a life book we made for him (his birth parents have a copy too!) about our journey with his birth parents prior to his birth... our first meeting with them, pictures of him in utero, wishes they had for him"
ReplyDeleteAwesome. That is a fantastic idea, and I love that it's something that gets reinforced. Telling your son that he comes from good people who love him also shows him that you are good people who love him. I hope you don't mind if I reference this later.
Thanks for checking out our Blog! We've been followers of yours! We've enjoyed reading your perspective as a birth father... too often birth fathers' voices have been silenced. We feel so fortunate to have a close relationship with both our son's birth parents... he will always know how much they love him.
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