Today, we got our National Adoption Day packet for our adoption, so we are very excited. This year we will be spending National Adoption Day with other families (like a couple of hundred) with the great honor of adopting a child and parenting through adoption.

This is a big day in foster care. A number of foster children are adopted on this day as a true celebration instead of the traditional legal courthouse. In most cases, for foster children that are adopted on this day, the legal services are provided pro bono, which is a great blessing for foster parents. You will still be responsibility to pay filing fees and the cost of the birth certificate. It is also a great bonus of the day to have a celebration atmosphere instead of the stuffy courtroom.

There is a little more paperwork and hoops to jump through to participate, than with my other adoption, but it is worth it. You do have to stay on top of things and make sure your name is placed on the list early along with all the paperwork ready to go.

While this day is very important to foster care which is a big part of our lives, but as celebrating it with our children we have not done that in the past. I do not know why we have not celebrated it in the past. We have participated in newspaper articles at this time of year to help encourage adoption of children living in the foster care system. In my mind, my children being adopted are not who they are but a chapter in their life.

This year I will be getting the book “Forever Fingerprints” to share with my children while adding to their library. You can go this website to order the book and get an autographed copy by the author. This looks like a wonderful book for adopted children which I cannot wait to get. Maybe this will be a book that we can read every year with our children on National Adoption Day.

More reading:

Sherrie Eldridge - Insights, And An Idea For Celebrating National Adoption Day Deb Donatti

Planning For November - National Adoption Awareness Month Deb Donatti