I'm adopted and when I was growing up, my family celebrated my adoption day almost as seriously as they celebrated my birthday.

My mom always had a cake and presents for me and each adoption day was quite an ordeal. I was only 15 days old when I was adopted, so I have no recollection of my actual adoption, but I do have wonderful memories of the excitement that surrounded each adoptiond day.

If you have adopted children, consider celebrating their adoption day if you haven't already. It's a great way to celebrate the joy that they have brought into your life and a way to honor their birthmother and the gift that she has given your family, through adoption.  

It's a neat idea to make an adoption day celebration about family, while leaving the actual birthday for parties with friends.  

Some ideas for celebrating adoption day include:

~ Making your child's favorite dinner and then having cake or their favorite dessert afterwards. 

~ Going to your child's favorite restaurant for dinner and then out for ice cream

~ Presents - a must for any good celebration!

~ Telling your child about their adoption day and how you felt when you first saw them and held them.  Each adoption day both my parents would tell me the story of how excited they were when the adoption agency called to tell them they had a little girl for them.  My mom would drag out the pictures of the first time they saw and held me and she'd cry every year. Those are wondeful memories and always made me feel proud to be adopted and to have been wanted to much by the wonderful parents who raised me.