National Adoption Day

Today is National Adoption Day. Actually, the entire month of November is Adoption Awareness month. Here is a little history on it:

National Adoption Day is a collective national effort to raise awareness of the 114,000 children in foster care waiting to find permanent, loving families. For the last eight years, National Adoption Day has made the dreams of thousands of children come true by working with courts, judges, attorneys, adoption professionals, child welfare agencies and advocates to finalize adoptions and find permanent, loving homes for children in foster care.

National Adoption Day is celebrated every year on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. For the first time in 2006, National Adoption Day was celebrated in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. In total, more than 250 events were held throughout the country to finalize the adoptions of more than 3,300 children in foster care, and to celebrate all families who adopt.

So there you have it - Happy Adoption Day! We are celebrating by going to an open house celebration this evening for a friend that finalized their son's adoption this morning. Congratulations Kiara and family!

Here is a great article about adoption that I saw on MSN today:

http://lifestyle.msn.com/familyandparenting/raisingkids/articlerb.aspx?cp-documentid=5686537&GT1=10619