I love that the adoption world introduced us to a concept called "Family Day" (aka Gotcha Day). This is the day that you celebrate meeting your kids or your kids coming home. It so worked out in our family that these dates for our two adopted kiddos actually happen during the same week of the year. In fact LB came home one day before we celebrate the day that we met Malachi.
Every year we look forward to taking some time to just celebrate that we are a family! On Malachi's actual day we met him, we like to celebrate with a little bit of Ethiopian food. Some of our kids are picky but this year they all jumped right in and devoured!
Another fun tradition is that we set a day aside to just go have some fun! The last couple years the kids have picked the beach. We were a little bit worried about the weather because we've had a lot of rain this year but the weather at the beach was perfect and the kids were quickly running around in swimsuits! We have the perfect little secluded beach area that is never busy and the kids just have a blast running around and playing. The beach is a favorite of our kids and we always have to drag them away at the end of the day. This year has been so busy so a day at the beach was just the perfect way to get some time together just enjoying life together. We as the parents could just sit back and relax and watch and laugh at this crazy family we've made together! But boy are we blessed.
And just because her salt water curls are amazing!
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