Family reunions for adopted kids

My sister is currently in Ethiopia picking up my latest family member, Zoie.  She is a beautiful baby and I can not wait to meet her! I stumbled across this helpful article in families.com that might be of some help to those of you who have also adopted children in to your homes:

Many adoptees report feeling part of their immediate families, but never quite feeling like “part of the gang” at extended family gatherings. Especially when these reunions are of people who live far from each other and don’t know each other that well, much of the talk may center on who looks like who, on memories of someone your child never met, on family history and ethnic traditions which your child may be conscious of not being a part of. Even if your child is used to looking different from you and your spouse, being the only brown child in a sea of twenty blond cousins drives the difference home…read more here.

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