On Sunday my agency had a picnic for all of our local families. This year we have brought home a many toddlers and older children and it is important for them to get to see each other and socialize with someone who they knew in Ethiopia. It is also a lot of fun for the parents to get to know one another and create networks to help through the ups and downs of bringing a new child into their family.
I have been looking forward to this picnic all year. Sometime families stop into the office when they get back from Ethiopia, but only a few of them and usually only once or twice. As coordinators we feel like we get to know the children through the pictures and accounts we receive from traveling families, so it is hard never having a chance to meet them or seem them in person. The picnic gives us at least that opportunity. Below are pictures of some of the children that my clients have brought home
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