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The holidays are right around the corner and some birth and adoptive families participating in open adoptions get together around the holidays. While the holidays are generally a stressful time of the year and get busy quickly, you should start planning your holiday visit now!
If you haven’t scheduled a date and time yet do so immediately! Schedules can fill up quickly with all the holiday gatherings and parties so you’ll want to choose a date as soon as possible.
You’ll need to choose where to have the visit. Would you be most comfortable in your own home? Or the others’ home? Or would you prefer a neutral place?
Some of when you will meet will depend on what you want to do during this visit. Will you be exchanging Christmas gifts? This might be more comfortable in a home environment if all are comfortable with that.
Or would you prefer to go somewhere and do something for this visit? There are a lot of fun activities during the holiday season. You could go to the mall and visit Santa. (Don’t forget the photo.) Does your town have a festival of trees? That would be a fun visit looking at all the different and unique decorated trees together. If your visit is in the evening you could go look at Christmas lights. Depending on where you live you could go ice skating or play in the snow.
Just because you meet in your home doesn’t mean the visit has to be boring though. You could bake cookies together, watch a holiday movie, or do some sort of craft and make a holiday ornament together.
Some of the above ideas will of course depend on the age of the child and the level of openness in the adoption. Ideas aside, the important part is the time you are spending with one another.
