Happy National Adoption Month!

We are accepting Mrs. R's challenge over at The R House to blog daily this month in celebration of National Adoption Month.

Although it's awfully cheesey, we decided we would go ahead and use a heaping dose of alliteration to designate each day of the week as follows in order to organize our posts:

Our Story Sundays
Matching Mondays
Tweeting Tuesdays
WOWZERS! (As in, "we never cease to be amazed by birth families") Wednesdays
myTHbusting Thursdays
Finding Fridays
Spotlight/Success Story Saturdays

STAY TUNED for more details!

And FYI...here is a little about the history of National Adoption Month (from Adoption.com):

The first major effort to promote awareness of the need for adoptive families for children in the foster care system occurred in Massachusetts. In 1976, then-Governor Mike Dukakis proclaimed Adoption Week and the idea grew in popularity and spread throughout the nation. President Gerald Ford made the first National Adoption Week proclamation, and in 1990, the week was expanded to a month due to the number of states participating and the number of events.

During the month, states, communities, public and private organizations, businesses, families, and individuals celebrate adoption as a positive way to build families. Across the nation, activities and observances such as recognition dinners, public awareness and recruitment campaigns, and special events spotlight the needs of children who need permanent families. It also includes National Adoption Day, traditionally a Saturday, which is observed in courthouses across the nation as thousands of adoptions are finalized simultaneously.