1. Make a video

Making a video can help show your loved ones how special this adoption is to you and your family. It’s also a great opportunity to answer questions you know will be asked and to explain your journey so far. It’s a wonderful time to involve your friends and family in the small parts of your experience and show them what the timeline looks like until your child comes home.

2. Use your other kids in a photo

Having a picture of your children with shirts or a sign that says “Big Brother” or “Big Sister” can pull on your heartstrings. What a great way to announce your adoption and involve the children already in your home in the excitement of their future sibling.

3. Map it out

If you are adopting internationally, taking a photo with a heart over the country you have chosen can be a great way to announce your adoption.  

4. Eat cake and be merry

You can’t go wrong with cake! While surrounded by your friends and family, celebrating with cupcakes can be a great way to announce you’re adopting. Whether you decorate them pink or blue to show the gender of your future child, you use the icing colors of your future child’s country’s flag, or you draw a puzzle piece on the top and say “we’ve found our missing piece,” everyone will be so excited to celebrate with you.

5. God Found Us You

There are quite a few super sweet adoption books out there that you can use to announce your adoption. Whether you give the book to your children to announce the addition of a new sibling or you take a picture of your family reading this book to announce to those on your social media accounts, you can’t go wrong. Some books that have gotten lots of love from those in the adoption world are God Found Us You by Lisa Bergren and I Prayed For You by Jean Fischer.

6. Pet lovers, unite! 

If you have a dog, cat, bird, or other animal that your family loves and adores, using it to help announce your adoption can be a cute and fun way to involve the whole family!  Putting a sign around the pet’s neck saying “Big Brother,” “Big Sister,” or “Protective Detail Starting Soon” can be a great way to announce your adoption. It is sure to get lots of love from friends and family.

7. Empty chair, full hearts

A great way to announce that your family is adopting is to take a picture with all of your family members sitting in chairs with one empty chair.I have seen some people put a globe in the chair if they are adopting internationally or a chalkboard with the announcement details.  

8. Late to the game, but the best one of all

If you didn’t share your adoption until after you were matched or already home, the absolute best way to announce your adoption is with a picture of your child. Everyone will jump for joy as they look at the face of your new child.

There are so many ways to announce your adoption, and price should not be a reason you decide against it. Don’t let cost stand in the way of announcing the growth of your family with joy and pride. Choose a way to show your loved ones what has happened in your life and let them celebrate with you.

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1. Pride in your family

Announcing your adoption is the perfect way to show excitement and pride in your new family. With a new addition, whether that be biological or adoptive, celebrating with your loved ones helps make the experience even more joyful. With this announcement, you get to show your friends and family how much you are fighting for your family, how far you are willing to go to find them (literally!), and how loved this child is already even though you haven’t met him or her yet. Adoption announcements can give parents that extra boost of motivation to continue pushing through those stacks of paperwork.

2. Thank your supporters/Raise support

Whether you announce your adoption before you are matched or after, this is a perfect way to gain support. Adoption takes a village, and this is the perfect time to show others that you need prayer, encouragement, fundraising help, and lots of patience. With your announcement can come an announcement of your first fundraising pitch, or a thankful exposé to those who have already financially supported your journey. Announcing your adoption is the perfect time to show your thankfulness to those who have and will lift you and your family up when you need it the most.

3. Adoption awareness 

Your adoption announcement is also a great time to spread adoption awareness. Many people in your inner circle may not know about the orphan crisis here in our country and around the world. With adoption, announcing helps open up the door for family and friends to ask the burning questions of their hearts. It helps to alleviate the nervousness that can sometimes surround new adoptive parents when they tell their family about their life-changing decision, and it can give your loved ones a way to get involved in helping orphans. We are all called to love and help the fatherless, but we are not all called to adopt. So, when you announce your adoption, it can give others the avenue their heart has been searching for to involve themselves in the orphan crisis of the world.

So, go and announce your adoption. Announce it with pride and watch how your loving, supportive village will circle you and lift you up when you need it. And you never know, your adoption announcement may spur another family to pursue an adoption journey of their own.

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