First Meetings

Narrate your first meeting with the adopted child or your first memory of being in the new adoptive family.

First meetings are often pivotal moments— filled with emotions, anticipation, and new beginnings. Reflect on this particular moment in your adoption journey. What were your feelings? Fears? Hopes? This writing prompt enables exploration of first impressions, uncertainty, hope, and the feeling of homecoming that surrounds the initial moments of an adoptive family.