07/16/2026
Last night we had the most amazing Chinese food (northern cuisine) that we’ve had in a long time…like since we moved back from China 🤩😋 (Orlando friends, address below!)
We ordered a few of our favorite dishes that we used to get at our beloved “Jiaozi Place” in Wuhan, a place that we ate at weekly (sometimes daily 🫣) when we lived there. Both of our kids were excited to try the dishes, but our son made a comment that stopped me in my tracks after trying one dish.
“It tastes…familiar.”
Even though it’s been seven years since we adopted him, his body remembers a specific flavor from his province. And the smile on his little face (and the fact that he ate the whole plate!) said it all.
Listen to adoptees on the importance of embracing and celebrating their birth culture. As an adoptive mom, I can’t say much more than that, since it’s an experience I’d personally never lived. But I do know that if we (parents) don’t show interest and excitement for another culture, then our children probably won’t either.
Their birth culture is literally in their DNA, their bodies and their brains. It’s a part of them, their lives before us. So it’s of utmost importance that we adopt all of them, their past history and their present, precious selves, into our family 🤍
