PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) – Christmas is a time the place households come collectively, and for a number of Bay County households, this vacation season was one to recollect.
Friday was a really big day for Kayson Clifton and his household, as Christmas Eve marked his official adoption day.
Christopher Clifton and his spouse formally adopted their grandson, Kayson.
For the Clifton household, they are saying it’s been an extended course of, however forward of the vacations, they’re simply glad that it’s lastly performed.
“It means it’s lastly over. It’s been a progress going for 2 years. , for it to occur on Christmas, it actually means loads,” Christopher Clinton stated.
For Clifton, though Kayson was already household, he means a lot extra to them.
“He’s our grandchild however now our son too. He’s our world; he comes first earlier than anybody else in our home,” Clinton stated.
For Northwest Florida Well being Community Chief Working Officer Courtney Stanford, days like this are really one thing distinctive.
“Adoption days are all the time particular, however to have a Christmas Eve adoption, the place six little ones discover their eternally properties, is actually a blessing. It’s magic. The vacation season is all the time magical, however right now is additional particular,” Stanford stated.
This occasion additionally welcomed the return of an in-person choose, one thing that has not taken place since 2019.
“In Bay County, our world has been turned the wrong way up, with Hurricane Michael and the pandemic. Choose Homosexual stated let’s do it; let’s do it in individual,” Stanford stated.
And what made the day much more memorable was for each the workers and households to return collectively.
“To have all people in a single room to share these particular recollections with the households which can be adopting after which the workforce that has spent so many hours and time to assist the households get up to now, it’s really nice,” Stanford stated.
For extra data on how one can get entangled with the adoption course of, go to this website.
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