Stahlke Adoption

Kola's Birthday

Today is Kola's fourth birthday. It is important for our children that we mark such an important day, and we've planned a birthday celebration after school. We'll sing "Happy Birthday" to him and all blow out the candles on his cake.

Last year on March 29, Kola's birthday fell on a Wednesday. Because of after-school activities and Lenten services, the only time that all of us were together was before school. So we had birthday cake for breakfast! It was very emotional. The children were excited to be singing and eating cake, but when an innocent joke was taken wrong, one of them burst out crying. It was clear that underneath the birthday excitement was a great deal of grief and frustration.

Hopefully, next year at this time we can celebrate WITH Mikola.

posted by Stahlkes @ 12:40 PM