PANAMA Metropolis, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) – Christmas is a time wherever households occur with each other, and for numerous Bay County families, this vacation time was just one to remember.

Friday was a extremely special day for Kayson Clifton and his loved ones, as Xmas Eve marked his official adoption working day.

Christopher Clifton and his spouse officially adopted their grandson, Kayson.

For the Clifton family members, they say it is been a very long method, but ahead of the vacations, they are just glad that it’s finally finished.

“It usually means it’s last but not least about. It’s been a progress going for two many years. You know, for it to happen on Xmas, it seriously implies a good deal,” Christopher Clinton said.

For Clifton, even although Kayson was now spouse and children, he means so considerably far more to them.

“He is our grandchild but now our son much too. He’s our entire world he arrives initial right before any person else in our residence,” Clinton reported.

For Northwest Florida Wellbeing Network Main Functioning Officer Courtney Stanford, days like this are truly some thing distinctive.

“Adoption days are generally special, but to have a Christmas Eve adoption, wherever six very little kinds obtain their forever residences, is actually a blessing. It is magic. The holiday break time is normally magical, but nowadays is extra distinctive,” Stanford said.

This party also welcomed the return of an in-individual decide, anything that has not taken put given that 2019.

“In Bay County, our globe has been turned upside down, with Hurricane Michael and the pandemic. Decide Gay said let us do it let us do it in human being,” Stanford claimed.

And what produced the day even far more memorable was for both the staff and people to come with each other.

“To have everybody in one home to share these exclusive reminiscences with the people that are adopting and then the workforce that has used so a lot of several hours and time to aid the families get to this position, it’s actually good,” Stanford explained.

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