Adoption Albums You Can Scrapbook In Just Hours

When you are waiting to adopt a child, especially your first, it can seem to take forever, regardless of how long or short the wait actually is. One way to pass the time is to start your adoption scrapbook album now. As you begin to record some of your thoughts at the time you'll see why it's so important to still take the time after your child arrives.

Don't get overwhelmed with the idea of an adoption album. One of the best places to begin is with a long list of topics about your adoption experience. These kinds of lists can be found on a variety of web sites, including my own, which has over 150 topics.

Decide what style of book you want. You can buy a hard-cover book at your favorite bookstore that resembles a typical baby book. Or you may want to consider purchasing a pre-made adoption album, or even hiring a freelance scrapbooker to do a pre-designed book for you. One of the best options in my opinion is the Adoption Scrapbook Album which is twenty pages of overlays, where you get to choose five that specifically fits your child's experience. These transparency overlays make your book look like it was designed by a professional, but with the price tag of doing it yourself.

Go buy your stickers and other embellishments. Though few mention adoption, you can find a lot of stickers that mention family, baby milestones, love, and life events. These can be helpful to fill in spaces and add some style.

Have some fun with your digital camera and take a bunch of photos of the day-to-day stuff. Spilled Cheerios all over the living room floor and the huge pile of laundry will give you interesting journaling topics. The more creative photographs you take, the more you'll enjoy journaling. And years later you'll be glad you wrote about and photographed the uneventful stuff as well as the vacations. Your child will have a great time reading about it too.

Be creative, but don't get obsessive about it. Don't go join "cropping parties" unless you want a new social group. Buy a nice paper cutter, stick with straight edges on your photos (no circles will save hours), matte photos using solid-color card stock and buy the patterned paper in bulk (craft stores have "slabs.").

Write it down now. It's a good idea to get the adoption scrapbook album done sooner rather than later so your toddler can look at it, at least start keeping notes as you go so you will have lots of journaling ideas to choose from. Purchase a small notepad to carry around in the diaper bag so you have it handy when you want to write down something that happened or just record your thoughts.

My son turns five-years-old this month. The first year of his life I grew so tired of strangers telling me, "It goes so fast." Now I find myself smiling at little babies and telling the new mothers, "Cherish it. It goes so fast." Adoption is such an amazing experience and every time you look into your little one's eyes you think you will remember every single moment. But our brains can only hold so much and our children do change quickly. Record those treasured memories now.

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The Adoption Scrapbook Album is a quick, simple way to design a personalized lifebook. Use transparency overlays and friends will rave--even though you aren't crafty. Free downloads from Lisa Copen at Scrapbook My Adoption

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