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I know that there are some of you out there who are so creative and great at doing these books, but I'm not one of you! Help. I just looked over the great link provided above about what to include. Thanks for a great jumping off point. Here are my questions... 1. Did you use originals of your pictures or did you have them reprinted to be included in the book? 2. At what age did your child 1st show interest in the adoption book? 3. Did you regret anything that you included in the adoption book? 4. Do I put letters that we have written to Birthmom in this book? For some reason, doing this makes me feel uneasy. Maybe I can just do a separate book of letters to **. Our DD is only 11 mos old now, so I have no idea what the future will bring w/ **. Ok, that's all for now. Just recently I bought a book that's covered in cute lady bugs. It's put together w/ a lady bug ribbon so that more pages can be added as necessary. Does this sound silly? I got the book at a yard sale for $1. The only other thing that I have for scrap booking is a pair of scissors that cuts a pretty edge. How can I make this look pretty without spending a small fortune? Thank you!
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Welcome! I definitely would not put my only copies of pictures in the book (childrens fingers and all) You may want to consider making the pages and then color copying them for your childs 'hands on' copy. I adopted my girls at 5 & 8 so they were always interested in their books. I don't regret anything I have included - but am stressing on what and how much more to add to them. I think a seperate book for the birthmoms letter would be nice. I have a friend that got a book of all of her moms Christmas letters when she got married, which she treasures.
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Hi! We have a semi-open relationship with our son's bmom, so I did not put any info about her in his main scrapbook, because I dont' know how much she would want us to share with other people. Instead, I keep the one picture we have of her and what little personal info we have on her in a separate place to be shared with him privately later on. His book now is focusing on our family and the great joy he brought to it. Lots of photos of loving family members and all the baby showers we had and his first holidays and our home. It starts with our trip to the agency to pick him up and then continues a few hours later with the first night we brought him home. From there on, it's a typical baby book, except for a few pages on Adoption Day (finalization).