Though I am a crafty lady, and though I have tried my hand at rubber stamping and scrapbooking, I find I need something a little quicker and lower maintenance. Thus, I tend to blog as a way of chronicling my children’s lives.

Though I blog here at AdoptionBlogs, I have a personal blog for homeschooling, as well as a family site. Blogging provides a quick way to summarize each day, or events such as trips or special days. Most blogging tools allow the posting of multiple pictures. Best of all, most sites are free or offer a free version of their premium services.... more

How do we find more information for kids who have so little?

This is part three in a series listing many ideas on how to gather information to compose life books for some of our adopted children. Some of our children come with nearly no information about their birth. These ideas can't give them all of their information, but can help ground our kids with a solid sense of their birth and surroundings. Click here for Part... more

How do we find more information for kids who have so little??

Here are a few more ideas for neat things to add to your child's lifebook. (Check here for other ideas.)

**Magazine pictures or copied photos of kids that might have looked like her – i.e. baby magazine picture of baby with big brown eyes that remind you of how he probably looked when he was little. This idea sounded “iffy” to me, but one of our... more

How do we find more information for kids who have so little??

A recent birthday blog by Wendy brought up that some of our children have little or no information about their birth. I’d actually already been thinking about this over the last few days. I can’t recreate the birth experience for them, but maybe I can find some tidbits of information to add to their lifebooks to form some little bit of birth history for them.

Here’s what I’ve come up with:

**Do... more

I am a Life Book negligent adoptive mom. Or would that be Life Book challenged? Life Book disabled? I know how important the concept of a Life Book is for many adoptive families. I respect and admire those parents who are diligent about keeping a Life Book for their adopted children. I'm just not one of them. From the moment the girls were permanently placed with us, we were caught up in the actual day-to-day living with them. The business of putting together and maintaining the Life Book about our journey to becoming a family just never made it to the top of my priority list.

I... more