Create A Professional Adoption Scrapbook Album Fast

Waiting to adopt a child can seem like the endless journey without a map. One way to make the time go faster is to go ahead and start an adoption scrapbook album. Journaling your thoughts about the waiting process, the things you've bought, the home study, etc. will all help you feel like the arrival of the child is the next step. Plus, you'll begin to see why recording your thoughts will be so precious when your child arrives.

Adoption albums don't have to be overwhelming. The best place to start is with a list of topics about the adoption experience. These can be found on a variety of web sites including my own which has over 150 topics.

Consider if you'd like to do an album on your own, purchase a pre-made adoption book from your favorite bookstore, or even hire a freelance scrapbooker. They will do a pre-designed book for you. One of the best options is the Adoption Scrapbook Album. It's twenty pages of transparency overlays, and you get to choose five that specifically fits your child's experience. They make scrapbooking stylish and fast.

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.").

Get it in writing. While it's important to finish your adoption scrapbook album so your child can start looking at it even as she is a toddler, at least start writing notes for the album later. Some may end up in a different album, but you'll have lots of journaling to choose from. Buy a little notepad to stick in the diaper bag and write things down while they happen.

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.

About the Author

The Adoption Scrapbook Album is a quick, simple way to design a professional lifebook. Use transparency overlays and friends will admire--even if you aren't crafty. Free poems and quotes from Lisa Copen at Scrapbook My Adoption

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