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Greetings to you,
It's Lisa Copen, Founder of Scrapbook My Adoption, back
again with your weekly adoption scrapbooking tip from
our Goodie Bag!
I had a couple of blog posts this week you may want to
drop by and read.
- Nominate an Angel in Adoption
- How Adoption Works… According to Kids (cute!)
If you would be interested in being a guest blogger on
any topic about adoption, please let me know! Just email
me at lisa@scrapbookmyadoption.com
I recently had the opportunity to review a book about
adopton--you may even have it on your shelf right now!
Just last year I spoke to the author, my friend Anetta,
and she was so excited because she had just gotten the
illustrations back from her publisher (and they were cute!)
This book for kids is a good one so I wanted to let you
know about it, in case you haven't read it yet.
It's called "Adopted
and Loved Forever" by Annetta E. Dellinger
and Janet McDonnell (Hardcover - Jan 1, 2009) and my good
friend Annetta has recently had it reprinted and the illustrations
alone really are beautiful.
But first, this is the last week for our June special.
. . this expires June 30th.
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JUNE'S
SPECIAL
Buy
$20 of any product and receive this transparency
for free!
(We
will automatically stick it in your order.
No need to add it to your cart.)
Your
child can be a covergirl or boy!
Turn
this...
Into this...
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Here is my review:
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children have a desire to hear how they became a part
of their family. Children who are adopted provide parents
with a unique opportunity to intentionally tell the
story of how God brought mom, dad and child together.
"Adopted and Loved Forever" by Annetta
E. Dellinger is a delightful chance to introduce children
to the gift of how God works out his plans for our lives,
as well as increase their own sense of belonging by
seeing their story in print.
As with any adoption book some people love it and some
do not. There is a constant conversation in the adoption
community about terms such as "natural parents."
Or do you show photos of a child who is the same ethnicity
or different. Is the child born in the USA or another
country? Does the child meet the parents at the airport
in the USA or do the parents fly to the other country
and pick the child up?
You will never find the perfect book that tells your
child's story exactly as it is, which is why it is important
to create an adoption scrapbook album or lifebook that
does that. But other books on adoption like this are
wonderful supplemental stories that share about the
many ways adoption brings families together. In comparison
to a personalized lifebook that make a child feel "special,"
adoption books such as "Adopted and Loved Forever"
remind a child that she or he is not alone--many families
are made through this process called adoption and although
they are special, they are not "weird" in
any way. They are part of an amazing, blessed group
of people who have changed our world.
As an adoptive mom I was elated to finally discover
a book that so closely resembled our family's adoption
story. Having it Christian- based is a wonderful bonus.
It will quickly become a treasured book in our home.
You can read more reviews and purchase it here: http://ow.ly/9L6r
Well, I hope this was helpful to you. If so, don't forget
to pass it on to a friend in your adoption community too!
Talk to you later!
Lisa Copen
Scrapbook My Adoption
http://www.scrapbookmyadoption.com
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