I was never going to be a scrapbooker. The scrapbook albums I saw were lovely, but the idea of cutting my photographs and then taking the time to add something those crazy people called  embellishments? Let’s just say I wasn’t a “sticker” kind of chick.

Then we adopted a son. I couldn’t find a baby book or an adoption book that had my son’s journey and I kept being told about the title”life books.” But that wasn’t what I had in mind. Every child’s story is unique.

So I went down to the little scrapbook shop and began choosing stickers, trying to find something other than those with clip art of storks and quotations about pregnancy. Eventually, I started putting together my own scrapbook overlays with transparencies so I could have really great looking looking pages about the adoption journey from the homestudy  to Adoption Day. I held my breath as I cut my photos.

Now I cannot even consider that I nearly passed up the idea of scrapbooking my babe’s story and having dismissed out on this joy.

Every child has a special story about his or her birth, but for the adopted child, the account is an exceedingly extraordinary story that needs to be recorded in their own Adoption Scrapbook. Now any mom (even the non-crafty parents) can quickly create that special adoption baby book album.

Lisa Copen hopes her struggle to find to an Adoption Scrapbook Album won’t be yours! She has created over 100 transparency overlays so adoptive mothers can easily assemble a personalized adoption scrap book for their family and child. It also makes a great gift for one who is planning on adopting!