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Creating a Life Book: page 8, court -- and some final thoughts

by Karen Walrond, Posted Feb 10th 2006 11:05AM

A week after we returned from our first family holiday, we were scheduled to be in court to finalize Alex's adoption.  Page 8 of Alex's  Life Book  commemorates that day.  For this page, I decided to keep it simple:  there's ...
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Creating a Life Book: page 7, our first family holiday

by Karen Walrond, Posted Feb 8th 2006 8:00AM

After our daughter Alex came home to us, and toward the end of our 6 months "probationary period," we decided to go on holiday.  Under normal circumstances, we would've travelled to England to visit my husband Marcus' family; however, ...
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Creating a Life Book: page 6, the first six months

by Karen Walrond, Posted Feb 6th 2006 9:02AM

After putting together page 5 of my daughter Alex's Life Book, which was themed "christening," I realized that not much happened, as far as "milestones," with regard to Alex's adoption, so it took a bit of thinking to figure out ...
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Creating a Life Book: page 4, spreading the news

by Karen Walrond, Posted Feb 1st 2006 9:01AM

Having finished page 3 of my daughter's Life Book, I had pretty much told the story of how Alex came to be a part of our family in the first three pages -- and therefore, I was a bit stumped as to what the rest of the book should hold.  ...
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Scrapbooking 101, courtesy Martha Stewart

by Karen Walrond, Posted Jan 13th 2006 9:04AM

So I've been talking a lot about baby books and adoption life books lately, and I promised myself that on this trip to the United States, I was going to make a point to visit an art supply store to get started on my daughter Alex's life book.  ...
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Adoption Life Books: A special kind of baby book

by Karen Walrond, Posted Jan 9th 2006 10:09AM

A few weeks ago I wondered if anyone still keeps baby books, chronicling their kids' lives -- I was surprised to discover how many of you do.  In reading your comments, I was reminded of a conversation I had with a friend of mine, while waiting ...
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