Books Books Books

Ok everyone, I need your help. If there are any books you have read lately that pertain to adoption, I would love to have your suggestions...I have ordered 2 that I can't wait to get and start reading but would like to constantly have something I am learning on this adoption process. So, send me your suggestions!!!

Locks of Love

I totally forgot to post this, but Punky got her hair cut! She wanted to donate her hair to Locks of Love, so we were waiting until she was in my friend's wedding and then we got it cut! So, I will show you some before and after pictures...she got a total of 10 inches cut off!!!

Baby Book

So I have been thinking a lot lately about the baby we will get (I say baby, it could be a two year old, but to us it will be a baby). When you're pregnant you prepare for the baby and take pictures of the "pregnant belly" and the baby showers and all of that fun stuff. Well, with this baby, there will be none of that. I look back at Punky's baby book/scrapbook and see pictures of all of that and it really started to get me thinking about what will I put in this baby's scrapbook. Yes, we will of course have pictures of the orphanage and the plane ride home, but I want more. I want this child to see that we prepared for them too. That we planned and anticipated just like with Punky. And with this one, we even had to work hard to get them here! So, I decided I am going to take pictures along the way. Hubby doesn't quite understand what I am feeling, but I think it is a mother's heart for her child ~ even though I don't know them yet!!

Well, last week we met with our caseworker and unexpectedly found ourselves downtown getting fingerprinted for our file. So, I decided to take some pictures of the event to capture yet one more thing we had to go through for our baby...it's not a belly or a shower, but it is one more step closer to getting him/her home and one more thing we prepared for them. It isn't much, but it will go in their scrapbook and we will always remember that day! So if I post some pictures along the way that seem insignificant, to you or me they may be, but someday they will mean something to our son or daughter in their baby book.