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Adoption Gift Giving Guide: 2010 If you’re anything like us, you’re surely thinking, “It’s December again...already?” The holidays have a habit of sneaking up on us and there never seems to be enough time to get everything done. As parents, we understand that one of the most daunting holiday tasks is gift-giving — what is one of the most rewarding aspects of the season can also be the most stressful. Making sure that everyone in your life has a special something under the tree is no small task, especially when you’re looking for something as specialized as a gift celebrating adoption. To help take the pressure off, we’ve compiled a list of what we think are some of the best adoption related gifts on the market. Take a look at the items we’ve found below, turn on your favorite holiday music, sit back with a mug of egg nog, and enjoy the holidays. One of our favorite traditions is giving our children new ornaments each holiday, and this adoption ornament from Many Hearts One Beat ($14.92) is a wonderful way of celebrating both the season and your child’s adoption. The ornaments are available in various styles, each bearing poignant thoughts on the gift of adoption. Best of all? Your child will remember how special they are each year when they hang their ornament on the tree.
When blustery winter weather keeps you indoors, scrapbooking is a wonderful weekend activity for you and your children. Scrapbook My Adoption makes this task even more special by creating scrapbook pages specifically for chronicling your child’s adoption process. With pages entitled “The Wait” and “Answered Prayer,” these are unique additions to any scrapbook, and are a wonderful way to personalize your child’s tale. At only $2.75 per page, you can pick and choose which ones best fill out you and your child’s story.
Immortalize your child’s adoption story into a book that they can keep forever Your children aren’t the only people involved in your adoption process who deserve to feel special. Depending on the relationship you have with your birth mother, the holiday season is a wonderful time to let her know how much you appreciate the sacrifice she made. With birth mothers, you don’t want to go over the top or make them feel uncomfortable — something simple that shows your respect for them is perfect. We love the idea of keeping a photo album of pictures of your child just for your birth mother. Photos showing how happy and healthy your child is make the perfect gift. That way your birth mother knows that you care, and she has something to remember her child by. What could be better? Although holiday gift-giving has a tendency to take over the season, remember that spending time with family is first and foremost. ‘Tis the season to be a family! And most of all, to give thanks for the blessed gift that is adoption. A very happy and blessed holidays from the One True Gift family to yours.
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About Our Agency Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions is a full service, licensed adoption agency founded by adoptive parents. After our personal adoption experiences, we wanted to utilize what we had learned by creating an agency that strives to provide the most positive adoption process possible. Our staff is available to provide maximum support from beginning to end, as we work with adoptive families and birth parents nationwide. Having been through the process ourselves, our goal is to meet the needs of birth parents and adoptive parents alike, supporting the individuals involved from all aspects of the adoption process.
If you are interested in the adoption process we encourage you to contact us for more information. December Birthdays Happy birthday to all our December True Gifts!!!
Book Corner A collection of great readings related to adoption. A Mother for Choco, by Keiko Kasza All About Adoption, by Marc Nemiroff How I Was Adopted, by Joanna Cole Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born, by Jamie Lee Curtis Dear Birthmother : Thank You for Our Baby, The Complete Adoption Book, by Laura Beauvais-Godwin Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution Is Transforming America, by Adam Pertman Birthmothers: Women Who Have Relinquished Babies for Adoption Tell Their Stories, by Merry Jones Making Room in Our Hearts: Keeping Family Ties Through Open Adoption, by Micky Duxbury Born in Our Hearts: Stories of Adoption, by Filis Casey and Marisa Catalina Casey When Adoptions Go Wrong: Psychological And Legal Issues of Adoption Disruption, by Lita Schwartz |
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