Another therapeutic activity that is a personal favorite of mine is scrapbooking.

I’ve written before about Charlie’s life book. Creating his life book was empowering, healing, and therapeutic for me. His life book contains pictures, information from my childhood, and other miscellaneous information about my side of his biological family history. When creating his life book, I found comfort in the fact that through the life book he would always have something tangible with him to remind me of my love for him, even though I wasn’t physically there at the moment. According to A. (Charlie’s adoptive mom) his life book is one of his most treasured possessions and he is very territorial about others looking at it. That makes the work that went into making the life book so totally worth it.

I also enjoy just everyday regular scrapbooking of the pictures that I receive of Charlie and pictures from our visits together. Creating each page is therapeutic and I also enjoy looking back at the pictures in the scrapbook when I am feeling down or especially missing Charlie.

Other birthmothers create scrapbooks for children and find it therapeutic as well. Some create life books similar to the one I created for Charlie and then others create pages from the pictures of visits together.

Fellow birthmother, Leigh shares her thoughts about creating a scrapbook for her daughter.

For me scrapbooking is a way to remember the pictures that were taken during visits, especially when I was the one to take those pictures. It is just another way that I can remember and record those times and can go back and re-live them later. It is a way in which I can see for myself how she was doing at that time and how I felt.

Think you might like to give scrapbooking for your birth child a try, but not sure where to start? Here are a few links to get you started:

• Creating a Lifebook Part 1



• Creating a Lifebook Part 2



• Creating a Lifebook Part 3



• Lifebook Quotes



• Digital Scrapbooking



• Lifebook Resources and Ideas

Happy Scrapping!

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