Mae's First Year Album

A Lifebook is a huge undertaking for an adoptive parent. It is, essentially, every scrap of information about life BEFORE the child joined her new family. Mae's Lifebook will take time, but I am lucky to have loads of pictures from the city of Huaihua. I have a few of the orphanage and I will leave some pages blank...waiting for our Heritage trip back. Hopefully they will allow us to visit the SWI then. In the meantime, I have her finding ad, 6 pictures of Mae and information about Huaihua City, Hunan Province and China. Explanations of the 'one child policy' and a brief history of the country will all be included in her Lifebook. A Lifebook is a unique, personal account of an adopted child's history.

What I've created for Mae is not her Lifebook at all, but simply a First Year Album, similar to what the boys have. Ted's is a true scrapbook, made of paper and all the trappings of scrapping. Sam's was done with a scrapbook program on the computer and then printed on photo paper and put in a scrapbook album. Mae's is all digital! We will be mailed the hardcopy, in the album, in a few weeks. Click on the picture above to view Mae's book.