[BrandyHagz]

Pretend, for a moment, that you are creating the perfect Christmas Ornament for sale to other adoptive parents – this ornament would signify your roll in the triad and would be something you would want to display in your home. What would the ornament say?

It would be suitable for gift giving (someone might give this to an adoptive parent for a gift) as well.

[bajj]

I received one once, it was a locket and you open it up and can put a pic in it and it said, "Forever Family." I might change the wording, but I love the ornament. I used finalization photo in it.

Hmmm, I will have to think about what I would want it to say and get back to you...

[Leigh131313]

Holy crap Ani - your avatar is hysterical!!

Brandy I of course would want MY ornament to say #1 Hottie.....but for adoption??

I actually would not want a specifically "adoption" ornament. However, certain sentiments would be nice like

A Family is Made with Love


hmmm...i can't come up with anything right now other than that!! sorry brandy!!

[sunflower1220]

This is just a suggestion but what about saying something like "Adoption..........(insert whatever pic or whatever here in middle) The Most Precious of Gifts.

My thoughts with that phrase is in the fact that no matter how you adopt (international, domestic infant, foster care) you were given a beautiful gift. In terms of the birth parents (for infant adoption or open adoption) it would be way to honor them for giving their child so selflessly.

I'm not really sure, it's just a thought, since I haven't experienced the joy of adoption just yet I'm just basing it off first thoughts.

[sunflower1220]

Originally Posted by Leigh131313

A Family is Made with Love

Ohhhhhhhhhh I so love that!!!! What a great idea, that way it woud work for anyone.

[Vogi2002]

I am not sure what I would want...something maybe that signifies how we are all connected (maybe some pretty glass thing that kinda wraps around each other and into each other) with a little charm at the top that says very simply about how we are all interconnected with Love or what not.

I would want something that was abstract like that...something that is a symbol of how all of who my son is...is what makes him who he is, and is why I love him the way I do. But more than that, how because of him, we are all connected with love....our lives intertwined in caring for him...in different ways...but making up this beautiful image...KWIM?

[kelceesmom]

No sure here. Maybe a glass blown triangle.

Something with words sort of like this: Love knows no bounderies. Or love has many paths.

Boy, now I know why I don't write greeting cards for a living!

[myheart]

Since I collect Radko ornaments, I would like a blown ornament shaped like a heart with a little boy in the center with the word son. If I had a daughter the same, instead of little boy in the center I would like a little girl. Or a blown heart with a Father, Mother and a son in the center of the parents....with the word Family.
I personally do not like anything with the word adoption. Off this board we are not an afamily we are just a family.....adoption for us is just the way we became a family.

[mommieof2cuties]

Dear Brandy:

How about forever in my heart (for bmoms/bdads)

and for acouples forever in our hearts and you put the date you adopted and childs name

I think it should be a nice blow glass heart with a picture of a baby,toddler,child boy or girl.

God Bless,
Summer

[nawlinsmom]

I saw something yesterday at the bottom of a post written by "tinatyme" and it read "I didn't give you the gift of life. Life gave me the gift of you." I thought this was just beautiful. I also love the idea of having a heart with this saying and then allowing us to engrave childs name and perhaps a date that means something to us.

[DianeS]

I'd like something that showed an older child. Right now I've just given generic "family" or "adoption" ornaments to my friends who adopt older children, but I have literally dozens of choices for my friends who adopt infants or who give birth, that feature adorable infants and happy families. I have only ever seen one adoption ornament (and it was a sitting ornament, for a table top not a tree) that featured an older child.

Skin and hair color is an issue too - if I could design anything, I would make the people "colorless" - by making them out of clear glass, or uncolored wood or stone. That way it would fit regardless of the racial makeup of the family.

[DianeS]

I came up with one!

How about a SET of ornaments? Pick and choose the ones that apply to you - man, woman, older boy, younger boy, older girl, younger girl, infant - etc. "Colorless" of course. With personalized words on each, with space for names, and the way and date they joined the family or are important to the family. That would take 3 or 4 lines for each ornament, I think.

Families could then select the ornaments that applied to them - mom, dad, infant and the infant's birthmother, for instance. Or instead of the infant and birthmother, an older child who was adopted by them plus his sibling who lives in another placement. An internationally adopted child, her birthparents, and the foster parents who cared for her before placement. A family could then honor anyone in the triad or who was/is important to them and their child.

[myheart]

For those of us whom are a part of an open adoption,
I like the idea of a blown heart with two moms
holding a child (boy or girl) that reads.....
A Family is Created with LOVE!
OR
The Greatest Gift of all is, LOVE!