My Special Care Scrapbook for Foster Children: A Special Scrapbook for Foster Children

Karen Jean Matsko Hood

Jan 2014 · Whispering Pine Press International, Inc.

About this ebook

 This scrapbook is especially designed for foster children to help them to remember their unique and sometimes complicated journeys through life.  Scrapbooking provides an outlet of expression that may not be available in any other form.  Families get involved and show their foster children how much they love them by helping them fill in the pages of this book. 

     Author Karen Jean Matsko Hood has written My Special Care Scrapbook for Foster Children to keep those special memories, reflections, and thoughts in a safe place for your foster child.  Help them fill it with photographs, memoirs, stickers, and awards to complete the book of memories that will be treasured for life.  You can even add any information to this scrapbook that you may obtain prior to your child’s adoption so that they know more of the special people who cared for them while they are in foster care.  The author has first hand experience raising foster children and she knows how 

About the author

 Karen Jean Matsko Hood began writing as a shy author, but has now developed a voice that is all her own.  Hood exhibits a unique story as well as a voice of empathy and purpose. Hood's writing is strong-minded. She is a meticulous wordsmith and combines stories with compassion. Hood has always loved children and is devoted to the needs of children. It is only natural that she would channel her efforts to include children's books and poetry. Hood reminds us of the importance of our links with nature and environment in our daily lives. Her writing carries the urgency and outrage of the current social injustice and inequality. The recurring theme in Hood's work is to provide a voice for those whose struggle cannot be heard. Hood's writing brings poignancy to the most hopeless of situations. She is romantic in her vision for a quest for dignity and social justice. Hood also writes about personal and spiritual themes. She is passionate both as a feminist and as an active children's rights advocate. Hood also works to encourage literacy for all ages. Her blend of traditionalism and modernism brings a current freshness and uniqueness to her own poetic voice. She is versatile in her writing style and is able to incorporate a wide range of themes and topics. Her poems have been published in a myriad of magazines and publications.  Karen was born and raised in Great Falls, Montana. In May 2001, she completed her Master's Degree in Pastoral Ministry at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.  Hood is working on research projects to complete her Ph.D. in Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.  She resides in Spokane, Washington, along with her husband, many of her sixteen children, and foster children. Her hobbies include cooking, baking, collecting, photography, indoor and outdoor gardening, farming, and the cultivation of unusual flowering plants and orchids.