Tell a little more about the girls. Are they foreign adoptions or from your area? Were they foster children? What grade level do you expect them to enter?

If they are from another country, a selection of books, starting with some early childhood books to help them learn the language. If they are from the area, they are VERY familiar with american culture. Tickets to a show for the "family" would be nice. Foster children often have had less perminance in their lives, something to be just theirs maybe even engraved with their new "full" name.

If the office is going in on one large gift, bicycles, a swing set or even a video type game (playstation, x-box).

Susan

we have adopted 2 children--one was 8 one was 10--we had a party and our church put a congrats in the church paper--we did however ask that no gifts be given--just had a big party with lots of kids and adults