Putting Together Our Profile

We have been hard at work, putting together our profile for our placement agency. I know I mentioned we were working on this in a post a month ago, and it's true... we're still working on it! This is definitely a SLOW process!

Profile Part One: The photos. We are getting together 50+ pictures that show us, and what we do. We have categories that we have to fill (couple together, husband doing hobbies, wife doing hobbies, family and friends, etc) and we have to write fun captions for each of them.  That's the part we're working on now -- it's not as easy as it sounds! I've included just a few of the photos we're including throughout this post.

Profile Part Two: The words. We have to write an introduction that is supposed to 'catch the interest' of birthparents (50-75 words) and make them want to read more about us (What, can't they tell from our pictures how AWESOME we are!?!?). We have to write about our families (150-250 words), and also about our home & neighborhood (150-250 words). We have to choose six other topics, and write between 100-250 words for those as well. Some of the choices are: What does it mean to be parents?  What qualities do you love and admire in each other? What makes you unique? What are your strengths as individuals? What takes priority in your life? What made you who you are today? What will you tell the child about his/her adoption? and lots more...

The hardest one is the "Dear Birthparent" letter. This is 500-700 words, where we get a chance to speak from our heart, and try to explain to someone who we are and give them a reason to want US to be the people they choose to parent their child. That is no simple task, seriously...  but I wrote about that in a previous post, so I won't bore you with that again.  Just know that it's something we are putting a lot of thought into, and hopefully it will "speak" to the right birthparents.

And last but not least, there is the part that seems simple, the "Favorites" section -- which actually hasn't been that simple at all! Who knew picking a favorite movie could be so complicated!! But we're getting there... we plan to submit our profile by the end of the week, at which point our placement agency will put together a print profile (almost like a brochure about us) and an online profile as well. This will be so exciting to see!!  Hopefully we look like the kind of people who would be good parents...!!