A Family Profile is basically a scrapbook about our lives that we share with a birth mother, in hopes that she chooses us to be the parents for her child.
It includes information about our families, home, community, hobbies/lifestyle, personalities, beliefs/traditions, and our hopes for the baby.
This is our selling point to get matched with a birth mom, so we knew we needed the BEST people to help make it happen.
Our adoption consultant, Susan, created our book for us. We gave her words and photos, and she put together this amazing book. I love her designing skills, and we think the book is fantastic.
Ona is a friend of mine from high school, and she offered to take photos for us at her photography studio. Many thanks to Ona and Infinite Image Design for the awesome pictures in our Family Profile! We love them!
So what's next?
We just applied with three different adoption agencies in the U.S.
Now that our information is on file, we will start receiving information on available adoption situations. If it sounds like a good match, we can choose to have our Family Profile presented to the birth mom. If the situation does not sound like a good fit for us, we don't have to send in our information.
And now the official waiting game begins... :)
Woohoo! WHAT AN ACCOMPLISHMENT! Hope you guys do something fun to celebrate the paperwork being DONE! Praying for a peaceful, quick wait -- we can't WAIT to see the post that a birth mom CHOOSES you! xoxo
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