What do you think of our profile book

Go_Dawgs

It's still a work in progress, and I need to add a dear birth mother letter.  Also, the two blank pages will have some additional photos of fun things I've done with my cousins that are still on my camera.

I'd love suggestions.  I previously ordered 10 8x8 books with fewer pictures and words to send to attorneys, but this one I'm creating for our agency.

Thanks for any tips!

 https://www.artscow.com/share/u79thsa62xnn

 

WinWed

Thank you for sharing! It's very nice. We have a lot more words in ours but I think every situation calls for different levels of detail. It's a great format.

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You have some great photos.

Go_Dawgs

For people who included more words, what information did you discuss that we don't have in our profile?  

WinWed

We included a bunch more information on our background and beliefs on what we feel is important for raising a child.

cjmorgan

My son's adoption is through a Christian agency so for most of the profile books the families have information about their religion. I would put that in if that is a big part of your life. Also a lot of the books I looked at just had a little "thank you for looking" kind of note at the end as a way to close. Don't worry about having lots of words yours is a good in between to me. I actually picked a family who maybe had three paragraphs total in their whole book. Also I love your photos!! A lot of the families I looked at had a bunch of pictures of just themselves as a couple...it would get kind of repetitive. The family I liked  had tons of family photos, pictures from traveling, and goofy photos! Now this is just what I liked but your album is very cute! I definitely would have given it a long look at if you worked through my agency!

Go_Dawgs

cjmorgan:

My son's adoption is through a Christian agency so for most of the profile books the families have information about their religion. I would put that in if that is a big part of your life. Also a lot of the books I looked at just had a little "thank you for looking" kind of note at the end as a way to close. Don't worry about having lots of words yours is a good in between to me. I actually picked a family who maybe had three paragraphs total in their whole book. Also I love your photos!! A lot of the families I looked at had a bunch of pictures of just themselves as a couple...it would get kind of repetitive. The family I liked  had tons of family photos, pictures from traveling, and goofy photos! Now this is just what I liked but your album is very cute! I definitely would have given it a long look at if you worked through my agency!

Awww.  Thank you so much.  It's so great to have you on this board so we can hear a birth mother's perspective on so many issues.  I look forward to hearing about your birth story and how things go in the future.  Are you doing an open adoption? 

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We included information on why we wanted to adopt.

What my DH loves about me...what I love about my DH.  Written in our own words.

The story of how we met.

Information about what we do together as a family, not just individual interests.

Information about our family/extended family.

GulfCoaster

When I was looking, there was a blank page after the photos of your best friend...  Is that supposed to be there?

Otherwise, it looks very nice!

Go_Dawgs

GulfCoaster:

When I was looking, there was a blank page after the photos of your best friend...  Is that supposed to be there?

Otherwise, it looks very nice!

Thanks!  The blank page is to add more photos.  I have some super cute ones of things I've done with my little cousins - eating at the Cheesecake Factory (they both insisted on wearing tiaras that my mom got them for Christmas), at the theatre to see Annie, at the cabin walking the dogs, and a couple really cute ones from when I took them to tea.  They are still on the camera, though, and we lost the adaptor to get them on the computer, so those pages are blank until we buy a new adaptor!

cjmorgan

Aww no problem! Yes I am doing an open adoption. I actually told the family I was ok with only seeing him maybe once a year till he turns 18 because I def want my son to know I may be his birth mom, but the family I picked are his parents. But the family wants me to be more involved and as surprising as that is I am completely ok with that haha.