A family profile is required at the end of your home study, so the agency can show your information to birth moms in a way that reflects your family. They can include any information that you want (with certain requirements) and can look however you'd like them to, so the sky's the limit.
We spent a lot of time trying to figure out who we were as a couple and what made us unique, so that our profile would reflect that. We decided that at the core of who we are, we are creative and goofy. If there was a hidden camera in our house, you would catch us building pillow forts and shooting nerf guns at each other, or making up a song about mutant food as we put groceries away. That creativity and silliness is what we tried to include as much as possible.
We decided to go with a modern magazine approach hoping that would make us stand out from the crowd. Derek has been working nonstop for the past few weeks putting together this beautiful profile from scratch (there's that creativity I was talking about). Thank goodness I married a graphic designer because not only did he save us a ton of money making it himself, but it is 100% us from the design to the content.
We found that this was probably one of the hardest parts of the process this far. It's hard to show who you are as individuals, as a couple, and as a family in 20 pages. We rewrote the content several times trying to pick and choose what was most important while trying to stay true to who we really are. We even argued over which pictures to include, all the while wondering how you explain to a woman that you'll love them and their child more than they can ever imagine in text and pictures? We pray that it will be obvious to her.
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