Since we are pursuing domestic infant adoption, the way that our process works is that we put together an “adoption profile” or “adoption resume” (i.e. scrapbook-type thing) that a potential birthmother can look at when she’s trying to choose the family for her child.  The agency will give her all of the profiles that meet her requests (whether those are location, religion, marital status, race, whatever) and she looks through them to find the one that she feels is the right family.  Our agency gives us the choice of a 4 page or a 6 page profile, designed pretty much however we want.  The idea is that the design and the words and the photos, since they come directly from us, will be the best way to give her an idea of who we are and what we’re like.  As you can imagine, this is a somewhat daunting task, but I think we’re finally done.  I still need to take this to a copy shop to get 10 copies made to send off to Texas, but …. it’s complete!  The first page is what you see above.  If you want to see the whole thing, you can click on the first page and it will send you to a .pdf of all six pages.  Be warned that it is a large file and may take awhile to open.  The original design inspiration was from the designaglow folks, but then I put my own spin on it and created the whole thing in Microsoft Word.  Probably not the best program to do this type of work in, but it’s my most familiar and comfortable design tool, so that’s what I used.  I’m pretty happy with it.  J’s pretty happy with it.  We’re both very happy to be done with this part of the process.  As soon as I get this copied and sent off, there’s only one more hurdle (final approval of our homestudy report) and then we’re in the pool.  Woo hoo!