Our profile books are now complete and are off to the agency. Our parents and siblings are all very supportive of our plans to adopt, and are excited to welcome a new family member. They will share our book with prospective birth moms, who will read through it and decide if they would like to meet with us. It still very surreal that we are bringing home our baby girl in a little over 2 months. We went with the layout entitled, hand drawn patterns, as it most suited our. Weve made it easy to tell your familys unique story. Stories are memorable and appeal to our senses, lists dont. So i set out to make our profile book, and realized this created an opportunity for me to help other parents who needed an. This book makes a great gift for birth parents and birth family members, too. I highly encourage you to read my post 10 things not to include in an adoption profile, which will help you steer clear of the most common adoption profile book mistakes. Adoption profile book howto adoption profile books. Many people use photo web sites, such as mixbook, shutterfly, and snapfish. Recently i spoke with two birth mothers, aubrey and erin, about adoption profile books and what made them choose the family that they ended up choosing for their child.
Although she couldnt put her finger on it, she was convinced there was a problem. Its actually been done since october, but im just now getting around to posting it, as blogging h. Welcome to little blessings adoption services, llc adoptive parent profiles page. If you need any help designing your adoption profile book, we suggest getting in contact with amy payne of amy payne photography. Types of adoption adoption books adoption stories foster care adoption open adoption foster to adopt adoption shower baby lane birth announcement girl. Welcome, and thank you so much for looking at our adoption profile. Where to start on your adoption journey jennifer wilder. With mixbook s custom photo books and cards, you can start from a blank canvas or choose one of these popular adoption themes to get started.
How to create an amazing adoption profile book mommin. We chose the paperback because it cost slightly less and was much easier to ship to different agencies. What to put in your adoption profile and what to leave. Mixbook will send you a pdf of your profile book after you have made your purchase at the time we made ours in august 2018, they were still doing this. Adoption profile album is part of our family photo books photo books collection and is backed by our 100% satisfaction guarantee, just like all of our other photo books, cards, and calendars. We are kim and josh, a very active and loving family. Mixbook uses only the highestquality, heavyweight papers that are ethically sourced from sustainable forests and certified by the forest stewardship. She was wonderful to work with, and was very professional and prompt. Then i encourage you to think about the following ways. They drove right to the hospital and gave her our mixbook. After reading it with her and looking at all the family pictures, we tell her how happy we are that kim and charlie chose us to be her mommy and daddy forever and ever. Its a vulnerable thing, to post this on the internet for the world to see. Our adoption profile book and video all things with purpose. Our first book the agency used for about six months and then we got a new social worker that said it was too confusing with all of our extended family in it with long stories about each we have a large extended family.
When i created our adoption profile book, i elected to have short descriptions and sentences for the majority of the book. A profile book is a lovely way to show your individuality and create a lasting first impression. How to make your adoption profile unique rose clearfield. The adoption love book is a beautiful way to help teach your child about hisher adoption. I cant thank you enough for allowing me the opportunity to introduce us and share a bit of our life with you. Beyond the basics of creating an adoption profile, it can be tricky to finetune your portfolio to make it truly unique. Now you have an idea of what to put in the adoption profile. One of the steps i most looked forward to from the beginning of our adoption journey was creating our adoption book. In case you are wanting a closer look or more details of how we did our book. In some adoption situations, time is of the essence and it is much faster for birth parents to view the pdf file than to request a copy of your profile and wait for it to arrive in the mail. You could also use apples pages or even microsoft word. She was as excited as we were as we discussed the book. Adoption profile books to grow your family youtube.
After complete your purchase, start a chat with customer service and ask for a pdf of your book. We know the adoption profile can be overwhelming, and hopefully, these three tips help a little. Having a nicelooking profile is good, but some businesses are starting to exploit these families fears that they wont be. Our agency requires one, and im not seeing this as an option on web sites such as mixbook. About 9 months after the pair married on a michigan farm under clear, blue. She was very open to suggestions, yet had a lot of wonderful ideas to give us. Do not be afraid to tinker with your layout, words, and colors to create an adoption profile that is as unique as you are. Adoption profile books to grow your family mixbook. Our journey to you adoption adoption profile creation.
The next official step in the adoption process is to be matched with a birth mom, and. Whether you are a potential adoptive family beginning the process of creating your adoption profile, or youre a birth family beginning to select a family, aubrey. We felt that our book needed to be nice and professional looking, but couldnt afford to pay a professional, and i wasnt sure how our agency would want it printed, so i couldnt use a book site like mixbook. If youve recently welcomed a bundle of joy into your family through adoption, congratulations on your newest family member. I highly suggest using mixbook when creating your adoption profile book. How the vances used a mixbook adoption profile photo book. Adoption profile album is part of our kids photo books collection and is backed by our 100% satisfaction guarantee, just like all of our other photo books, cards, and calendars. Our birthparents carried our book with them to the hospital and shared with the. Jul 29, 2016 ive been promising to show details of our adoption profile book. Adoption books and websites designed with you in mind. For one, i wanted to stand out, to show who we truly were as a couple.
Even if you like your current intro, there are several good reasons for an occasional tuneup. Our book is a little wacky, it isnt perfect, we dont take pretty pictures but it is filled with love and laughter. We were thrilled with the profile book that kelleigh made for us. If you need help creating your adoption profile, and are looking for a modern, photocentric profile, we are here to help. As i have shared in previous posts, we had to make an adoption profile book for the birth parents to look at. Check out our custom adoption profile services here. We know creating a profile book can be overwhelming and stressful so i hope you find this. A profile that reflects you in this way is important because you, the expectant parents who read your adoption profile, and the child you hope to love and raise, all deserve for you to have an honest, ethical and authentic start to your relationship. Today, we keep a copy of our adoption profile book in our daughters room. For a closer look at the making of an adoption portfolio, heymama spoke with tobi curtis, a nurse in californias bay area who used the mixbook design platform to create her familys book. All of the families i work with have put their heart and soul into their adoption profile books. We made our domestic adoption profile book through mixbook, to see our book, follow the link.
Our mission statement at little blessings adoption services, llc our mission is to be obedient to the word of god, show the love of jesus christ in our everyday work and promote christ centered adoption by creating personalized adoption profiles for married couples hoping to adopt, giving children a future with a daddy and mommy to call their own forever. Anything but ordinary life would love to create your adoption profile book. Mixbook also supplied us with a free pdf file of our profile book. Mixbook uses only the highestquality, heavyweight papers that are ethically sourced from sustainable forests and certified by the forest stewardship council and the rainforest alliance. Adoption profiles from a birth mothers point of view. Some agencies require a shortened adoption profile book be presented to expectant parents. Adoption profiles are your chance as a hopeful adoptive parent to make a. Mixbook adoption portfolio with letter to the birth parent adoption books, open. In private domestic adoption, your profile is what expectant parents look at to. The development process is similar to the long profile bookstyle, but the final product is 2 pages of content 1 page, front and back or 4 pages of content 2 pages, front and back. When it comes to writing said letter, i highly recommend the book. Kids photo books adoption profile album by mixbook. Ive been promising to show details of our adoption profile book. Naming conventions aside, it is a vital piece of your adoption profile and youll want yours to be as lean and effective as possible.
Marcus is the lead pastor at a small church, and amy works part time in direct sales. Our adoption agency requires waiting families to submit a portfolio. Our adoption profile book adoption books, foster to. I wanted to share today how excited i am to finally have our adoption profile book, video and web profile completed. While we were going through our home study, we were thinking, ok.
Create an oneofakind adoption profile book or adoption announcement that stands out. Learn what to put in your adoption profile and what to leave out to increase your chances of getting chosen by prospective birthparents. I didnt really think about it because i was so excited about getting the books, but i actually feel slightly nervous and embarrassed putting so much of ourselves out there for everyone to see. What not to say in your adoption profile book as a writer and typea lady, i spent a lot of time reading online profiles written by prospective adoptive parents and deciding what not to write. How can i create an adoption profile that stands out. It is a combination adoption storybook and adoption baby book. How the vances used a mixbook adoption profile photo book for both of us, familys always been important, says sean.
Once you have been matched with your adoptive child, your profile. The mixbook adoption book created by the curtis family. Shutterfly s adoption photo books are a perfect way to create a custom, personalized book that tells the story of. With mixbook, you have the choice between a hard cover or paperback book. Our adoption family profile book thank you all for your love, support, congratulations, prayers, comments, messages, and pure excitement from the recent post on our adoption.
What has happened in the adoption world, though, is a sort of profile armsrace. Check out her adoption profiles page for more information on her services, and check out our interview with amy payne to get to know a little more about her and the process. The second time, i used a program called memory mixer. The quality of the book is great and we are thrilled with how well it turned out. For anyone using an agency and profile book, how did you get an electronic version pdf of the profile book. That means expectant moms will be flipping through the pages of this book soon, deciding if they want their baby to call us mom and dad. I have had the privilege of working closely with all of these families creating their adoption profiles.
We sent out our adoption profile book to 3 agencies. How we created our domestic adoption profile book improv. Create an adoption portfolio book filled with love. Once you have been matched with your adoptive child, your profile book becomes a lasting keepsake to share. She worked hard to find out what we wanted, and made it work for our book.
It speaks volumes about you and allows birth parents and workers a first glance into your life. What not to say in your adoption profile book brown sugar. As an adoptee and mama through the blessing of adoption, honest, ethical, and authentic profile creation is important to me. We are glendon and kiera from beautiful coastal maine. Here are the digital versions of each page so you can see how ours was done. Please share our profile book with anyone considering adoption. We were home study approved for our adoption a few days before we left for vacation and we had already printed our profile book, so i dropped the copies by our agency office and then we headed out on a flight the next day to beautiful south florida.
It gave her all the artistic freedom she needed without having to reinvent the wheel, so to speak. Adoption profile book howto anything but ordinary life. Here are a few tips that will help you create the perfect adoption profile book that will. Writing an adoption profile is one of the most important and challenging parts of the open adoption networking process. In case youre unfamiliar with the matching phase of an adoption. We used them to create our profile book and i was thrilled with the quality.
It has to be a bound book of certain proportions, and it has to include certain sections. We love to have friends and family to our house marcus is a great cook. Megan, a graphic designer, chose to use mixbook to make their adoption profile book because it allowed her to adjust the layouts, pictures, typefont, etc, however she wanted. We met in college and always wanted to start our family young. Or, you can choose to design the profile book yourself as we did through mixbook.
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