I took some time last week and sat down to write our dear birthparent letter. I like to think that I wear the "writing pants" in our family, but Bill definitely has his input. Grace even had her own little say in it. I struggled to write it...not because I couldn't think of anything to say, but because I wanted to make sure what I wanted to say came across the right way, how I was actually feeling. I bawled my eyes out in the beginning. It was very tough. I tried to put myself into the shoes of the birthparent who would be reading it. The decisions that they would be making weighed heavy on my heart. I cannot imagine what they will feel while reading it, but I hope that my letter will help ease their mind, whether they choose us to parent their baby or not.
We sent the letter to Beth, who read it over and sent it back with no suggestions or corrections and said it was great. This was a huge relief to me! The only thing we have to do now is choose all of the photos that will go in our book. We've chosen most of them, waaaay too many of them, so we need to condense our life in photos to a mere six to eight 8.5x11 pages. Piece of cake. Hmph. I'm hoping to have a rough draft of the whole book done by next week when she comes. After it's reviewed, we'll make copies and they'll be shipped up North, ready to be sent out for viewing. I'm shooting for the end of October....exciting!!!
I had a rough time picking out the front page picture for our book, With the help of facebook friends, we chose the one below. What do you think?! *A big kudos goes to my sister for taking some pictures for us....though she is not the photographer in our family, she does a pretty good job!*
Whoever and wherever you are, thanks for following our adoption story! We look forward to giving you a happy ending to read! As always, feel free to leave or email any comments and or questions you have....love hearing from you!!
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