So as I stated in my last post, I have been busy making our profile. The profile is a small scrapbook of your family. It is what the agencies show to birth mothers, so they can make a decision as to who they want to place their child with. I can not even begin to imagine what it must be like to make a decision like that. The courage it takes, is more than I have, that's for sure. It's easy for us. A birth mother chooses our family, we gain yet another blessing and get to pour our love on them. The birth mother, however, places a child in our arms and goes home. They make this decision looking at pictures of families and possibly speaking with them on the phone a few times. Can any of you imagine doing that? I am humbled by these women who make the ultimate sacrifice for their child......and for our family. If it were not for women who make the decision to place their child for adoption, our home would be childless. I am forever grateful for the 2 women God has put in our lives to help us build our family.
This post sort of took a turn of sorts. Started with me mentioning making our profile...... Our profile is complete. I sat down at my scrap booking table a few days ago to begin. I got as far as cutting all my paper into the correct size. I then got distracted and went online to look at other families profiles. It was then I realized, I needed to be doing this digitally. Funny right? I was making it by hand and then went to look at others online. Should have realized earlier I could do it online! Then I began searching programs to help me make it. This turned into hours of research on how to do it digitally. I fell asleep at my computer working on it.
The next day, after finding a program, I sat down, yet again, to make our scrapbook. Hours later I completed a draft. I made 2 different books. The first one was practice. I made the whole book, then went to the print options and realized I could only print in one size, and of course, this size was too big. So, back to the drawing board to find a template that would print smaller.
After completing the draft, Emery checked it and we made a few corrections. We now have a finished product. I am going to share some of it with you. This is not the whole book, but it is a majority of it. There will be a few more pages inserted within this version. Maybe after I get the whole thing scanned as a PDF file, I will attach it to a post. For now this is all you get:) Click the link below to have a sneak peak!
Skolfield Family Profile
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