to PHaey
Hi,
I'm pretty new to this forum, but am learning alot and and am enjoying the chatter.
In response to your questions about the DBML and to the portfolio I would give this advice:
Do write a letter that gives birthmom credit for an awesome decision to give her child life. Also, give some insight as to how open you are to contact. Just to open and honest to why you are adopting as a single person and to your reasons for adoptin in general. Tell of your relationship with your family, friends, church, etc. Give her mental pictures of how loved this child would be in your care and your families union. Tell her about tour interests and what you would be able to expose the child to; ex: museums, parks, zoo's, schools.
Your portfolio will be the hardest most fun thing you'll ever do. Be creative in presentation. We were told in a seminar to not leave anyone out of your portfolio, to include pictures of all family memebers, yourself on vacations, with your pets, other children(nieces/nephews), holidays, special times. Use as many captions as you can so she knows who she is looking at. Here's the tricky part. Keep it between 12-15 pages. We went a little overboard and ours was 37 pages long. This I can only imagine would get boring and maybe even turn a birthmom off. We are in the process of refining our portfolio. It also gets pretty expensive to print and package the portfolio after a while.
We are waiting for our second adoption. We adopted a beautiful little baby boy in April of 1999. He will be four in April and really wants to be a Big Brother and we are anxious to love and nuture another child too.
Goo Luck to you on your special journey!
Kim
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28
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