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I think the birthmother letter is a separate thing from a scrapbook. Most of the agencies I have been checking out seem to require both. I think birthmom's read a letter, which usually includes a "resume" and pictures but is short. Then I think the pbirthmoms request "profiles" which seem to be scrapbook-type things. We are still in the "inquiry" process (and saving up money process), but I have gone ahead and purchased some scrapbook materials and I am planning on looking through photos and making new ones in the next two or three months, then putting a real "scrapbook" together in hardcopy as well as one online for a personal web-page.
I don't think it will be a waste of time, since it will probably help us out a lot to get the info in the format the agency/agencies need, and it will also be available for our website. I plan on doing some networking-type stuff in addition to signing with a very small (local) agency and (possibly) with a larger agency.
Unfortunately we don't have a lot of pictures of us, despite being together 11+ years ... we just never got a good camera and figured we would get one when I got pregnant - which never happened! Now I have a digital camera and a tripod and I am going to have our friends clicking away at us all the time!
Good luck with your scrapbook!
Later,
D.
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