[ddhuab]

LOL, Scarlett - I agree with the happy anxiety (I guess that is the right term?) about creating a scrapbook. I have some other big projects going on right now - (finishing up my MA thesis), so now we have put off calling the agency and starting the homestudy so I will have TIME to get this stuff together! I think there are free scrapbooking classes we can go to at crafts stores, but I think in the end we won't really be doing that craft kind of thing.

I think the bmoms will want lots of words from you and photos so that she feels she can know as much about the "real you" as possible. Of course, I am not a pbirthmom, so I am not sure what one would want, exactly, but I am planning on including pics of the house, the dog, us with our our friends and extended family, us doing the things we do for fun (mostly oudoor stuff or playing board games or cooking or just goofing around singing and dancing around the house, but who would really want pics of that?), pics of our church, and I am going to include a picture of the baby's future room, although I don't know if I will completely fix it up before a match - that might be too depressing in the Waiting time.

I also plan on discussing our ideas of open adoption and how we want to include her in the baby's life with picture, letters, and occasional visits if she is (hopefully) open to that kind of relationship. (I probably wouldn't include this in detail in the scrapbook, but I am planning on writing it down for myself and my husband so that we can really think this stuff through so we can talk about it if/when a pbmother actually wants to meet us).

I just want to give her an idea of what kind of life her birth-baby would have with us and the types of places he or she would be growing up in.

Good luck with your scrapbooking!

D.