[tobeafamily]

Our cards read something like this:

Active, fun loving couple hope to adopt. We're ready to provide a safe, stable home full of music, laughter and love for a newborn or twins.

Please contact us anytime!

Steve & Regina
(local number - we set up a separate unlisted 'baby phone' number we forwarded to our cells when needed)
(toll free number - directe to unlisted #, also forwarded when we weren't at home)
email address
website

Now, a word of advice: Make sure you're always able to answer the phone number you advertise - forward if necessary. Friends of ours just came home with their second child Friday (8/13). How? Bmom gave birth, decided she couldn't take care of baby, called every ad in the paper that day. Our friends' ad was the 5th ad BUT they were the first to answer the phone. Bmom basically called and said 'I have a baby. Do you want it?' Since they answered their phone they got the opportunity, both families decided within a day it was a connection, and now they're parents again. Bmom didn't even consider anyone else she called b/c she figured if they didn't care enough to answer the phone # they advertised, they really didn't want her baby that much.

So, in a nutshell, 4 other families didn't even get considered BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T ANSWER THEIR PHONE. So be sure you can ALWAYS answer it.

HTH

Regina, AMom to Ryan Joshua Thomas