The past few weeks have been a complete whirlwhind. We had both of our Homestudy appointments within a 10 day period, were approved on March 3rd (last homestudy day) and were placed on the wait list to go into the infamous "Book." For those of you that don't know what the "book" it is, it is profiles that you create that the birthparents can look through and choose you. You only get 4 pages (2 front and back) to get your message across! SCARY. We were told on March 6th we were 3rd on the wait list which could be 1 week or it could be 2 months. I guess it is just dependent on how matching goes. LSS only has 55-60 families in the book at the same time. So, we decided we wouldn't worry about it till we heard something! Well, 2 weeks ago we got the call that we can "go in the book" and that we have 6 weeks to get our profile in.
I never thought that a 4 page marketing piece about us would be so hard. We are currently selecting photos and coming up with a theme. Our friend Dani is helping us out with the design and we will most likely take the entire next 4 weeks updating the profile and creating a website to include on it for birth parents to also look at.
It feels good to have gotten this far so quickly. We have an "outreach" training this week to teach us other ways to network and find birthparents outside of the "book."
I will come up with something more cerebral when I am done with this profile! It is taking a lot out of us!
The other bonus to all of this: I know feel comfortable walking through the baby section at Target and going to Babys R Us without wanting to burst into tears....baby steps but it is something!
Smooches!
J
