One of the cooler parts of this adoption process is that if we agree to parent Rosie, her social worker will bring her a book we made about us just for her.
Rosie will get a day or two to look through the book, and then we get to meet her. So after 3 weeks of pouring over photos, we finally hammered out what we wanted to say and pictures we would want to include.
I created it through Shutterfly, which was far superior to Snapfish whose software kept killing on me or Kodak whose site was too confusing to bother.
Knowing this is Rosie's first impression of us made it a tricky project. I didn't want to over-promise how life would be, but I wanted to paint a picture that would make a child excited to meet us. I had to keep things pretty basic. I have a hard time writing in compound sentences. I tried to channel Ernest Hemingway.
Hemingway wasn't capable of being cheesy like I felt we needed to be. Thankfully, I'm good at being cheesy, but hopefully in an endearing or adorable way.
The book is being printed and should be shipped in time to give it to Rosie in a week from now. In 7 days from now, we could be meeting our daughter.
Crazy.
No comments:
Post a Comment