Pick us! Pick us! PICK US!!

Hey - I may NOT totally suck at this blogging thing after all!  I think I was able to change our blog name to "a man and a lady seeking a baby".  Lame, perhaps, but funny indeed!  I just couldn't figure out how to be rhyme-y and add Coop to the mix.

And now, back to the task at hand...PICK US!!
Craig and I have been working on our profile and trying to figure out how to best "market" ourselves to prospective birth moms (and dads).  Because I'm not a sales type of person and Craig sells banking stuff, we have found ourselves in a bit of a pickle.

The first problem we have with this profile is the photo album.  While we have some great wedding pictures and we have some great shots of Cooper, we don't have any of the two of us that aren't self pictures.  Now, only having self pics isn't a problem until loading them onto parent profiles and shrinking them to fit their parameters.  Can you see where I'm going with this??  Yeah, suddenly our "cute" shots look like crazy fun house close-ups .  So, although we really want to draw attention to ourselves, we don't want to scare people.  And these pictures are scary.  It honestly looks like we are jumping right off the computer screen - BIG faces first!  Luckily, we aren't completely inept and we'll work it out.

The second problem is writing the Dear Birth Mother letter.  Craig has written a lovely draft and has only tasked me with adding thoughts and sprucing it up, at his request.  Here is where the sales/marketing personality comes into play.  I know that Craig and I are going to be excellent parents and I know that our baby or babies will get the best we have to offer, but I don't know how to sell that.  And this is where I've been stuck for the last month.  I've diagnosed myself with a severe case of writer's block, but since I'm not a writer I'm not sure the diagnosis will stick.

And then, just when I was getting really frustrated with my inability to get this done correctly the planets aligned and I was given an excellent suggestion.  I saw my awesome chiropractor today and she suggested asking those that know us quite well to write down what they think we need to add to the letter.  Brilliant!

We'll be working on the profile this weekend (so I can avoid homework) and will have it up by the end of the month.  When it's done I'll post it here and will ask that you all forward it on to everyone you know and ask them to forward it to everyone they know, etc.  According to our attorney most independent adoptions occur through word of mouth, so start running your mouths people!

Don't worry folks, if the PICK US!! campaign isn't successful then we'll roll out plan B.  I'm not going to give you all the details, but you should know that you may see our crazy-fun-house-HUGE-face pictures on a roving advertising truck or billboard near you!  That'll work, right?!

The journey starts....NOW!!

We are writing this blog to detail our journey on becoming parents through domestic adoption.  For those who have adopted, you know this process is challenging and exciting and we hope you can offer us suggestions and humor while we travel this road.  We're excited to share this experience with you and we hope you stick around to meet our baby or babies!  As an added bonus - neither of us have any idea what we are doing regarding "blogging", so it's sure to be comical...ready, set, GO!