Although we had the support of our family and friends, we didn’t have anyone truly objective to edit our letter and to give us feedback. We did have a friend who offered to put our photos and text together, but it took months, and we felt badly every time we had to nudge things along. Our agency was helpful and passed on many good suggestions, but the staff there was busy and we felt as if we were on our own. Fast forward three years. After our adoption, I went to work for the agency that helped us adopt our son. I used my background in design to create profile books for adoptive families. I found such joy in working with people and creating beautiful, fun, and meaningful profile books for them, and then watching them be successful in their outreach with expectant parents. My desire to be working from home and to spend more time with our two sons led me to create Our Chosen Child. As an adoptee and an adoptive mother I have been an advocate for adoption all my life. I believe deeply that adoption brings families together with an unbreakable bond—the love of a child. Adoption is a spiritual contract.

My profiles are not designed to be a slick marketing piece, but rather to help adoptive families represent themselves honestly in a beautifully written and designed profile book. The profile book may be all a birth family has to look at through the years, and it will certainly be an important part of your child’s baby book. The time spent creating a profile is a gift to birth families, adoptive families and most of all to our chosen children.