Writer’s Block

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It's 4:00 am. Insomnia, not something I normally suffer from, is visiting me. This only happens when I am really worried about something. I know what it is. We've been putting it off for days, weeks now. I can't put it off any longer. It's time to write the hardest letter we'll ever write.

Dear Birthmother...

I've "researched" as much as I can, but research isn't going to help. This has to be from the heart. I write marketing copy every day but this isn't like that. This is much different. It's extremely personal and really hard.

We have to figure out a way to explain everything important about ourselves to someone we've never met. We have to tell them who we are, what we believe in, where we come from, where we are going, and how much we want to share our love with a child all in a single page. Be open and forthright without telling them too much and overwhelming them.

We need to be positive, happy, encouraging, and attractive without begging, patronizing, manipulating, or offending anyone who may read it. We have to be relatable and likable to someone very different from us in ways we will never know. We have to be honest and sincere but without really saying what's really in our hearts: please like us enough to trust us to be your baby's parents.

I don't even know where to begin...

This is an archived blog from 2011. Return to the blog home to read other posts from In the Family Way.