Monday, May 21, 2007

MWF seeks BM. Smokers ok. No ugly Chicks.

So, we are getting ready to finalize the adoption application stuff. Which includes some really fun questions:

What do you think about discipline?
How is your sex life?
Do you like your spouse?
Do you beat your children?
What do you think about birth mothers?

Hint: All of the above submitted answers involve lying. There is a lot of lying on the application process. Unless our social worker is reading this, in which case we are COMPLETELY HONEST and think that the best discipline is a sweet talking-to wherein we lovingly explain why the fireplace is not the best choice of locations in which to take a nap.

The hardest lying comes with the web page and blurbs. We (and by "We," I mean "I" because W is not so much the applying type but the "Hey! Is that a new baby?!" type) need to come up with some really good phrases that describe us. Things that say "We are fun!" "We are cool!" "Give us your baby!" Heavy on the lies.

Not that we tell complete untruths about ourselves, but we sure as heck don't say "Mostly, we watch tv while recovering from the damage that the baby has inflicted on us throughout the day." or "We used to go on neat vacations, but now we are broke because of the first baby, and your kid will probably never get to go to Disneyland, either."

SO here is today's fun game--in three sentences or less, sell yourself to a person who you don't know, and who is carrying a member of your family, and who holds the keys to your continued family! Let's see what you can do.

6 comments:

dalene said...

You just reminded my that my little bro is still waiting for our family stats for his adoption papers.

Q. What does my weight and hair color have to do with his ability to be a good father?

Sell myself. No way. To sum me up: "I suck and I succeed." Who's going to buy that?

Sell my husband: "That Shane, he could catch a fish in that parking lot over there."

Sell my family: "There are worse places to grow up."

It's the best I can do.

Best wishes, as always. I think somewhere in their you need to mention your keen wit. It's definitely an asset.

dalene said...

And somewhere in there I need to learn to make less typos.

La Yen said...

There are worse places to grow up. Hmmmm. Maybe we will tweak that a little bit.

And they want your hair color so that they can show the birth mother what the extended family looks like--so if a Scandinavian birth mother is unsure because everyone in W's family looks like Jooj and him, she can find comfort in the blond and red on my side.

C. Jane Kendrick said...

This will most likely be read by teenage birth moms right? In that case:
I like to use credit cards! I have a pink razor with the tattoo flowers! I was way popular in high school!

Maybe I should start my own papers...

Sister Pottymouth said...

I don't envy you your task. I have no idea how I'd sell myself to a person I don't know. Let's see...

I only swear when I drop things.

I don't bite. (not very hard, at least)

I believe in manual labor. My children have to make their own beds.

Family vacations when I was a child consisted of going to Grandma's house to weed her garden.

Are we having fun yet?

dastew said...

Selfish couple seeks new adventure in parenting, without the stretch marks. Only well behaved, clean children need apply.

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