Adoption Profile Video Madness!

Working for years in front of the camera, I was suprised at how nervous I was to do this profile video!  I guess it is because it is letting someone into your personal life, and also trying to 'sell yourself' as a future parent.  That being said, hubs and I studied our nerdy bullet points (surprised I didn't take out color coded flashcards!) over and over Saturday and Sunday in between moving furniture (nursery is almost done!).  Being sleep deprived the last week, my spaghetti brain was leaking and it was basically like watching a bloopers tape as we sat and practiced.  We finally decided we would make up a cue card with the bullet points to guide us.  Yes, that, my friends, was color coded.

We got to the 'studio' and WOW!  For 400 bucks it was interesting.  We walked into a somewhat shoddy house that was quite messy and I immediately felt my allergy medicine working double time as the cat and dog jumped up on us as we tried to sit on the couch that had a makeshift plywood foundation for the seat.  He did not even have video lights set up?!  Just a floor lamp and table lamp tilted our way.  Were we going to get murdered?  Was this all a set up?  Lucky for us, it was not a murder scene, just a quirky videographer, who was pretty nice, despite his tangents about global warming, and dropped the F bomb a few times, so we know he had my heart.  We definitely got jipped by our agency (apparently he only sees half of the fee), which makes me a little nervous, but what can we really do at this point?  We shot take 1, and it was pretty good, but we felt we could do better.  After take 2, he said my hubs needed to talk more in the video.  I squealed, "I told him to!  He is shy!"  Hubs jumped in, "She is way better at this stuff than me."  Hubs lost the battle and I gave him a few of my lines.  I kept the funny ones ;)  Always so greedy.  Take 3 went off without a hitch.  Other than the lighting making us look like we were telling ghost stories at a camp in 8th grade.

I went off script at one point and said, "We also love to create music together...I sing, he plays guitar.  We think we are Simon and Garfunkel, but, well...I am a girl."  Unfortunately or fortunately, that made it to the final cut he sent us last night.  Not sure how many people want Simon and Garfunkel to raise their child, but we will find out.  and after we will be put into the pool later this week!  Anxiety crawls all over my body like a millionlegger.  That is disgusting. I take it back.  Sometimes descriptive words are too descriptive.  Great, now I am going to have nightmares.

Koo-koo-ka-choo, Mrs. Robinson, Jesus loves you more than you will know.
Bumpless Baby Mama





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