Hello,

We are Julie, Barry, and Luke. We hope that getting a little glimpse into our world may make your very important decision a little easier for you. We are committed to giving this child a life of love and support.

We have known each other for 14 years and have been married for nine years. We started out working together and quickly became friends. While dating, we took trips together (like Alaska, New Orleans, and California), bowled on a league (although we weren’t that good), and often took long drives by the beach singing loudly to our favorite CD (again, not that good). We got engaged on New Year’s Eve while the fireworks were going off. Since we both love to travel, we decided to get married in Italy and spent a wonderful honeymoon eating pizza and gelato and enjoying the amazing sights. It was all very romantic.

Here’s a little bit about our son Luke: he loves skateboarding – you should see his ollie; scooting – he pretends he’s a El Torro Loco, his favorite monster truck; picking out tons of library books and reading them ALL once we get home, and his guitar and drums – he can be heard from houses away!! Oh, and of course ICE CREAM! Anywhere you go with Luke, he is always social and talkative to others. Ben and Matthew have been his best pals since he was six months old. And Nicki is his favorite girl friend whom he says he wants to marry. We often have talks with him about having a brother or sister in his life, and he responds by telling us all the things he will teach his new sibling. He even pretends his dog, Jordi, is his sister, feeding her, giving her a bath and teaching her how to dress like a pirate.

Here’s a little bit about Julie: Julie works part-time as a nurse practitioner and her schedule allows her to spend maximum time with Luke which is important to both of us. Julie is very caring. She is always helping out at Luke’s school, making snacks or helping the kids bead necklaces. Julie loves to scrapbook, read – she can’t go to sleep if she hasn’t read at least a few pages of her current book, and spend time with her family and friends.

Here’s a little bit about Barry: Barry works full time as a database administrator. He is an involved father, coming home from work ready to play. He is also a caring husband, letting Julie sleep in on the weekends, making dinner most nights, and playing silly made up songs about his family on the guitar. He has a great sense of humor and is very easy going. He loves golf (and has been to see Tiger Woods three times), playing at least once a week, and cooking – he makes the best fresh guacamole in the world. Just ask his sister-in-law.

We own our home with a fenced in large back yard. We have a wooden play set. Luke is always hanging from the monkey bars or jumping off the swings. We have a large sandbox with a new digger, and recently we have built a small pond with a rock wall in the middle of it. What fun! We have lots of friends with children in the neighborhood often getting together to scoot, play ball or ride bikes in the cul-de-sac. We even have a neighborhood block party coming up soon.

Family is extremely important to us and get-togethers are very common in our house. Barry’s parents and Julie’s sisters are very involved with Luke. Grandma watches him once a week for a few hours and we are always at her house swimming in the pool or fishing in the lake. Julie’s sisters often come to play on the weekends. You should see Aunt Jenny riding a scooter! And Aunt Katie has wonderful stories that keep Luke glued to her for hours. Barry’s sister, who he has a special relationship with, is adopted and this gives us all a greater appreciation and understanding of the unique and special gift of adoption.

Again, thanks for spending the time to read this letter and we hope that you have an idea of who we are and how excited we are to adopt. We hope that through this extremely difficult process that if we are the family you decide upon, you will have comfort knowing there is nothing more important in our lives than the love and support we can and will provide to a new baby. And that he or she will always know about the amazing woman who gave us such an incredible addition to our family.

Sincerely,
Julie, Barry and Luke

Hello,

Thank you for taking the time to read about us and our life together. We realize this is a challenging time for you, and that you want the best for your baby. We hope this letter will help you get to know us a little better.

We are a small family consisting of ourselves, a parrot, and our fish. We met about 9 years ago at work and knew that we were meant to be together. I was still in college and Chris was starting his first job after graduating. We dated for 6 years before getting married on a beach in New Jersey 3 years ago. Shortly afterward, we made the decision to move down to Florida. We loved the year round warmth, opportunities for outdoor activities, and family oriented neighborhood. We live in a community with a playground, pool, tennis court, and soccer field. We chose this area because we were looking for a nice neighborhood to start our family.

We were both raised in New Jersey and take trips back there to visit our family and friends. Chris’ parents recently retired to North Carolina and we also enjoy visiting with them for holidays and family get-together's. We have shared our decision to adopt with both of our families, and they are all very excited to welcome our new baby.

Chris is an advertising executive, while I stay at home and do administrative work to help him in his career. This situation will allow me to be at home full-time to raise our child. We enjoy traveling, playing tennis, taking walks, and going to the beach together. Chris loves to both play and watch hockey, while I enjoy yoga, bike riding, and spending time with our pet parrot. We have a very strong and loving relationship and want to add a child to our family. Sadly, we found that we are unable to have children, but are hopeful that we can complete our family through adoption. We feel we can offer our child a loving, caring, and stable home to grow and discover their place in the world.

We both look forward to raising and caring for our child. We will share all the joys and responsibilities of parenting together, and are excited about welcoming a child into our lives. We will support them emotionally, financially, and educationally. We believe it is important to be open and honest with our child about the special way they came to be a part of our family.

We know that this is a very difficult decision for you to make, and we hope this letter helps in your search. We wish you the best in whatever you decide. Sincerely,
Jen & Chris

Dear Birth Mother,

This letter is sure to be one out of many that you read through while trying to find an adoptive family for your child. A family you connect with so much that you decide they will be the ones you trust to raise your child. We're sure that any of the families who you consider will provide a loving, caring and nurturing home. We pray for you and your child and wish you all the best.

We met each other while playing rugby. I played for the women's team and Mark was captain of the men's team. When our teammates found out that we had started dating they were not surprised. In fact, they all claimed that they knew we would end up together.

We started trying to conceive a child right after we were married. After seeing many doctors and trying many different fertility treatments we decided to look into adopting a child. Shortly after we began the process we found out that I was pregnant! Unfortunately he was born still at 31 weeks, with the Drs. all being baffled as to what happened. We led a team in the March for Babies walk about a month later in our sons honor. Our families and friends rallied around us to help us get through that time in our lives.

Family is very important to both of us. We look forward to the day when our family grows with our adopted child. We hope to have more than one child either through further adoptions or biological. We are both practicing Catholics and would raise our children to understand religion. Education is very important as well as sports and exercise. Our children will be introduced to all of our favorite teams. The Arts are something we both enjoy as well. I love to read and Mark paints and also writes short stories.

Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and learn a bit about us. We pray that you will be happy with whatever decision you make. If you are considering us then we look forward to meeting you soon.

With Love,
Lori and Mark

Dearest Birthmother,

We are so happy that you are considering us for the parents of your baby. We are so anxious and excited to start this new chapter in our lives as a married couple that we can hardly talk about anything else!

It goes without saying that YOU are the reason we can even daydream about having a baby. Your brave and loving decision to place the baby you carry under your heart into the loving arms of a Mommy and Daddy who will love him or her and provide a memorable childhood and a bright future is the most admirable thing one human being can do for another.

All our love and prayers are with you,
Jenn and Chad

Dear Birth Mother:

Thank you for letting us share our story with you…

From Arden: We have been married for 12 years. It was one of those things where you just knew it was right when we met and ever since. Well, actually I knew right away and Wendy eventually came around. As most people experience, there have been good times and tough times. We are fortunate, however, that there has been much more good than tough. The toughest times, however, have been related to trying to start a family. We have been unable to have a biological child.

We hope that you will consider us as adoptive parents. We have a warm home in a neighborhood where everyone helps each other out. The other kids on the street play outside often while their parents talk and watch over them. There is a dock on a lake only a short walk from our house that is used for fishing. Our neighbors can’t wait for us to start a family and frequently ask us about it.

Wendy and I like to travel. Day trips are great, whether it’s to the beach followed by ice cream or to a college football game. We’ve also taken longer trips out West and New England. I can’t wait for the day when we take our children on a cross country trip seeing natural wonders such as the Grand Canyon and other strange tourist sites such as the world’s largest ball of yarn.

We are close to our family and friends. My parents live only 25 minutes away and my sister’s family, including 2 young children, lives within an hour. Wendy’s parents and brother live about 1 ½ hours away and are excited to be first-time grandparents and uncle. The hardest part of the holidays is figuring out where we will get together. We also get together with high school and college friends every year even though some of us have moved 1,000 miles away.

From Wendy: I love to write. I wrote record reviews for a music magazine when I was a teenager. I still send handwritten notes to family and friends and I spend a good part of my workday teaching writing and reading concepts to language impaired children. This letter is different. This is what I consider to be the single most important piece of writing that I will ever complete.

As I was procrastinating by reading a book, I found inspiration in the phrase “have no fear.” I put down the book, picked up my pencil, and began to write to you. I realized that, if I was feeling emotional and apprehensive about what to write, then you may be feeling a similar depth of emotion. I hope that your fears can be eased by the fact that the thing in this world I am most sure of is that Arden and I want to be parents. We want to parent a baby, but also a child, an adolescent, a teenager and even an adult. Our own parents are still a constant source of strength to us, even at 38.

The idea that a child may soon come to join our family has brought us peace and joy and we wish you the same.

Most sincerely,
Arden & Wendy

Dear Birth Mother,

Hi, we’re Ricardo and Cathy. Thank you for considering us as adoptive parents. It takes a lot of courage and strength to make the decisions you have to make.

We have been very blessed in our lives. We met in college and fell in love immediately and have been married for 5 ½ years. We have faced many hurdles and each one has only made us stronger and love one another even more. We both come from large families and love spending time with them. We both love kids and between the two of us have 11 nieces and nephews. Adoption was not a hard decision for us; we know it is the right one. We can’t wait to be called Mommy and Daddy. Our parents are ready to welcome more grandchildren and the rest of our family and friends are very excited.

We live in a quiet neighborhood, plenty of kids to play with (all of them are pretty excited too), lots of room to explore, learn to ride a bike and many more things that we want to teach. There is a big yard for a tree-house and a pool to keep cool in the summer. We enjoy traveling to see our family and have some fun. Cathy likes to cook, takes after her grandmother and mother. Friends and family are always near to enjoy the food. We are both very active and enjoy the outdoors when we can. Ricardo enjoys windsurfing and playing soccer, both of which he can’t wait to teach our children. We love pets and currently have a Golden Retriever named Lancelot; he loves playing with kids and bringing them all his toys.

Together we run our own successful small business; it gives us all the flexibility in the world. We will have no problems devoting our time to raising a child and our employees are all very supportive of our decisions. It is a small group of employees but they are like our extended family and we know that we can depend on them to take care of things when we are not able to.

You can be sure that if you choose us your baby will grow up in a stable home surrounded by unconditional love. Nothing would make us happier than to be parents and we look forward to all the smelly diaper changes, lugging around all that baby gear and best of all we look forward to raising a happy and healthy child. We know you have a lot of things to think about and can only imagine how difficult it must be for you. Whether you choose us or another wonderful couple our thoughts and prayers are with you. Sincerely, Ricardo & Cathy

Dear Birth Mother:

We deeply respect and admire your generosity of spirit as you consider how to make the best decision for your baby's future.  Thank you for bringing your little miracle into the world.

We're Jon and Joanne and we are very excited about becoming parents. Our loving relationship is the foundation of our family.  Jon will be a patient, engaged father. He’s athletic, relaxed, and above all kind. Joanne will be a nurturing, supportive mother. She’s a good listener and affectionate. We work well together as a team and our values point us in the same direction. 

We enjoy the time we spend with our extended family and many friends. We love to travel and we enjoy simple pleasures like hikes, picnics, and festivals. We place a high value on education to foster curiosity, creativity, and lifelong learning. We promise to encourage our child's talents and dreams just as our parents encouraged us.

Our Catholic faith is very important to us and we're members of a wonderful parish community. We trust that God has a child in mind for us and our faith is something we will lovingly pass on to our child.

In our career choices we have worked to serve others. Jon is a financial analyst supporting the government. Joanne has had a varied career from teaching to management. Joanne feels she is called to motherhood and all her previous jobs were preparation for the role. We've agreed that Joanne will stay at home with the baby.

We were blessed with such wonderful parents and we hold them as excellent role models.  Between us we have 15 siblings and 14 nieces and nephews.  They’re all very eager to welcome our baby into the family.  We wish you blessings for your baby and peace.

Warmly,
Jon and Joanne

Dear Birth Mother,

Thank you so much for considering us.  We are a down to earth couple who are unable to have a biological child of our own, but are excited to experience the joys, responsibilities and challenges of raising a child.

We have been happily married for 12 years.  We own a beautiful home in a family friendly residential neighborhood less than a mile from the beach.  The local elementary and junior high schools are walking distance from our house.

Both Brad and Leslie’s parents are eager to become grandparents for the first time.  They are looking forward to spending time with and spoiling a grandchild!

We have many close friends that we consider family.  There are many children in our group of friends and in our neighborhood, so our child will grow up with many good buddies.

We hope this information helps in your difficult decision.

Thank you very much!
Brad and Leslie

Dear Birth Mother,

Hello we are Joanie and Paul. We are so very grateful to you for having given us the opportunity to tell you about us. We truly hope that we are the family you are seeking to assure a wonderful home and life for your child.

We are a very active, loving couple so very eager to share our love and interests with our adopted child. We live in a new home in a nice gated community with lots of young families and children. On weekends, we enjoy going to the beach, which is just a few hundred yards from our home, with our dog, Jake, he is a sweet yellow lab. Jake loves to swim, as we do. We enjoy tennis and biking. During vacation, we enjoy skiing, visiting our respective families, who reside out of state, and trying new vacation spots. Our friends and family often comment how happy we are. That is simply because we are the best of friends and thoroughly enjoy one another’s company. Paul is an incredibly kind, patient and loving man. He is extremely bright, an avid reader and a talented musician who plays several different instruments. I look forward to the day that I can watch him read and play music with our adopted child. I enjoy all kinds of sports and love to cook and make crafts. I am very active; people say I have a lot of energy. Paul, my friends and family tell me that I am a very loving and caring person. I am confidant that my adopted child will feel that care and love. Paul and I know in our hearts that if we are blessed with a child, we will be terrific parents.

We can’t thank you enough for considering us. We look forward to providing a full and wonderful life for our adopted child filled with many wonderful memories and promising opportunities. Your child will be welcomed and loved by us, several eager and loving grandparents, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, and many friends. We are certain that being parents will be the most rewarding experience of our lives, and we would be honored if you would consider us. Just like your child, you, as birth mother, will always be a special person in our hearts. We will ensure that our adopted child has that same appreciation. We greatly admire your courage to consider placing your baby for adoption, and we want to assure you that we will be absolutely devoted to providing a nurturing home filled with the love that every child deserves. We truly hope that you bless us with that opportunity. Paul and I know in our hearts that if we are blessed with a child, we will be terrific parents.

Joanie and Paul

Dear Birth Mother,

It is with the greatest honor that we write this letter to you. Your courage and strength is remarkable and the amount of love and selflessness you have towards your baby and to life are extraordinary. We are thankful that you are giving us the opportunity to tell you our story.  If you choose us to embark on this journey with you, we want you to know that we will always tell our child their adoption story and the unparalleled courage and strength you demonstrated and the wonderful way we became a family.  We also want you to know with all of our hearts and souls that we understand and empathize with you and your difficult decision to choose adoption. 

Our names are Jim and Kerran, and we are excited to share our story with you. We were married in August of 2004 and always knew we wanted to have our own family. We are both nurturers who have so much love to give. We both strongly feel that our family was meant to be created through adoption and look forward to the future with a great deal of hope, peace and excitement.

We both have professional careers that provide us with financially stable lives. Kerran has a Master's Degree in Education and works as a High School Guidance Counselor within our local community.  Jim has a Bachelor's Degree in Communications and is a Photojournalist for a local news station. We are a fun-loving couple that enjoys being active together. We own a beautiful home in a small town, close to where we both grew up. We live close to many of our relatives and have a large group of friends that are truly like extended family. We are very active and enjoy spending a lot of our time outdoors. We are truly best friends and are happy to admit we both have a great sense of humor and know how to have fun. We are proud to say that our friends and family enjoy our company and have often commented on how loving and compatible we are to one another. 

Together, we have a large extended family. Jim is the youngest of 5, and has three older sisters and an older brother and Kerran has one older sister. We have a total of 13 incredible nieces and nephews and Uncle Jim and Aunt Kerran are without a doubt adored by all of them! We both had similar childhoods that served as a great example on how we will raise our child. Creativity was fostered; we were loved with structure yet always allowed to express ourselves freely. We grew up knowing we could accomplish anything if we put our minds to it. 

Our family and friends are so very excited about our prospect of adopting and have been unbelievably supportive. They cannot wait for the day to come when they get to meet our child. We are so excited because there are so many children within our network of family and friends to welcome our child to our family.  There will never be a shortage of friends, family, love, support and hugs for our little one. Everyone is waiting with open hearts and arms.

Thank you so very much for taking the time to get to know more about us. We hope to embark on this journey together and have the opportunity to show you the love that we have for each other, and the love that we have to give to a child. If you choose us, we will always share with our child the courage and love you had to make this choice.

With Love,
Jim & Kerran

Hello!,

We are Jim and Aimee and are very excited to be expanding our family through adoption!  Our story began when we met on the Internet.  It wasn’t long before we realized we had found our “soul mate” in one another.  We married as a family in 2006 with Tyler, Aimee’s son from a pervious marriage, standing beside us at the wedding.  When we learned we could not have a biological child, adoption became the perfect way to expand our family.  As you explore your many options, we hope you’ll choose us knowing that we can provide the security, stability, happiness and love every child deserves.

About Jim (from Aimee’s perspective):  Jim is not only my other half but my very best friend!  I have never met a man who is more caring, honest and thoughtful.  Not only does he have a tremendous heart, but he is a devoted husband and father.  He is amazing with children and has become a wonderful father figure to Tyler.  In fact, Tyler calls himself “mini me” because he wants to be just like Jim.  Aside from his job as a financial analyst, he is an excellent cook, loves sports, and above all, enjoys spending time with us.

About Aimee (from Jim’s perspective):  Aimee is an amazing woman who is the love of my life!  Before meeting Aimee, I seriously wondered if I would ever find the qualities I was searching for in a wife – loving, caring, honest, compassionate, strong family ties, a sense of humor – in one woman.  Lucky for me, Aimee and I found each other and my life has been better every day because of it.  Where Aimee differs from many motivated people is that although she has a successful career as an accountant, she continually puts her family first.  Her devotion to our family and friends is an endearing quality that attracted me to her from day one!

Tyler is a typical little boy.  He loves to play games, use the computer, watch cartoons, play baseball, wrestle and eat us out of house and home!  Tyler has become a great swimmer and also participates in karate.  He loves school (he is now in 2nd grade) and enjoys reading to us now at bedtime instead of us reading to him.  Each night, we spend time together as a family at the dinner table and talk about our day at work or school.  Many nights we play games, read or have some quiet cuddle time on the couch. He is really looking forward to becoming a big brother so he can teach a sibling all about the things he enjoys doing. 

We live in a wonderful family neighborhood where children are always outside playing.  We live very close to excellent school and value education and the role it will play as our children grow.  We have a four bedroom house with a room ready and waiting for a new baby, a great hill in the backyard for sledding, and plenty of books, games and toys to expand and enlighten a child’s mind. We believe the best quality of our home is the love, laughter, and happiness found inside.

Being parents has been such a great joy and privilege, and we, along with both our families, are looking forward to welcoming another special baby into our lives!  We know this is an incredibly difficult decision for you.  We hope from reading our letter you can get a sense of who we are and about how enthusiastic we are to adopt.  We hope you choose us knowing that your baby will be incredibly loved and that he/she will always be told about the wonderful woman who gave us such an amazing gift!

Thank you for considering our family,
Jim, Aimee and Tyler

Dear Birthmother, We cannot begin to know what it is like to make the difficult decision you are facing, but we recognize that it will be a decision that is very loving and selfless. We greatly admire your courage to consider placing your baby for adoption, and we want to assure you that we will be absolutely devoted to providing a nurturing home filled with lots of love.

We are so excited about becoming parents to a wonderful child and look forward to the joys and challenges of parenting. We look forward to cuddling and comforting our child, reading bedtime stories and teaching him or her to read. As our child becomes older we want to help him or her discover and develop the gifts, talents, interests, and abilities that make our child truly special and unique.

We live in a terrific community in a newly developed neighborhood full of children of all ages. Our home is within walking distance to a beautiful recreation park that has a playground filled with swings, slides and seesaws which would light up any child’s eye.

If you decide to place your baby in our hearts and lives, we want you to know your baby will be treasured and loved unconditionally. We look forward to providing a full and wonderful life for a child filled with many memories and opportunities. Being parents will be the most rewarding experience in our lives and we would be honored if you would consider us as adoptive parents. You are a special person in our hearts.
Dave & Caroline

Hello! We're Sam & Kim and we, like you, are on a journey. Just as you are trying to decide upon a family that will provide a loving and encouraging home, we're eagerly anticipating being given that opportunity. We've been praying for you and those closest to you, hoping that you will be blessed and have peace in this endeavor.

We've been happily married for 17 years and it seems God's desire is for us to partner with someone like you to put us on the journey of parenthood. We both have professional careers that not only provide financial security, but also the ability for one of us to always be at home with our child. Please know that you will always be regarded with honor and respect, and that your child will only hear positive comments about you and your decision.

Our entire extended family is as anxious as we are to welcome a new little family member. We have 5 total nieces and nephews (with 1 more on the way!), ranging from ages 1-12, excited about our first child's arrival. Our parents, siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins are equally overjoyed. Both our families are close and we have big gatherings several times a year on each side, as well as enjoying trips together. Some of the activities we enjoy are camping, hiking, snorkeling, beachcombing, fishing, canoeing, attending various sporting events, traveling and photography. We also love hosting cookouts for our friends and their children on our large deck and at Sam's parents' pool just a few minutes away.

In conclusion we would be grateful if your journey and ours were to merge as you share with us this special gift.
Sam & Kim

Dear Expectant Mother, Our hearts go out to you. We know this must be a challenging time and we hope that you are getting the support you need and deserve. We greatly admire you for having the strength to consider adoption for your baby. We understand that making this difficult decision can only come from deep love and the conviction that you would be giving your child the life you want him or her to have. We also understand how important it must be for you to feel that you have found the right adoptive family. We are grateful to you for giving us a chance to tell you about ourselves to see if we might be the family you are looking for.

Teresa is a second grade teacher and Andy is a firefighter. We have been married for over 3 years. We have a loving relationship built on trust, mutual respect and commitment to our families. We promise you we will dedicate our entire lives to your baby. We promise to give your child a happy, secure, safe, nurturing and loving home. We can not pretend to know how difficult this decision is for you. We know you have thought long and hard about adoption. You are probably feeling very scared and worry if you are making the right decision for yourself and the baby's future. We want you to know, if you choose us as parents for your child we will provide everything you want for your baby and more.

We know that "it takes a village" to raise a child. Your child will be welcomed and loved by several eager and loving grandparents, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, and friends. He/she will attend the private school that I teach at. (This is the same school our nephews attend.) He/she will be exposed to a variety of activities and opportunities. Most importantly, we will be open with your child about the adoption.

Our promise and commitment to you and your child is a life filled with love, laughter, hugs and kisses, and all of life's blessings.
Sincerely, Teresa and Andy