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This is sure to be a stressful time for you as you make decisions about your baby's future. An adoption plan takes a tremendous amount of love and courage. We hope you know how special we think you are. Through adoption you are giving adoptive parents something no one else could: an opportunity to express our love through children. Your gift is rare, immense, and speaks volumes about you and how much you love your baby. You are absolutely incredible! We cherish the possibility of meeting you. Before then we'll tell you some things you may want to know about us. We are Bob and Kate. After six fantastic years of marriage we still consider ourselves the luckiest people in the world to be a couple. Some things we adore most about one another... Bob says about Kate: I wanted to marry Kate the day I met her. To this day she radiates a sense of deep-rooted joy and optimism. She is loving, generous, funny, insightful, and does everything she can to nurture our family. Her compassion, understanding and patience make her a wonderful wife, mother and best friend. She enjoys great satisfaction in spending time with our son and providing him with opportunities to play with his friends and participate in swimming and soccer. Always willing to put family first, she works part-time as a geriatric nurse practitioner. She enjoys photography, piano, cooking Thai and Indian cuisine, and keeping in touch with friends and relatives. But mostly she cherishes our time together as a family. Her Irish wit charms and brightens our home everyday, reminding me of how truly lucky we are to have her as our wife and mother. Kate says about Bob: Bob is the most charming and honest person I know. He is an extremely caring, responsible husband and father. We are well protected and provided for by him. In addition to spending time together as a family he enjoys reading military history and classical music. He also enjoys the outdoors, especially camping and hiking. Bob is a wonderful father. He and our son spend hours wrestling, reading, building dinosaurs, boxing, shooting baskets, and working on the computer. As a college instructor he is a natural educator and scientist, and, as such, nurtures a special father-son bond. Your baby will be wholeheartedly welcomed into our family by Robert. He is our 5 year-old son who is very excited to be a big brother. He is a compassionate child who likes to help-out his friends. Whether it's teaching him how to ride a bike, consoling hurt feelings, pretending to be velociraptors, or just having a perfectly silly moment, Robert has given us so many reasons to say "You are wonderful... I am so proud of you... I love you". The joy of this unconditional love draws us to always want young children in our lives.
We will provide your baby with a safe, fun- filled home. Our suburban home is north of St. Paul and has a large, private backyard. The neighborhood is close to two playgrounds and an elementary school. There are lots of young children to play with. Prince, our very gentle collie, is a neighborhood favorite. We enjoy traveling and being outdoors. Before parenthood we took a couple of great camping trips, one to Canada and another to the Pacific Northwest. Walking beaches along the Pacific Ocean during sunset is an awesome experience we want to relive with our children. We take at least one vacation trip each summer and several weekend trips during the school year. We love to "get away" by exploring small Minnesota towns and appreciating what a great place Minnesota is to raise a family. Traveling also provides us opportunity to see our families. We visit Bob's family in Arizona each January, hike the Sonoran Desert, and enjoy the beautiful Southwest. Several times a year we drive to South Dakota to visit Kate's family too, maybe to share in a holiday dinner or relax on a boat ride. Our families are an important source of love and everyone from grandparents to our 17 cousins is anxiously awaiting our newest family member's arrival. We are committed to providing our children with solid educational foundations. We were both fortunate to complete graduate school and want our children to have similar opportunities. As a family we prioritize our time and resources to assure this can happen. Our most celebrated teacher is Jesus Christ and we want our children to know and live His teachings as we do. Bob was raised Lutheran, Kate Catholic, and Robert attends a Lutheran preschool. Friends who have been touched by adoption have helped us realize it is a wonderful way to build our family. We believe that adoption is a great gift. Of the many reasons we have chosen open adoption, the most important is knowing our child will be born of someone so loving as you.
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Dear BirthParent:
We have always wanted to have children. Our dream came true upon Robert's precious arrival, but because of secondary infertility, we were unable to conceive again. Experiencing the joy of parenthood has made us even more certain of our desire for parenting a second child. Adoption is an obvious choice for us. We love being parents!!!
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