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Dear Birth Parent(s),
Thank you so much for taking time to get to know us better and see who we are and what we enjoy. I am sure that while looking at these books all types of emotions and feelings surface. We respect you for considering adoption. We believe that you are contemplating a very hopeful decision. You must be an amazingly strong, sure, unselfish person. We will make sure this child knows that.
We have been married for 10 years. We met through mutual friends at camp in Colorado. We enjoy having friends over for meals, biking, hiking, gardening and being involved in our community and church. Children have always been a part of our lives through family, neighbors, foster care, jobs, and babysitting. When we got married we knew we wanted to foster, adopt, and have biological children. While waiting to adopt Anna got pregnant. We followed through with the adoption and brought Sam into our family in May, 2007. Three months later Anna gave birth to Martha in September, 2007. Our family has been well prepared for adoption due to Anna’s 3 brothers having been adopted. In addition we have 2 nephews and 1 niece, as well as nearly a dozen cousins, who were adopted into our extended family. We are thankful for the support of family and friends who have embraced our diverse and unique family. Now that our children are a little older and are in preschool two mornings a week, things have settled down a bit. We are now ready to bring another child into our family through adoption.
Parenting stretches us and challenges us, yet offers us much joy and hope. We know each child is unique, with different needs, gifts and emotions. We parent accordingly with consistency and love. We want our children to grow up to be self confident, kind, compassionate and hopeful towards all people. We hope to model this in our parenting and in our relationships. We are willing to ask for advice from our church community and friends and family for we know we need it. Sam and Martha have a community of people that surrounds them and cares for them. A child cannot have too many people that love them. For this reason and others, we have kept in contact with Sam’s birth mother through phone calls and letters and pictures. We would be open to having a relationship with you also.
Sam and Martha are excited to have a sibling. They talk about what they will teach and show him/her. We have arranged our lives so that Anna can be home with the children daily and because Ben has a business based out of our home, the kids can see him often as well. We enjoy being with our children, they make us laugh and see things new. We hope this book gives you a glimpse into our lives; who we are as a family and individuals, how we parent, what we like to do, and who our friends and families are. Thank you for taking time to look at this. May you feel peace and assurance with your decision.
Sincerely, Ben, Anna, Sam and Martha |
