Kevin & Catherine

Place to Vacation
Family lake cabin & National Parks
Family lake cabin & Rocky Mountains

Dear Birth Parent(s), 

We imagine that this is a very difficult and confusing time for you. Our journey to this point has not been easy either. We deeply respect and appreciate your decision to make an adoption plan, and to consider us as adoptive parents. We hope this letter will help you get to know us better, and to explain our reasons for wanting to adopt a child.

We got married in the year 2000, and shortly after tried to start a family. Six years, several miscarriages, and many fertility treatments later, our daughter, Nora, was born. She is a blessing and gives us great joy as we watch her discover the world. We tried again to conceive a child, but have been unsuccessful. The challenges we have faced have been painful, but have also strengthened our resolve to have the larger family we always wanted. Among our belongings is a family sized tent with room for four, our yard has two Little Tikes slides, and attached to Catherine's bike is a trailer with room for two children. In the past year, we bought a larger vehicle with room for an extra car seat next to our daughter's. Our home has a spare bedroom waiting to be painted blue, pink, green or yellow for a new baby. We would like our family to grow through adoption.

Adoption for us means the opportunity for Nora to have a brother or sister, and for us to watch a child grow, learn, develop and to influence that process. Adoption means the daily experiences of family meals together, time spent working on homework, walking the dog, and going to the park with friends and family. It involves hikes inthe State Forest, trips to the zoo, bike rides on the path near our home. It includes weekend rituals like Catherine making waffles and Kevin grilling burgers, as well as holiday traditions like Catherine baking her Grandmother's sugar cookies, and Kevin preparing to roast the Thanksgiving turkey. It is a week at the lake in Northern Wisconsin with each of our families. We realize life will also continue to have challenges and struggles, but above all adoption means facing these as a family as well.

Our home is in a safe, suburban neighborhood with close access to good schools, medical care, shopping and fun things to do. There are many children in the neighborhood and they are regularly seen outside playing on swing sets, and riding bikes. Our home is a three bedroom, ranch style with a nice yard for playing and gardening. We have an 8-year-old, black Labrador-mix dog who loves to run and have a tennis ball thrown for her. Our church is less than a mile from us and we are active members. Catherine works for the local school district four days per week during the school year with summers and holidays off. Kevin's commute is 25 minutes, and he doesn't work weekends or holidays. There's a wonderful woman who lives only a few miles away and she has cared for our daughter for the past 2 years.

Both of our families are excited for us to expand our family through adoption. Kevin has an aunt and uncle that were adopted. Catherine has a good friend who was adopted, and we have friends who have adopted children from the U.S. and other countries. We have received constant support from both of our families in our quest to have children. Catherine's mother makes homemade quilts for each of her grandchildren and is eager to start on the next one.

Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and look at our photo album. In the event that you choose us to parent your child, please know that we will treasure and raise him or her like our own. We will always honor and respect you and your role in our child's life. We are excited to share information with you as the child grows, through email, letters, photos and videos, at a level you are comfortable with. Please take care.

Sincerely,

Kevin & Catherine