Waiting Families
Rich, Denise, and Luke
Dear Birth Parent,
We thank you for taking the time to read our letter and take our family into consideration. We appreciate the sacrifice you are making for your child. Your love for this baby is evident to us in the decision you have made. We have been happily married for eleven years and have one biological son, Luke, who is five years old. We lost a baby to miscarriage several years ago and have been unable to conceive again.
We have both been teaching public school for twelve years. Rich teaches high school math and Denise teaches kindergarten. We love helping children learn and watching them succeed. We also enjoy the freedom to spend holidays and summers as a family. Luke enjoys attending high school football games and other sporting events with us. As a family, we also enjoy trips to the park, the zoo, local festivals and just relaxing around the house.
We have a comfortable house in a central Virginia suburb. This provides us many opportunities to visit both the beach and the mountains. There are many family and cultural events in our area that we enjoy attending together. We are also fortunate to have grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins living in our town, with whom we enjoy frequent family get togethers. Our local schools offer a diverse cultural environment and maintain strong academic standards.
Life at home is active. We play games, spend time in our backyard, and play with our pets (Tessa, our dog, and Cookie, our bunny). Denise’s favorite activity is cuddling up with Luke to read a book, and Rich enjoys playing board and card games with him. Our house can become cluttered with the effects of daily life, as we choose to focus on each other and our time together. Luke is a happy, outgoing child. He loves playing soccer and sings in the children’s choir at our church. He looks forward to being a big brother and reading to his new baby brother or sister. He wants to teach him or her to play games as well. He prays each night for God to send us a baby.
We are members of a Lutheran church and attend regularly. We have participated in such activities as college mentoring, working in the nursery, Wednesday night fellowship , and teaching Bible School. Our goal for our children is to be happy. We want them to pursue activities and eventually careers that they enjoy. We will work hard to provide them with the opportunities and schooling they need to accomplish this
. We will love our adopted child and nurture him or her as we do our biological son. We will discuss the adoption openly and share as much information about you, the birth parent, as you desire. We are keeping a scrapbook of the whole adoption process that we look forward to sharing with our children as they grow and have questions. We have longed to add to our family for some time and are very excited about this adoption. We look forward to meeting you soon!
Sincerely, Rich, Denise, and Luke