American Adoptions -- America's Adoption Agency
 Hello! We can only imagine the fears, doubts, and uncertainty you must be experiencing. We hope reading our profile helps you to get to a sense of our love and commitment for each other as well as how we would be as parents. Becoming parents is our greatest wish. No matter what you decide, we wish you and your child a lifetime of love and happiness.  |
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We are so excited to become parents! We have talked about what it would be like for a really long time. For instance, we typically spend Christmas Eve night at Carla's parents' home. We have a tradition of opening gifts very early on Christmas morning. Our niece and nephew always wake us up as soon as it is daylight and rush to the living room to tear into their presents. Every year we talk about what a joy it would be to watch our own children be so excited as they open their gifts! We often go on family weekend trips to the family mountain cabin with our dog, Winnie, where we hike nature trails, go sight seeing, and sit out by the campfire. We also thoroughly enjoy traveling to historic places. We have always talked about how fun it would be to take our children with us and tell them about the significance of these places. We look forward to walking down to the local high school, which is less than 1/2 mile from our house, to take in a high school sporting event. Carla has always dreamed of baking and shopping with a little girl, and Mike has always imagined passing a baseball or football with a little boy. We can't wait to share these experiences with a child!
When we married five years ago, we soon began to talk about starting a family. We thought that it would be easy, like it is for everyone else. But after three years of fertility tests, medical procedures, and heartbreak, we simply looked to God to provide answers. It was at that time that we came to the realization that we were meant to adopt a child. We realized that our goal should be to become parents, not to become pregnant. These realizations compelled us, despite advice from our fertility doctor that we had not reached the end of the fertility road, to pursue adoption with the same vigor and enthusiasm with which we pursued pregnancy. We are so thankful that we are on the path to building a family through adoption.
First and most importantly, we will take every opportunity to educate the child regarding his or her cultural heritage and be extremely supportive of him/her maintaining his or her own cultural identity. We will also seek out positive African American role models with which our child can spend time and from which he or she can learn about his or her culture. While we will encourage our child to make and maintain friendships with people from all races and ethnic backgrounds, we will encourage him or her to participate in activities that will expose him to children who share his ethnic background. Finally, we plan to be open, honest, and suppotive if the child asks us about issues that our racially diverse family might create.
