Home » Waiting Families » Our Waiting FamiliesBrian & Brooke
We want more than anything in the world to be parents. We continue to look forward to providing a loving, safe and secure home for Kendall and our future addition to our family. We look to be strong role-models to your child, and hope to pass along our unending faith. Our family can provide the love, strength and security for your child, allowing them to reach for their dreams! We provide a home of encouragement, lots of hugs and kisses, as well as faith, hope and love!
Preferred Gender: Either
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| Brian |
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Brooke |
| Job Description |
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| Project Manager for a Global Advertising Company |
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Office Manager for a Hospital Food Service |
| Education |
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| Associates of Arts in Political Science, Certified PMP - Project Management Professional |
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Some College |
| Favorites |
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Actor
Nicholas Cage | | Actor
Brad Pitt | Animal
Sharks | | Animal
Penguin | Food
Pizza (Chicago style only) | | Food
Italian Beef | Fruit
Peaches | | Fruit
Strawberries | Hobby
Collecting Sports Memorabilia | | Hobby
Needlepoint | Sport to Play
Golf | | Sport to Play
Anything with Kendall | | Children |
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| Kendall-8 years old |
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| What it Means to be Parents |
Brian and Kendall Enjoying a Moment Together
We believe that being a parent is one of the most important roles in the world. Being a parent means leading by example. It means giving a child hugs and kisses in times of joy and providing a shoulder to cry on in times of pain. It means giving them every opportunity in the world to succeed, but loving them unconditionally when they fail. The best part of being a parent is the ability to love something more than you love yourself. Some of the things we look forward to the most as our family grows would be our vacations. There is nothing like seeing your child take their first steps into the Magic Kingdom at Disney World or giving Mickey Mouse a hug. But more than that, we are excited to see Kendall step into the role of being a big brother, something he is so excited about. Not only will the child get the love from us, but he/she will also get the support, love and advice from an older brother.
Brooke and Kendall with Our Dogs, Chewie and Bella
First of all, we want the child to embrace their diversity. We want to make sure that they feel special and loved, even though our heritage is not the same. Our main goal is to educated and celebrate their heritage together as a family. We also want to provide an environment where they need to look at the inside of a person first before looking at someone's skin color - including their own. While we do not want to discount their heritage, we would like the child to have a strong heart while being able to proud of who they are.
Because Brian was adopted, he has personal experience to pass along to the child. He was told right from the start that he was adopted. Because his parents shared his adoption story with him (as soon as he could understand), it made accepting the fact that he was adopted a whole lot easier. We both agree that telling the child right away is the best thing to do, so it becomes a part of the child. We believe that waiting to tell a child that they were adopted becomes more and more difficult, and can become stressful to the child. |
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Mission Statement:
American Adoptions, a private adoption agency founded on the belief that lives of children can be bettered through adoption, provides safe adoption services to children, birth parents and adoptive families by educating, supporting and coordinating necessary services for adoptions throughout the United States. For more information on American Adoptions please call 1-800-ADOPTION (236-7846).
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