American Adoptions -- America's Adoption Agency
 We are excited, honored and most of all blessed that you are considering us as the parents for your child. We have dreamed of adopting for over 12 years. We feel so blessed that God gave us our two boys. Through them, we learned to love even deeper. We cannot thank you enough for your strength and love in considering adoption and us as the parents. You will be forever in our hearts. |
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What truly makes us unique is our strong bond we have, especially being a military family. We are together through good times and bad, always being there for each other with love, compassion, understanding and support. As a military family, we are also unique because of the travels we have been able to take to exciting and amazing places. Our children have had wonderful opportunities to see different states and countries. We love sharing these experiences with Alex and Jackson as a family, and helping to broaden their minds and show them the world. We have lived all over the world: Virginia, Sicily (Italy), Puerto Rico, Washington D.C., Florida, Texas and now California. While living in Sicily, we traveled all over Europe, into Greece, Africa and Egypt. We met interesting people and saw amazing places along our travels that broadened our worldly views and developed a broader sense of self. These travels and places we have lived have made us into well-rounded people.
Our close relationships we have with our families also makes us unique. We have wonderful parents that help guide us and teach us about parenthood and adulthood. Our families are very supportive of our lives and always there when we need them. The love and compassion we have in both our families and our very own makes us a very special and unique family.
Through the years, our desire to adopt has grown stronger. Laura's family is very close to a man who was adopted, and we both have witnessed the unconditional love he received from his parents. This was our first introduction to adoption and the beautiful impact it has on a family. We were further influenced by a nurse we met while living in Sicily, Italy, that was adopted. With her, we were able to discuss adoption, how she felt and learn about her adoptive family and birth parents.
When we first began discussing a family in our relationship, we prayed to have two children of our own and to adopt another. Throughout these years, we spent time forming our strong relationship, securing our careers and finances, obtaining higher education and starting our family. We feel that God gave us boys so that when we are blessed with a daughter she would already have built-in guardian angels to protect and love her. Our children have taught us what it means to truly love another person -- unconditionally and deeply. We have learned the only important "thing" in life is our children and being a family. Through the birth of our two sons, we found ourselves even more ready to adopt and share our family and our love with a beautiful little baby.
We have already begun discussing adoption with your child through our children. As we educate our children about adopting their sibling through books and talking, they and we are acquiring a better understanding about adoption. The more we discuss now, the better and more freely we will be able to discuss adoption with your child throughout life.
As our child grows, we will discuss their adoption that fits their level of comprehension through books and family discussions. It will be done with love, understanding and support. We believe discussing adoption is not a one time affair, but on-going as they grow and mature. We are avid readers and will continue to read about adoption as they mature to better understand and prepare for what they are feeling about being adopted and as their thoughts/questions change.
Explaining adoption to her, is explaining her beautiful family that brought her into this world. We will explain, as best as information given, her birth parents and the love and wonderful sacrifice they made. We would like to have pictures of her birthparents to place in her scrapbook. Through this scrapbook we can show her her life with pictures until she can understand words and concepts. She can also add to this scrapbook about her feelings on adoption. We make it a point to scrapbook our children's lives to help them understand their life story, we will be doing the same for your daughter.
