Dear Birth Parent(s),

Even though we have never met each other we find ourselves thinking about the same thing, a baby. You are facing the decision of how to best plan for your baby's future and we are thinking of our family's future that hopefully includes a new baby.

We have been married for 18 years and parents to a wonderful little boy for 9 years. With Ethan older now we feel that we are more able to devote the time that a baby requires. We both love kids and feel the desire to have another child in our home. We learned so many things when Ethan was a baby that will better prepare us for another. Thinking about all the special moments that you have with a baby makes us very excited. There is no mistaking the fact that we feel very blessed to have our son but would truly feel honored to be the parents of another child. We have many great memories together and would love to make many more that include another child.

Since we have chosen to adopt a biracial child we want you to know that we believe who a person is comes from inside and is not determined by skin color. We feel that loving a biracial child will be no different than loving a child who is not. Eugene has worked with, Janice has taught, and Ethan is best friends with people who are either African American or biracial. We do not base our opinions of other people on anything other than the person's values and character. Our family and our community are very accepting of people with different ethnic backgrounds. We have many biracial children in our schools and some in our church. Everyone in our community is loved and accepted as equals.

We are a very simple family who lives in a small town. We enjoy doing everyday things together as a family. We also like to take summer vacations and visit new places. We like spending time outside in the yard and being at the ballpark watching our son play baseball. We also like hanging out at the house with our little dogs.

Even though our town is small we love living here. It is a quiet place to live and there are really friendly and loving people who share our town. Our home is older but very updated and comfortable. The rooms are spacious and get lots of natural light. We have a large front porch with a porch swing. Our property covers one-fourth of a city block and we have lots of nice yard for playing.

Janice teaches school right across the street from our house. She is off work fairly early in the afternoon and has summers free to spend with our family. Eugene's work as a maintenance supervisor for the school only takes him a few blocks away. He drives a school bus also but is still home before evening. Both of our jobs will allow us to be off if our family needs us, which is a good thing with children at home.

We are a hardworking family with strong moral values. We believe that teaching a child to have the skills to be successful in life is a major role as parents. We will be good role models and will give endless love, support, devotion, and encouragement. We will provide a good education and training in a way that is most positive and beneficial.

Children are a gift from God and adoption is such an amazing and special gift. We will be open and honest with your child from a very early age about his adoption and how special it is to be loved so much by two families. We want him to know that you loved him so much that you made a very hard decision about his future and that you want him to be happy. We will teach him that all families are unique and special. We want him to feel comfortable and proud of who he is instead of embarrassed. Having an adopted older brother who is comfortable with his adoption will also be beneficial. If you chose us to parent your child we will send pictures and letters, if you would like, so that you feel comfortable with your decision. We thank you for reading our letter and admire your courage in this most difficult decision.

We believe that God's plan for our family is to adopt another child. We are very excited and can't wait to hold and love a new baby. We pray that if it be God's will he will lead us to the right birthmother. If you are that birthmother, we pray for your and the baby's health and safety. If we are chosen we will be forever thankful.

With All Respect,

Eugene & Janice