Dear Birth Parent(s),

We know you have probably read this in other letters, but we have to say how much we admire your strength and your commitment to do what is best for your child. We hope you can understand that we share that commitment - to do what is best for your child - with you. Hopefully together we can help make that happen. Whatever you decide, know that our prayers are with you and this new life you are bringing into the world.

Our names are Beverly and Brian. We have been married for 15 years and we have had our share of tough times as well as happy ones. We decided to wait until we were successful before we started trying to have children, but then found that we are not able to conceive. That has not stopped our hopes and conviction to become good parents though. We know that we are in the best place in our lives now to provide a loving and secure home for a child. We both feel that our success is incomplete and the most important thing is still missing from our lives. This is a child. We have a large extended family and have enjoyed helping raise our nieces, nephews, and cousins. Our whole family spends every holiday together, celebrating every Christmas as a time of magic and every birthday as "the best one yet". Every week we gather together at one of our homes for a large family dinner, and we all usually go on at least one vacation a year together. Our whole family cherishes children and we cannot wait to bring a new member into this loving family.

We are not your average suburban couple. We are the couple who seldom fight and spend far more time laughing than not, and most people think we are quite a bit younger than 40. Beverly is a nurse and her patients find as much joy in the choices of her shoes and jewelry as they do with her nurturing care. Beverly's prior career as a salon stylist peaks through and she has become her patients' favorite funky nurse. Brian is a professional artist and worked for the world's largest toy company before starting his own design firm. The children of our friends and family love coming to our house because "we have the best toys", most of which Brian made. Both of us are happy to crawl around on the floor and play along too. Our current house is a three bedroom rancher in a quiet wooded community, and we will be building a larger home once we have added a new member to our family. Brian's mother is a retired school teacher and will be providing daycare for the new child we bring into our life. Brian's office is attached to our home and Beverly's schedule is flexible enough that both can be apart of a child's daycare.

We so look forward to sharing our life with a child. Whether it's decorating for Christmas, carving pumpkins, building snowmen or playing in the sand at the sea shore... we already do these! We would be so grateful if we could share these things and more with your child. We are both very imaginative people, and we hope to be able to show a child the wonders and possibilities the world can offer. We both believe a child should be given the chance to make their own life choices and we also believe we can give a child the education and loving support they need to make a wonderful life. We are also both fairly spiritual, and we truly believe God has put us on this path at this time for this reason.

Because Brian is adopted we both know how important it is that a child understands the love and courage it takes for adoption. We will always make sure that your child knows that you only want the best for them. An adopted child needs to know that they have not lost a birth family, but instead have gained a bigger family. We will make sure that he/she knows everything about you that you want them to know and we will send you pictures and letters so you can see how right your decision was in choosing us. It is your gift of strength and love that you give to your child and us, and this is what a child will learn early on. Thank you for being so gracious and reading our thoughts.

Brian & Beverly