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 Norman & Jennifer - Our Message |
Dear Birthparent(s),
We are eternally grateful for birthparents like you who consider adoption as a plan for their child. We know this is a very difficult decision and admire your strength and courage. We pray that you will feel your Heavenly Father's guidance as you choose a family to share your child with.
We absolutely love and admire our son Jeremy's birthmother more than we ever thought possible. We pray for her daily and tell Jeremy all the time how much she loves him. We love exchanging letters and pictures with her. We even have a picture of her that we display in our living room right next to our family picture. We enjoy sending keepsakes to her and telling her about how "our" little boy is growing and learning.
We love Jeremy with all our hearts and can't imagine loving him any more if he were our biological child. We know that he has siblings waiting to join our family, and we can't wait to meet them! We have many desires for our family. First and foremost, we want our children to know their Heavenly Father, His plan, and His love for each of them, individually. Second, we want each of our children to know about their birthparents and the incredible sacrifice they made. We love having the opportunity to share letters and pictures so our children can learn about their birthfamily's personalities in the family's own words. As Jeremy grows and begins to ask questions about his heritage, we plan to be open with him. We are grateful to have plenty of information to share with him. We plan to follow the same pattern with all of our children, sharing with each one as much information as we have.
Other hopes and dreams for our family are numerous. Education is important to us, so we plan to provide all the opportunities that we can for their education during their youth. We plan to be involved in our children's schooling so they have a positive and fun experience, and grow up with a love of learning. We also plan to encourage them to attend college and develop habits for continued education throughout their lives.
We want to encourage a love of music in our family. Even if our children choose not to play an instrument, we feel it is important for them to learn to read music and appreciate the positive effect it can have on them.
We feel strongly that hobbies and skills should not be gender specific. So, we plan to teach both our boys and girls skills in sewing, cooking, auto maintenance and yard work, among other things.
In addition to learning valuable skills to help them through life, we want our children to have a fun childhood. We want to read bedtime stories, play hide-n-seek, and ride bikes together. We plan to have family nights, eat lunch with Dad at work now and then, and have yearly family vacations. We want their childhood to be full of fun family memories.
As a family, we love to take vacations each year. Many of the trips are small camping trips nearby, but we also have taken Jeremy to see his grandparents in Alaska, and to Arizona for a NASCAR race. Yearly vacations are a cherished memory for both of us, and we want our children to share that childhood experience.
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