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Ian & Sheila are hopeful adoptive parents from Michigan waiting to adopt a baby.

If you are pregnant and considering placing your child for adoption, please read the following Dear Birthmother Letter.

Introduction Our Dear New Friends,

Hello. We’re Ian and Sheila. Thank you for taking the time to read our letter; we appreciate your willingness to consider us as possible parents for your baby. We can only imagine how difficult this process must be. It takes a lot of courage, love and maturity to put your baby’s interests first through adoption. We hope that once you’ve read our letter and know us a little better, you’ll see that we will treat your child with all of the love, patience, and care that you would.

Why We're Adopting We’re adopting because we are unable to have children on our own. We’re excited to start our family. We’ve prayed long and hard about this decision, and we know that now is the right time, and that somewhere out there is a baby that Heavenly Father intends for our home. Every time we see our friends’ children, it reinforces our desire to have our own. It will be wonderful to be able to experience childhood again, this time from a parent’s perspective. We plan on having at least three children, since we’re both from large families and enjoyed having brothers and sisters. We are now seeking to adopt our first child.

Our Approach to Parenting We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about and discussing how we are going to raise our children, and we have big plans. First of all, we have decided that we will not put our child in daycare. We feel a child should get their values and upbringing from us, their parents, not from instructors and children at a daycare. Once we have a baby, Sheila will cut her work schedule to a few nights a week when Ian can be home with the child. Sheila is a doctor, but motherhood always comes first.

Living and Learning As prospective parents, we’re very excited about the chance to teach our children. We have peace, happiness, and success in our lives and in our home, and we would love to be able to pass on the wisdom, skills, and knowledge we’ve learned to our children. By far, the most important things to teach a child is faith in Jesus Christ. We live our lives according to Gospel teachings, and will be careful to set a good example for our children. We hold family activities every week, and have daily family prayer and scripture reading.

Second only to faith is the importance of teaching character. In order to be truly happy, a child needs to learn honesty, integrity, kindness, respect, and love. We will teach these both actively and by example.

Academic learning is also very important. Between the two of us, we have six college degrees, so you can see that we strongly believe in education. We will teach, coach, and encourage our children academically from a very early age. We plan to read to our children daily, since we believe that this was a key to our own success. We will teach our children that they can become whatever they want to become. In Ian’s childhood home, “I can’t” was a bad word, and the children weren’t allowed to use it. We think this is fine policy for our family as well.

There’s a lot more to learning than academics. We are both outdoors-people and plan on taking our children camping and hiking with us. Nature is fascinating, and we want our children to grow up with a proper appreciation of it. It’s also important for children to be exposed to art and music, both to learn to appreciate it and to be able to express themselves in these mediums. We play several musical instruments with varying degrees of skill ourselves. We will encourage our children to find their talents and develop the ones that interest them. We enjoy sports. Some of our favorites are skating, skiing, sailing, and ping pong. We look forward to doing these with our children.

We also plan to travel as a family, so that our children can gain experience with different cultures, people, and places. We love to travel to experience new places and see our friends and family. In the last year we've been to Atlanta, Dallas, Miami, Key West, the Bahamas, Provo, Niagra Falls, Chicago, Los Angeles, Columbus, and many other places. Our favorite thing to do as we travel is too try to find places, foods, and experiences characteristic of where we're at, such as the CNN tour in Atlanta, the rodeo we saw in Fort Worth, and the Genesee Gorge in upstate New York. We are very much looking forward to sharing these experiences with our children.

We’re ready to be parents, we’re excited about the opportunity, and we think we’ll be really good at it. Now that you know us, we hope that you agree. Please check out the rest of our profile, and if you have any further questions feel free to call or email us. You can contact us at

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We're looking forward to hearing from you.

Fondly,

Ian & Sheila