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Geoff & Gabby are hopeful adoptive parents from Louisiana waiting to adopt a baby.

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

Hi! We are Gabby and Geoff and want you to know that we are very eager to adopt a child to love and cherish with all our hearts and souls, unconditionally, for the rest of our lives. We have already been blessed with one child and look forward to being blessed with another. Since we are already parents, we feel that we have realistic expectations of having a new addition to our family. We certainly have learned that parenting is about expecting the unexpected!

We want to let you know as much as we can about our family to help you decide if we might be a good fit for you and your child. We are grateful to you for “clicking” on us to see what we have to offer. It was not easy to put a profile together- how do we show you our love, spirit, and values on the web? How do we convey our attitudes about childrearing? We have so much to give a child, the most important being a healthy happy home that is filled with unconditional love, warmth and nurturing. We believe that ALL children are miracles and should be treated as such! We value a strong family where communication is open and children can express themselves. We also believe that education is important and are fortunate to be able to provide a strong, well rounded education. Not only can we provide this through the best schools, but also through life experiences. We feel that traveling, projects at home, and extra curricular activities all help to develop a child’s interests and talents. Gabby is a full-time mom and Geoff has a flexible schedule, so we have the luxury of time and attention to shower our family with.

As hard as it was to put this profile together, we also realize that your task of looking through all them is a million times harder. We cannot begin to imagine how hard and scary this is for you and we hope that you will find what it is you are looking for in the family you choose to raise your child. We have the deepest respect and admiration for you and the difficult decision you are making for the love of your child. It is important to us that the child we adopt always know this strength, courage, and overwhelming love that it took for him or her to be a part of our family. We can promise you that your child will always know how much you, his or her mother, loves him/her and how much you sacrificed for that love. We know that your child will always carry a special love for you inside his or her heart that we could never replace and we will always respect that love. We know that we can love more than one child, so we know a child can love more than one set of parents.

Who we are . . .

We met in graduate school while we were both getting our master’s degrees in social work eleven years ago. When we meet, Geoff had just returned from volunteering at a hospital for disabled children in Guatemala for six months and had learned Spanish. Gabby had just finished an internship counseling young children in a program called Forever Families. Our interest in children and Spanish culture was what initially drew us to each other. After that, it was our ability to have fun together and get into deep conversations about everything under the sun that made us fall in love.

After a couple of years of dating and meeting everyone in each other’s family (which included a trip to South America to meet Gabby’s extended family), Geoff proposed. We were married a year later with all our friends and family surrounding us. It was such an emotional time for us. We felt so fortunate to have found the person we wanted to share our life with. Everything was so perfect and we wondered how life could possibly be better than this.

About a year after our wedding, we learned that life could get better with the arrival of our son, Jake. As we both had a lot of experience being with children, we thought we were so prepared. However, nothing could have prepared us for the unbelievable joy and love that grows deeper as we continue to discover what this little person is all about and the friendship and bond that is formed between us while we are raising him.

We always knew we wanted more than one child. Both of us come from a family of four children and grew up with a lot of laughter and noise. We continue to have close relationships with our extended families and see them frequently, especially with Gabby’s parents and sister’s family that both live within a mile from us. Our siblings have growing families, so your child would have cousins that are older, about the same age, and eventually younger. We feel so fortunate to have such close relationships with our extended family and feel this is a great benefit for the children.

About Gabby . . . (by Geoff) Gabriela is a beautiful, smart, passionate and caring person. What first attracted me was her devotion to helping others, especially children. Whether babysitting or providing professional counseling as a social worker, I have also thought that Gabby was born to help kids. As I got to know Gabby, I was also taken with her devotion to her family. Her family is large and despite the fact that so many of her relatives live in South America she is able to maintain very strong and close relationships with them.

Gabby is an incredible homemaker in the truest sense of the word. She doesn’t just work to keep a home but instead actually works to build it from the ground up. Whether renovating a room, building furniture, painting inside or out, or just rigging up some unique invention to make our home more special and comfortable, she simply prefers to do it herself. Jake, our son, is the beneficiary of this skill and determination as he now knows how to garden (value those worms!), paint a wall and start a small construction project. As her strengths are my weaknesses, I have great admiration for her abilities.

Gabby loves to go for long walks at a beautiful park less than a mile from our home. The park has many lakes with ducks and birds to feed, which she is eager to show to our future child. Up until the time Jake started school, he used to enjoy these walks as well in the cozy comfort of his stroller. Jake’s stroller was a mobile party complete with music tapes, books, and small toys to keep him occupied and out in the fresh air. Now when Jake goes with Gabby on the weekends, he rides his “big boy” bicycle with no training wheels!

Over the years Gabby continues to amaze me in so many different ways. Perhaps the most incredible is how she thrives as a mother. To see Jake and Gabby together is a true joy. Jake loves all of the attention he receives as they spend time together doing special projects, learning songs, or goofing around (Gabby loves to be goofy!). To see Gabby with Jake is to see her glow with love and pride. I know that this joy and happiness will only increase with another child.

About Geoff . . . (by Gabby)

There are so many amazing things about Geoff that it is hard to know where to start! Geoff is a professor at a local university which means he is home every night for playtime, dinner time, bath time and bedtime. I often tell him that he has a lot of “mom” in him because he is such a nurturer and is so “hands on” at home. He has the ability to explain even the most complicated things with ease and is a very patient teacher, which is good because I need a lot of help with my computer and getting music and pictures on it (I shouldn’t say “help” since he actually just does it for me!). He shows interest and concern about things that may be on my mind and is accepting of my feelings whether they are rational or not. When they are irrational, I can always count on him to make a joke about it to cheer me up and make me laugh at myself!

Since I have known him, Geoff has always been so good with children. I don’t know whether it is his warmth, patience, or naturally friendly demeanor, but children have always been attracted to him. It sometimes seems as though babies and young children have a sixth sense about people and give only genuinely open hearted people their trust. When I see a child reach for him, it fills me up with pride to know that my husband has an extra-special quality about him that makes him worthy of a baby or young child’s trust.

As a husband and father, Geoff really shines. He is one of those people who automatically thinks ahead about our family’s needs, like making sure we have reservations for our vacation three months ahead of time so that we don’t miss out on a beach trip. He makes sure our needs are taken care of before his own, whether it is making sure that we are spending/saving wisely or thinking about where to park his car so that he can play basketball in the driveway with Jake and that I can easily get my car out in the morning to get Jake to school on time. His thoughtfulness was one of the main things that attracted me to him when we first met and he is just as thoughtful now as he was then, maybe even more so.

About Jake . . . We never knew how much we would love being parents until Jake came into our lives. He made us parents, and on Gabby’s side, made grandparents and aunts and uncles. He started a new chapter in our lives that is filled with overwhelming love and joy.

Jake is a very happy, energetic and caring little boy. He loves to read, play pretend games, play on his play equipment outside, and play sports (in the yard with Geoff). He has been making beautiful pictures in the play room to hang up so that “the new baby will be happy and feel comfortable here with children’s artwork since the baby is a child.” When we first told him about our plans to adopt, his immediate response was, “Okay, but I want real responsibility. I can get the baby a milk bottle and that means filling up the bottle with milk and feeding it to the baby.” He has such a big heart and cannot wait for a baby brother or sister to share lots of hugs and kisses with.

Jake has been asking for a sibling for quite some time now, but understands that he will be a big brother when the time is just right. He has been telling everyone at school that “he” is adopting a baby and his friends have given him all sorts of advice. One friend warned him about sisters and how much trouble they are, while another thought it may be fun to adopt a twin brother (a little too late for Jake to be a twin now!). Jake says either a baby brother or sister would be great. He is so eager to find out which it will be (and so are we)! All of our family, friends, and neighbors are also eager to meet Jake’s future sibling, some even telling us how much they plan to spoil him or her!

Where we live . . . We have just finished renovating our home which was built in the early 1900’s We created an open floor plan with no formal rooms to keep it kid friendly, which is perfect for us because we are very informal. We are lucky because we have enough space in the house that we were able to create a large playroom area that has fun things to do for kids of all ages. The windows and doors even have shatter resistant glass so that we can play ball inside! Whether as a family or in the company of friends, we really enjoy hanging out at home.

Our home is in a small city but we live in a suburban neighborhood filled with families with young children. There is always someone walking past our house, usually with a stroller and/or a child on a bicycle and a dog or two in tow. We feel very fortunate to have been able to buy a house in our neighborhood as they do not become available for sale very often. Most families have been here for a long time, some even raising their children in the same homes they grew up in themselves.

Our city is very unique in that if really feels like a town but has many of the opportunities of a larger community. Like a big city, it is filled with so many places to go and explore on family outings. To name a few, we have an amazing zoo, a spectacular aquarium, a fun filled children’s museum and professional sports teams to cheer for. But it is also like a town in the sense that we have several large and beautiful parks, one of which is just a mile from our home, where we always run into people we know. We love this area with its small town feel but with the added perks of having lots of fun things to do, especially for children and families!


Gabby and Geoff
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