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Steven & Kathleen are hopeful adoptive parents from Illinois waiting to adopt a baby.

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

Dear Birthmother Thank you for giving us this time and opportunity to share a part of our lives with you. We would like to start by saying that we respect you very much for making the choice of adoption and considering us as adoptive parents. We hope that you find faith and trust within us for becoming the adoptive parent of your unborn child and that our paths have come together for a reason.

Our marriage has stayed strong and we have been hopeful and positive even though we have experienced many unsuccessful attempt of conceiving and having a baby of our own. We now believe that adoption is God’s plan for us. Out healthy marriage bond is based on the fact that we realize that our marriage can remain positive and stable through all of life’s challenges. Finally, we feel that adoption would be a wonderful experience and that parenting a child who truly needs us would make our lives complete. We both have so much love to give.

About us Before we tell you about us as individuals, as a whole we have been together for almost five years. Furthermore, we have been married three of those years. Besides a physical attraction for one another, the essentials and commonalities that brought us together were our love of family, work, humor, hobbies, life and career goals, and finally, obstacles that we have been successful in overcoming together. We were friends and colleagues at work prior to dating. It was a great way to start a relationship since we were friends first. Our marriage is based on love, honesty and respect.

We are both outgoing and friendly which is necessary when one is in sales consulting as we both are. We both work in the legal publishing field.

Steve is a college graduate with an MBA in Business Administration. He comes from an upper middle class family who resides in lake Forest, Illinois. Both his parents are originally from the Ukraine and Steve is very proud of his father who came to American penniless and built a very successful business from the ground up. In this case, he was fortunate enough to have two parents that spent quite a bit of time with him. While his Mom introduced him to a world with an appreciation of art, literature, theater, fashion and gourmet food, Dad had him playing sports by the time he was seven. Moreover, he was traveling the world by the time he was eleven having frequented such places as Austria and Morocco by the time he was thirteen. Much of this was a result of him playing competitive tennis all the way through college. Today, he is a big health buff. He works out daily, (biking mostly) and watches his diet closely. He likes to read (up to three books at a time) and has quite a few amazing collections (comic books, antiques, military miniatures, and art) Finally, Steve is an only child. He would love nothing more to carry on his legacy through having a child of his own. We are both very close with Steve’s parents and they are overjoyed at the thought of becoming grandparents and fully support our choice of adoption. Steve is thoughtful, outgoing and friendly. He would love to read books to his child as his parents did with him. Also, he would like to introduce music and sports to his child so that they are well-rounded. Also, he would love to help with daily homework assignments so that our children can get a good education and go on to college some day.

Kathy is full of energy, loves life and has the kindest soul. She is always in perpetual motion in that she is a very successful sales executive who manages to balance a full day of work with household activities as well as her daily and weekly interests and hobbies. She is a graduate from Northern Illinois University and was involved then as she is now. Taking a full course load of business administration studies, a member of Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority and a Silverette! (cheerleader for the NIU Huskies). She comes from a very large Irish/German family (her dad has 10 brothers and sisters). Because of the extended family, there are dozens of nieces, nephews, cousins, etc. Each of the brother/sisters owns a lake house in Michigan on the same block! We often go there during the summer months so that the family can get together for picnics, boating, sitting on the beach and enjoying each other’s kids. We also have a family reunion around the holidays where Santa makes a visit to all of the good little boys and girls. We can’t wait for the day to put our little one on Santa’s lap so he/she can tell what they want for Christmas!

Kathy’s mother came from a more modest background with one sister. Both Kathy’s grandparents are from Germany. Although they are no longer living, they both played a very influential role in her upbringing. Her immediate family grew up in the southwest suburbs of Chicago and includes an older adopted brother and an older sister, a brother in law and a niece and nephew.

Kathy, unfortunately had to grow up a little bit faster than that of some twenty-somethings as her mom passed away from a terrible bout with cancer when she was finalizing her last year in college. This tragic loss has only made Kathy a stronger person as she has become the standard bearer amongst all of her siblings with a strong resolve for moving on in life with her career and personal goals. She is very close with her family, especially her older sister and niece. Her father, Jack remarried 17 years ago and Kathy inherited two stepsisters and two brother in laws. They both have small children. Brock and Braden are three years old and Mattie just turned one. They would love to have another little cousin to make the family complete. Kathy’s hobbies are gardening, cooking, running and going to the movies. She also practices yoga and likes to golf (when she can).

Kathy plans to be a stay at home mother and make sure that our child get complete care and attention. Since she has so much love to give, she believes that sharing her heart, her creativity, sense of humor and love for life would make her a wonderful mother.

Finally, we live in a very family oriented part of the city, a little community called Roscoe Village. Couples here are mostly successful, college graduated professional who have a strong sense of community and togetherness. When you see people walking down the street, as they do often in the city, it is mostly Mom’s with a baby stroller and dog in tow. The town is fully of happenings such as street festivals, children’s activities and several shops and restaurants. The local schools are some of the best that the city of Chicago has to offer. We are also members of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church and Vlodymry and Olah Ukrainian church. We plan to raise our family under the Catholic faith, while introducing some of the Ukrainian heritage mixed with the ethnic background of our adopted child.

Both of us are very down to earth and grounded. I would say that even though we have many friends, we are mostly homebodies who enjoy the intimate and quieter pleasures of life such as movies, a board game or a dinner on our rooftop garden. We are both early risers who enjoy making the most of the day while relaxing in the evening. We have often daydreamed about a day when we can complete our family and spend one of those days together with our child – going to the zoo, the playground, a playgroup a cousin’s house or even a stroll down the street with our baby carriage.


Warmly,

Steve & Kathy