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Adam & Jennifer 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 Birthparent, Thank you so much for taking the time to look at our album and learn about us. We have so much respect and awe for your decision to choose adoption, and we can only imagine how difficult your next decisions may be.

Our names are Adam and Jen. We met when we were young, but from early on we knew that our future would be together. We have been together for a total of eleven years and have been married for over six years, and we are even more in love with each other now than when we first met. After struggling through infertility and growing together as a couple, we are so happy to move forward in our path toward building a family. From the beginning of our marriage we knew that we would adopt some day, and we are so excited to share our love with a child.

Our Home and Marriage Our home is on the north side of Chicago on a quiet street full of beautiful old trees and near several parks and Lake Michigan in a neighborhood full of children and families. We live close to downtown Chicago and enjoy visiting the museums and other sites, but we also appreciate time spent at home with our dog, Cleo, entertaining friends or just relaxing on the couch. Adam loves to cook, while Jen enjoys knitting and has made adorable blankets and booties for our three nieces and nephews.

Our marriage is built on trust and communication. We are best friends and partners in every sense of the word and have enormous respect for one another. Our family is the most important thing in our lives.

Our Thoughts On Each Other Adam on Jen…Jen is one of the most amazing people I know. She is just as caring as she is brilliant. I respect her so much because of the effort she makes to help those around her. She loves to laugh and I love nothing more than to hear her giggle. For as long as we have been together, Jen has wanted to be a mother - to love, teach, guide, support and help our child grow into an incredible person. Jen will make an amazing mother, because of her patience, intelligence and sense of humor. When I see her with our niece and nephews, playing with trains and trucks or in the sand at the beach, it makes me happy to know what a great mother she will be.

Jen on Adam…Adam is the most caring man I have ever met. He is so charismatic and everyone he meets is drawn to him immediately. Adam is the most loyal friend and will do anything for the people he cares about, and I admire him tremendously. He also has a really silly sense of humor and makes me laugh constantly. From the very beginning of our relationship, I knew that Adam would make the most incredible father and it was one of the reasons I wanted to share my life with him. Adam is completely uninhibited around children and is always able to make them smile. He is incredibly patient, and I can't wait to watch him teach our child everything from how to play baseball to how to be a kind and caring person like himself.

Our Hopes For A Child Together…we have always looked forward to being parents. We are so excited to take our child to see the ivy at Wrigley, where they will learn all about baseball from Adam. We imagine lots of quiet walks in our neighborhood and trips to Jen’s favorite ice cream store. We look forward to sharing with our child our belief in the importance of education and to helping them discover their own passions and interests. We can’t wait to introduce our child to some of our favorite things, including Chicago hot dogs, the Chicago aquarium, and Dr. Seuss.

Most importantly, we can't wait to introduce our child to our incredibly loving families, who are so excited to share in the growth of our family. Adam's relatives are spread out in the northern suburbs of Chicago, in central Florida (forty-five minutes from Orlando), and in New York City, while Jen's relatives live in Atlanta. We visit with our families several times a year, and we keep in touch almost daily through phone and email in between visits. Our families love to visit us in Chicago and enjoy everything the city has to offer, and we love to travel to see our families, especially during the winter when the weather is warm where they live. We get together often with Adam's relatives who live in Chicago for birthdays, holidays and any other reason.

Both of us believe strongly in our responsibility to give back to others in our communities. Through her job, Jen helps to support people who have been persecuted by foreign governments and have fled to the United States for safety. She also volunteers with other organizations in Chicago providing community service. Adam has been very involved in our neighborhood organization, volunteering to improve the area and bring our neighbors together into a community. We both graduated from college and then went to law school to pursue our interests in history and government and our desire to help others.

We would be thrilled to adopt a child of any background, because we feel strongly that our child’s physical characteristics, including race, will not determine our love for our child. We know that we may face challenges in raising a child of a different race, but we look forward to the opportunity to teach our child about their cultural heritage together as a bonding experience. We will raise our child in a diverse community and surround ourselves with other trans-racial families. We believe that ensuring that our child has a strong racial and cultural identity will provide our child with self-confidence and a clear personal identity and that our child and our family will be stronger for the experience.

We have always considered ourselves lucky to have found each other when we were young and grateful for the life and home we have built together, but our lives are incomplete without the family we have always dreamed of. We would be honored to have you in our lives if you choose, and we will always teach our child about your enormous love and about the amazing decision you made for your child's future. Our arms and hearts are open wide as we wait to meet our child. We can't wait to share our love and to help our child realize his or her dreams.

Thanks again for taking the time to read about us. We love nothing more than to make each other laugh. We would be so thrilled to have the chance to share that laughter with a child. Please Send us a message or contact us toll-free at 877-566-5224.

We wish you the best of luck in all of your decisions.

Love,

Jen and Adam