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Jeff & Jen 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 We respect your courage, determination, and love that you have shown for your child by choosing an adoption plan. Your respect for the life inside of you makes you truly special. Our wish is to share in developing those same characteristics of love, courage and determination in your child. We are a small family that laughs, plays and enjoys each day to its fullest. We are ready and anxious to welcome a new baby into our hearts. Please know that adopting a child into our family will give us great joy and that you will always be an important and respected part of our child's life. Our hope is that we can get to know you better but first here's a little peek of who we are.

Why Adoption?
We want to grow our family with another child and cannot physically have any more children. With the miracle of modern medicine, we welcomed our son into the world in 2003. Whether we play Candy Land, play Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, build a sand castle on the beach, make snow forts in the winter or read a book together, we enjoy participating as an active part of his life. Our next child will only enhance our family by sharing and growing into the unique person that he or she is meant to become. We want to share our time, talents and resources with another child.

About Us Andy, in all of his four years, loves trains, cars, trucks - anything with wheels. Curious and always trying to figure out how things work, Andy learns by experiencing the world around him. Andy shares his comic attitude with friends and family by laughing and joking; however, new social situations bring about a little shyness. He enjoys playing and learning with the other kids at preschool while Mom and Dad are working. He also displays a gentle and kind spirit with the babies and small toddlers. When he goes up to our friends' baby and wants to show affection, he will gently pet her head and say, "It's ok little Maddy." He often looks out for and tries to protect the smaller kids when some of the older kids get a little too rambunctious. He loves to recite all the letters, numbers to 100, Thomas the Tank Engine characters, sing songs, and display the favorite artwork of the day. He even is beginning to read three letter words and a few beginning to read books.

After a long winter we can't wait to take that first dip in the cool water of the river, watch that first pink/orange/blue sunset from the boat and roast weenies and burgers over the open fire at the cabin. Most summer weekends include water skiing, boating, fishing, lounging on the beach, and camping at the family cabin. Then after your swimsuit is about to fall apart and your hat faded from the sun, winter blasts in and brings the thrill of skiing down the mountain and brushing the snow out of your face after a good snowball fight or sledding. We often get together with friends and family to play cards, board games and socialize. All year round we maintain a healthy active lifestyle by exercising regularly and eating right. Every summer we schedule a weekly family va cation. Last summer we splashed around with friends and their children at a water park, roared at the lions and tigers at a nearby zoo, and rode on Thomas the train with grandparents.

Our Home Our ranch style home is located in a quiet, family friendly neighborhood of a small town with the convenience of a ten minute commute for work and shopping. We treasure that the community is a good place to raise children.

Our eleven year marriage grows and strengthens each year. Shared joys and sorrows developed us into the strong team that we are today. We met in college, were best friends for a year before we began to date, dated for three years and married soon after we completed our education. We both come from similar backgrounds and share common goals. We spend as much time together as possible as a family.
Our family relationships are strong. We talk on the phone often, get together on weekends, plan vacations together, and celebrate birthdays and holiday traditions.
We were born and raised in the Christian faith and continue to practice our faith by attending church every Sunday.

We promise to continue to be a stable, loving home forever for all our children. We will provide all of our children the best advantage to develop, learn, grow and be challenged in a safe, warm, nurturing, environment. Children need to develop by support, praise and encouragement. Discipline involves teaching children to learn how to make the correct choices in life. We both grew up in loving environments with support and praise and believe in the same parenting values that fostered our development.
We place a strong importance on education. We are both working professionals with higher education and understand the opportunities that are awarded to people who challenge themselves and continue to strive for more education. We currently tuck away savings each month for our children to have the educational opportunity of their choice.

Going forward:
We are thankful for your time in reading this introduction of us. We agree to respect whichever level of openness that you would be most comfortable with. We believe that leaving options open is the best situation for everyone who loves this child. We appreciate your consideration in making us the parents of your child. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your baby as you move forward. We know that this decision just needs to feel right and we hope that we are the right family for you.

Take care,
Jeff and Jen