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Thomas & Sarah are hopeful adoptive parents from Texas 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, Hello and thank you for this opportunity to introduce ourselves! We want you to know how much we admire and respect you for the difficult decisions you have made, as well as for those that lie ahead. Your courageous decisions take a great deal of strength, unselfishness and love, and we are deeply honored that you are considering us to be the family for your precious baby.

About Us: Although we had lots of mutual friends and both went to college in Virginia, we met at a wedding in 2001. We hit it off immediately and began dating one week later! At the time, Thomas was living in his native state of Virginia, while Sarah was living in her native Texas. While we were falling for each other, Thomas also fell for the unique beauty of the Texas Hill Country, and he moved to Texas one year later.

We have been happily married for four and half years, and our love for each other grows stronger each day. We are both caring, compassionate people with an optimistic approach to life. We believe in living life to its fullest and keeping a sense of humor! We love being in the outdoors, exploring new places, being active, and most of all, spending time with family and friends.

We have hoped for a child for a long time, and we are very ready to become parents and grow our family. We are very excited to give a child our unconditional love, constant support and encouragement and a stable and secure home. We want to share our optimism, our passions and our love of life with a child. Importantly, we also look forward to our child learning about the wonderful love, strength and courage of his or her birth mother.

About Sarah (by Thomas): I am so fortunate to have met Sarah! Many of the qualities that first attracted me to Sarah will also make her an incredible mother to our child, including her compassionate, gentle spirit; her selfless devotion to family and friends; her strong foundation of spirituality and respect for the beauty of all of God’s creations; her playfulness and her quick laughter. Sarah has fun in everything she does! Although she is a lawyer by training, her true passion is education and helping children, and our child will be so incredibly lucky to have Sarah as his or her parent, teacher and role model along life’s journey. On a lighter but equally comforting note, our child will also be very fortunate to enjoy Sarah’s world class cooking, including her chicken enchiladas and, on holidays, buttermilk pies!

Sarah currently works part-time out of our home, and she is involved as a volunteer in several community organizations. Once we have a child, Sarah plans to stop working to focus on being a mother. She enjoys hiking, tennis, running, cooking, traveling and reading, and I know she can’t wait to introduce our child to these activities.

About Thomas (by Sarah): I feel so blessed to have met Thomas! I admire and respect him tremendously. He is thoughtful, intelligent, caring and compassionate. He does everything with great integrity and treats everyone with great respect, while also being easy-going and fun-loving. He is a great listener, and he provides me with endless support and advice.

For all of the qualities I love about Thomas, I know he will be a remarkable father! He is playful, patient and nurturing and, as much as I love to watch him with other children, I am so eager to see him as a father to our own child. I know he can not wait to share his spirituality and love of education, the outdoors, reading, fishing and boating with our child.

Thomas is a partner at a well-regarded law firm in our city – he actually chose this firm when he first moved to Texas because of its strong, family-friendly culture. He has a flexible schedule that allows him to set his own hours, so he can work around dinners, school activities, sporting events and other family events. Although he is a trusted and respected colleague to his law partners, I know that Thomas’s first priority will always be his family.

Our Families: We are both blessed with wonderful, close-knit families built on a solid Christian faith with strong moral values and respect for others. Our families fully support and are so excited about our decision to adopt. Our parents (who have each been married for 39 years!) have set a wonderful example for us to follow, and our siblings are all excellent role models for the types of loving, supporting parents we strive to be.

Sarah's parents, Jan and David (or Nan and D to their grandkids!) are both from Texas and we are fortunate to have them living right around the corner from us. Sarah is very close to her two sisters. Her older sister, Denise and her husband, Paul, are both doctors who live in North Carolina with their daughter. Mary Clare and her husband, Jamie, live just a few blocks from us with their three fun-loving and incredibly active children. Thomas's parents, Tom and Kathy (or Nana and Pop to their granddaughters!) are both from and still live in a small town near the Chesapeake Bay of Virginia. Thomas has an older sister, Mary Nell, who lives in Virginia with her husband, Mike with their two daughters.

We currently have five nieces and one nephew – Lucy (7), Jackson (5), Maddie (3 1/2), Jillian (2 1/2), Jonesie (1) and Allie (4 months), and they can not wait to have a new cousin!! We love spending time with these kids, and we are very eager to be parents and to start a family of our own. We look forward to introducing our child to our nieces and nephews, and we know that they will have fun growing up together.

Holidays: Holidays are always wonderful occasions with our families and are filled with fun and lots of laughter! We have many traditions, and we try to spend time with both of our families over the Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. The center of activity is usually the kitchen, and everyone participates in the cooking, especially Paul, Sarah's brother-in-law, who is an excellent cook. In addition to family meals, we love spending time outdoors together, playing games, telling stories and just visiting.

Our Home: We live in Central Texas, in a tight-knit neighborhood with tree-lined streets, parks for exploring, great schools within walking distance and plenty of playful children. Friends and family describe our house as warm and welcoming, and we have a perfect, sun-filled room to serve as our nursery. We also have a wonderful yard, where we enjoy picnicking outside, and our nieces and nephew love to play baseball, soccer, hide-and-seek, chase bubbles and ride bikes. We love to think about playing with our child in this yard, and we cannot wait to explore our neighborhood through the eyes of our child. Our nieces and nephew also cannot wait to have a new cousin to play with and add to their teams!

Friends: We are blessed to have so many wonderful friends in our lives, all of whom are very excited about our decision to adopt. Almost all of our friends have children, and we love spending time with them – they keep us laughing! Activities with our friends almost always include children! We enjoy BBQs, weekends at the lake or in the Hill Country, and, in the summer, lounging around the pool at our club – lots of kids are always splashing about, taking swim lessons or just enjoying ice cream! Our city is also known for its outdoor and family-friendly activities – we look forward to taking our child to the annual Kite Festival, the holiday Trail of Lights, and canoeing around the lake.

Vacations: Although Central Texas and the Texas Hill Country are both pretty special, we also love to explore other places – our favorite spots are the Colorado mountains and the North Carolina beaches – but we love traveling in Europe also. We love to ski, go on long hikes or play on the beach, and we are excited to introduce our child to these wonderful places and the great family activities that wait! We believe that exposure to different places, people, and cultures inspires learning, awareness and appreciation, and we are eager to share these values with our child.

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Our Promise to You: If you select us to be the adoptive parents of your precious baby, we promise to give that child our unconditional love and to provide a stable and secure home. We promise that we will build our family on faith, compassion and respect for others. We promise to give our child constant support and encouragement and to help our child reach his or her full potential. We promise to provide our child with opportunities for personal growth and life experiences that instill self-confidence and love for the wonder of God's many creations. We promise that our child will have the love and care of many additional family members and friends. Finally, we promise that, with our child, we will explore, laugh, learn and love everyday!


Love,
Sarah and Thomas
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