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Scott & Kerry are hopeful adoptive parents from Connecticut waiting to adopt a baby.

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

HELLO Hello and thank you very much for checking out our profile!

We are Scott and Kerry. We are very much looking forward to sharing our lives with a child and looking forward to the journey all of us will take in this adoption process. We cannot know how you are feeling, but we would like you to know how how courageous and loving a person you are to choose this path for your baby.

BECOMING PARENTS We are excited and eager to expand our family. We have so much love and happiness together and we look forward to sharing that love and happiness with a child.

ABOUT US We have been happily married for three years and have been together for more than five. Scott has worked full time for the State of Connecticut for many years. Kerry provides freelance bookkeeping and paralegal services to small businesses, which will allow her the flexibility to be a stay-at-home mom.

We have a cat named Whiskers. She is our “old lady” at twelve years old.

We like getting together with friends for dinner, going to and hosting picnics in the summer, taking in a movie or seeing a comedy show. We really enjoy taking long walks – we walk just about everyday. Scott loves baseball and we have been to a few major league games. We enjoy traveling and have been to Bermuda and New Zealand along our journeys. We recently tried cross-country skiing and indoor rock-climbing. Kerry likes to rollerblade and play tennis. We also enjoy simply staying home and working around the house.

The fall season brings the traditional trip to our local farm market for pumpkin picking with friends and their kids. It also means the arrival of fairs around Connecticut where we love to walk around, enjoy the food, see the animals and play some games.

Something that both of us feel is important is dinnertime together. We both feel this is an important time for family to come together to talk about the day’s events and enjoy each other’s company. We prepare our dinner together every day and enjoy the quality time.

We really look forward to sharing our lives and traditions with children.

ABOUT KERRY TOLD BY SCOTT

I met Kerry in January of 2003 after placing a profile online. We dated for about a year and were engaged in February of 2004. Asking Kerry to marry me was the easiest decision in my life. One of Kerry’s dreams was to have a wedding in Bermuda. In September of 2005, that dream came true.

In Kerry, I found someone who I can sit and talk to or sit and say nothing at all with; someone who is willing to compromise but who will also stand her ground; someone who will be by my side on life's highways as well as the bumpy detours; someone who will accept me for who I am as well as for who I am not; someone who explores my interests and exposes me to hers; Someone I love being with and miss when we are apart.

I wanted a relationship where for richer, for poorer, for better, for worse, in good times and bad, actually meant something. I wanted a relationship where we both knew when to follow, when to lead, and when to walk side by side. I wanted a relationship where we both understood that loyalty and trust are never a question, hers or mine. I wanted a relationship where openness and honesty were second nature. With Kerry, I have all of that and more.

Kerry is fun, loving and truly caring. She is free spirited, driven in life, dedicated and courageous. She is hardworking and intelligent. Being very outgoing, Kerry loves being with family and friends and experiencing new activities. She is supportive and nurturing and will go out of her way to help a friend or family member. She loves crafting, Motley Crue, and getting together with our families at holidays. She makes awesome chocolate and caramel covered apples. After our trip to New Zealand, she hates to fly.

Since the day I met Kerry, she has talked about adopting a child. Seeing her be the best daughter, sister, friend and wife one could ask for, I can only believe that Kerry will make nothing less than a wonderful mother.

ABOUT SCOTT TOLD BY KERRY

Scott and I met in January 2003. When we first met, I thought he was so handsome! He was and still is such a polite gentleman. He has many wonderful qualities including the fact that he has good morals and values. He is just a good person! He is very attentive, he has a genuine interest to be involved in the things that I do, even if he does not share the same interest.

We are a team. Scott is always there for me. I feel love and support from him everyday. He encourages me to pursue the things in life that make me happy and is always there to listen and offer advice when needed. He is the best husband - he helps put together the grocery list; he does laundry and dishes and works beside me to clean the house. We are partners in life, and I couldn’t be happier!

He loves to be with family and friends and everyone loves him. He is extremely caring and would go out of his way to help a friend or even someone he just met.

He enjoys collecting old-time toy cars and listening to oldies and country music. He enjoys gardening and being outside. He is extremely handy and is somewhat of a jack-of-all-trades and enjoys projects around the house and yard. I am hoping we can start a vegetable garden this year!

I’ve enjoyed watching Scott interact and play with his nieces and nephews and our friends’ children. He clearly has a good time and the kids really take to him. I know he will make a wonderful father!

FAMILY KERRY ON HER FAMILY

My family is really great. I have a mom, step-dad and older brother. In addition to my immediate family, I have a large extended family, which includes aunts, uncles, many cousins and their children. Everyone is so supportive of our plans to adopt.

My mom and step-father have so much love and are so excited at the prospect of becoming grandparents for the first time! I have an older brother who is a lot of fun to be around. I know he is looking forward to playing videogames with his new niece or nephew.

My mom is one of four girls in her family and she was close with her sisters especially as they all raised their children. My brother and I were raised with some of our cousins almost as if they were siblings. Holidays were always so much fun! Today, Scott and I carry on the tradition of hosting Christmas Eve for the family.

There is honestly not enough space for me to talk about my mother, father and step-father. My mom always put her children first in life. She taught us to have good morals and values, the importance of being a good, honest, hard-working person. She really taught us to be self-sufficient. My mom is now retired from having worked with the State for more than twenty years. She really enjoys quilting, going to the gym and volunteering at the homeless shelter and convalescent home. I think she has already started working on a quilt for the new baby.

My step-father, Jerry, came into my life when my brother and I were teenagers. He truly loves us like we are his own children. He is always there for us whether it’s to lend support or offer advice - everything that a dad does. Jerry currently works for the town in which we live and looks forward to retiring in the next two to three years. He is an avid diver and is also interested in physical fitness. In anticipation of all the free time he will have when he retires, he is currently in the process of obtaining his certification to become a personal trainer as well as certification to become a dive instructor. We are a pretty close-knit family.

Although my parents were divorced, my dad had a presence in all of our lives. He was a great man who had a wonderful sense of humor and loved my brother and me dearly. My mom and dad would help each other out, if or when they needed something. Sadly, my dad was taken from us too early in life in 1994. We move forward with good memories.

SCOTT ON HIS FAMILY

I come from a large immediate family, which includes my mom and dad, 3 older brothers and 1 younger sister and lots of nieces and nephews.

My parents have been married 50 years! I am so lucky to have had such great role models and I have learned so much from them about how to be a good parent. I know they, too, are very excited to welcome a new grandbaby.

My parents have always taken an active interest in the lives of their children and grandchildren. Whether there’s a baseball game, award ceremony, bowling tournament, or what have you, they’re always there. If you need a baby sitter, taxi driver or handyman, they’re just a phone call away.

While Kerry and I do not believe in making a big deal with our child over him/her being adopted, he/she will of course be raised with the knowledge that they were adopted. I think your child will feel more connected knowing that I have adopted members in my family. My sister, Amy, was adopted by my parents at birth. I can remember being extremely excited when they brought my new sister home. She is going to be a wonderful aunt. My older brother, Mark and his wife, Debbie, adopted their son, Matthew about three years ago. Matthew joined our family when he was two years old. Although Amy and Matthew were adopted, they are my sister and nephew.

My other two brothers also have families of their own. There is a lot of action and a lot of cousins around to play with!

OUR HOME AND NEIGHBORHOOD

We live in a really great neighborhood; very close to where Kerry grew up. Many of the families that she grew up with are still in the area. Kerry’s family lives in town as well. Scott’s family is about 20 minutes away.

Our house is a colonial with four bedrooms and three and one-half bathrooms. There is a nice yard for children to play. We have a deck off the back of the house where we keep the grill, which we use quite often. We enjoyed hosting a picnic for family and friends last summer and look forward to doing more this upcoming summer.
Our house is in a residential area, but within walking distance to the local market, town library, schools, park, baseball field, tennis courts and the local YMCA.

The town has an excellent school system, which Kerry has first hand knowledge of as she attended the schools in town while growing up.