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Rich & Brenda are hopeful adoptive parents from Washington waiting to adopt a baby.

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

Welcome Thank you for reading our letter. We want you to know how grateful we are that you are considering an adoption plan for your child. We believe all children deserve to grow up in a loving, caring, safe family filled with fun and opportunity.

Our names are Rich and Brenda. We live in a Seattle neighborhood full of kids, schools and parks. We are excited about raising a family and sharing in the joys and challenges of parenting. We promise to give our child a loving, caring, safe and fun home filled with fun and opportunity.

We have been married two years and have been planning to build our family through adoption since the day we met 5 years ago. Knowing that adoption was our #1 choice for building our family, we started an international adoption from Vietnam as soon as we got married. We have both spent time traveling and living in other countries and truly appreciate other cultures and the diversity in the world and would like to build a family that shares those values. However, a few months ago, we received disappointing news regarding our international adoption. The Vietnamese and American governments were unable to renegotiate the terms of the countries’ adoption agreement, and shortly after the program closed.

Since then we have had number of very informative discussions with our social worker, friends and family. From those discussions we decided to explore domestic adoption. As we learned more and talked with adoptive parents, birth families and adult adoptees, we began to realize how important it is for an adopted child to understand that adoption is a gift of love shared between birth families and adoptive families. With that goal in mind, we welcome you to join us in an open parent and/or open grandparent adoption!

About Us Our Story-Told by Brenda
We met on an internet dating site 5 years ago while I was living in Poland and Rich was living in Seattle. Rich found my profile and emailed me. He had also lived in Poland a few years earlier.

Upon receiving Rich’s email, I reviewed his profile to find some very important information. Not only was Rich very interested in building a family, he also planned to build his family through adoption. We began to write and call each other a lot, and found out we had many more things in common.

It didn’t take us long to realize that we were meant to be together. Rich was one of the most caring and dependable people I had ever met. By watching him with our friends’ kids and our nieces I knew what a great father he would be. From the kind of dad who will volunteer to wake up in the middle of the night to soothe a crying baby. To the dad that you can count to be involved in those sometime difficult teenage years. Rich was the one for me, I knew I couldn’t let him go.

We were married two years ago in a great outdoor wedding with our families at Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah. After the wedding ceremony, we spent the day hiking as a family.

Our Lives-Told by Rich
I’m really lucky to have a life with Brenda. As many happy couples will say about their partners, she is really my best friend. She’s my favorite person to spend time with. There is so much that I really love about her, qualities that will make her a great mom and that she’ll share with our children. She is the warmest, smartest, most compassionate, positive and adventurous person I know. While spending time in many different countries I have seen strangers of all ages instantly smile and reach out to her as she greets them with her warmth and openness. She is especially loving with children and structures her life to be able to spend time with our young nieces, neighbors and friend’s children. Even while she was busy running her own marketing consulting business she made time to be a part-time nanny for two wonderful little boys.

In our free time we love to learn, be active and travel. We are so excited about sharing our interests with our children while helping them develop their own interests and talents. Throughout the year we enjoy spending time taking classes together including everything from Spanish and Polish language to painting to cooking foods from different cultures. Some of our other favorite things include: walking to the neighborhood farmers market to buy our produce for the week, taking our nieces to a museum/aquarium/zoo and visiting neighborhood summer festivals.

We are also very active outdoors and live in a great area for enjoying the environment and getting outdoors to run, bike, hike, camp, ski and snowshoe. As I mentioned, travel is another one of our passions and we are fortunate to have friends and family all over the world. Our recent trips have taken us to many US National Parks, Hawaii, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, Ecuador, Poland, Croatia and Spain.

We both have really wonderful jobs and great employers who make it easy for us to have fun at work and have time together to enjoy being a couple. I have a great job in education that allows me to combine two of my favorite things—teaching and science. Brenda also has a great job in marketing. She is responsible for helping develop the latest and greatest cell phones.

Our Friends and Family Our child will be loved and raised not only by us but by an extended family of friends and relatives. With grandparents ready to spring into action, our child will be showered with love, learning and happiness. Our child’s aunts, uncles and cousins are also anxiously waiting to share their love, strollers and toys with our little one.

This will be the first baby on Brenda’s side of the family so everyone is eagerly waiting. Rich’s family is very warm, supportive and loving - especially to the children in the family, our two wonderful nieces. We can always count on them for love and support in any situation. Rich’s family will also be great resources for us because his sister and brother-in-law are adoptive parents of an Asian child and his entire family including his parents, brother, and sister and brother-in-law have all spent time living internationally and really appreciate and celebrate different cultures and ethnicities.

Most of our friends already have children so they can’t wait for us to grow our family through adoption. Some of them are so excited they have given us their extras—including a car seat, a jogging stroller, a swing and a lot of clothes, toys and books. We are really looking forward to taking our little one on an outing with our friends to go on a kid’s hike, trick-or-treating, to the Children’s Museum or the Zoo. Some of them can’t even wait until we have kids old enough to join in ski school, soccer league and family camping trips. We are really excited for that!

Becoming Parents Parenting will be one of the most challenging yet rewarding experiences that we will have. So much weight will be put on our shoulders as the mentors, nurturers, protectors of our children. We understand that this is a very large responsibility and we will always strive to have an environment for our family full of love, support, trust, understanding and inspiration. As part of our role as parents we plan to provide our child the opportunity for education (we have already started a college fund), sports and activities, languages and travel.

We know that you will have many thoughts, hopes and dreams as you make an adoption plan for your child. We will do our best to listen to your wishes and work with you to develop a relationship that makes you feel the most comfortable.

We are waiting to hear from you!
If you would like to know more about us, please call or text us at 206-458-3030 or Send us a message. We are easy to talk to and we look forward to learning about you!

If you would feel more comfortable talking to an adoption professional please call our social worker, Dru Groves, at A Center for Adoption Services. Dru's phone number is 206-780-1972.

We wish you a healthy pregnancy, strength and peace during this time. We are thinking of you and hope to hear from you soon. Please look at our album to learn more about our families and our lives, we are hopeful that you'd want your baby to be a part of it!

Respectfully,

Rich & Brenda