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Doug & Patricia 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.

Hi,

We are Doug and Patricia. We want you to know we appreciate that choosing adopting parents must be a difficult task. There are so many loving families for you to choose from! Please know that you have already made a very courageous decision by forming an adoption plan for your child. By reading our profile, we hope that you will get to know more about us.

Our story began when we met each other in medical school. We had so much fun dating each other that we decided to marry three years later. We were able to travel extensively throughout our first years of marriage as well as complete our internship and residency programs. We had fun living in a total of three different states. We have now been married ten years, and we have been settled in our current area for three years. In 2005 we welcomed our son Ethan into our family.

Doug is a supportive husband and a very loving and attentive father. He is a doctor whose schedule allows him to have a lot of vacation time (nearly a third of the year) to spend with me and Ethan. He makes it a priority to be there for Ethan, teaching him bike riding, soccer, and baseball. Doug’s vacation time also allows him to pursue his many hobbies, such as woodworking and fixing things. He made Ethan’s baby crib and changing table which will be used for our next child. He has a huge passion for camping and college football.

Patricia is a smart and caring wife who is a loving mother to Ethan. She is a doctor, too, but she only works one or two days a week so she can spend time with our son. Her time off allows her to be involved in his preschool as well as to take him to such activities as soccer practice and swim lessons. Patricia enjoys spending her time playing outside, including the backyard, the park, and at our local zoo. She loves to cook, read, and play the piano. Motherhood has come very naturally to her, and she has already established some wonderful traditions in our family. Holidays are big events for us, especially Christmas; we love it so much that we even married at Christmastime.

Ethan is an energetic and curious little boy who has brought so much joy into lives. He enjoys being outside where his favorite things include kicking a ball, running around, and playing on his swing set. He plays with any toy that has wheels but especially adores trains. He loves being with his family and his friends, and he truly wants to have a little brother or sister.

We live in a cottage-style house that has a big back yard for playing. Our community is safe and family oriented with wonderful opportunities for education. On our street we have many friends with kids of all ages. We live two hours from Patricia’s parents and siblings. She has a brother and a sister who each have two girls. We live seven hours from Doug’s mom and brother and sister-in-law. To see his family more often, we bought a lake place that is only 3 ½ hours from both of us. Our families are extremely close and supportive and can not wait to welcome another child.

We do focus our life around our family. Whether it’s raking the leaves, playing ball, or eating a meal, we spend much time together. On the weekends we like to entertain our friends who have small children, too. We try to travel every chance we get, even if it’s just a few hours away. We spend many long weekends at our lake place taking rides on the boat and swimming at our favorite swimming hole. To relax, we enjoy reading, fishing, and feeding the ducks. We love the beach, and every year we travel with Ethan to Florida. We have also recently traveled to Disney World where we all enjoyed our best family trip to date.

With all of this, you might be wondering why we want to adopt. As a married couple, our dream has been to have two children so that they could be close to each other and be friends with each other throughout life. We are good friends with our own siblings, and we have always wanted Ethan to have this same loving relationship with a brother or sister of his own. We can not achieve this dream on our own and have turned to Gladney for help. We acknowledge that any child that comes into our family would be a gift from God, and we would treat that gift as most precious. In addition, this child would be the baby of our family and would thus receive all of the extra attention that goes with that honor.

Thank you for taking the time to learn more about us. We appreciate that you are experiencing many emotions right now, and we hope that you are receiving the support that you need. If you choose us, please be assured that your child would be provided with the same emotional and financial support as well as the same unconditional love that we have for Ethan. We look forward to hearing from you.

With love,

Doug and Patricia