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Dwight & Anita 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 Birthparents We can only imagine how difficult this decision is for you and we commend you for your courage. We are certain there are many qualified families for you to consider. Maybe after reading about our lives you will feel that our qualifications are more than our neighborhood, or our schools, or our professions. Maybe we share the same values or the same outlook on life. Maybe we can provide the home that you have envisioned for your child. Hopefully, at the end of this letter you will have an idea of who we are and what we feel is important for a life worth sharing.

We have enjoyed each other’s company for many years, accepted and conquered challenges, succeeded in our professional and personal relationships as well as experienced loss and disappointment. We’ve learned what it takes to make a strong marriage. We want to focus the rest of our life on providing a nurturing, loving and adventurous environment for our children.

We always planned on having a large family but after trying every medical procedure, we were still unable to conceive a child. We realized that there are many ways to have a family and that God must have a special plan for us. We were truly blessed in November 2007 with the adoption of our son Owen. He is loved by everyone in our family and seems to attract people’s attention everywhere we go.

After Owen’s first birthday we realized that we wanted to grow our family. We want our children to have each other to turn to throughout their lives. We are close to our sisters and know that the relationships we shared with them shaped the people we are today.

We long to share our life, to guide our children from infancy to adulthood and to wrap our children in security and love in the Christian faith. We don’t claim to be perfect and we learn from our mistakes. We can only promise to be the best parents we can be. We hope you will understand why bringing children into our family is so important to us.

Anita and Dwight Anita is fun, loving, patient, energetic, kind and makes countless facets of my life easy. She is the most important person in my life and I can not imagine having a family with anyone else. Anita loves to cook and bake, knit, garden, play and coach volleyball, read, spend time with friends, decorate…the list is endless. She honestly exudes energy and creativity in everything she does. Anita is extremely giving of her time. She and her sister volunteer at the Ronald McDonald House by preparing meals and helping to plan their events. She also coaches grade school volleyball. She is dedicated to her family, her work and her charity but most of all to us.

Anita’s parents are from Croatia. She is the middle of three sisters. There was a little shake-up in our otherwise small family when Anita’s older sister shared the wonderful news that she was having triplets. The 6 year old triplets and their 13 year old sister always love coming to our house. Our get-togethers are never quiet and every person who joins our family only makes the occasion livelier. Anita’s younger sister is married with a beautiful baby girl. She is also a physics teacher at a prestigious college prep high school in Chicago.

Dwight is intelligent, charming, strong, talented, caring, and everyone’s “go to guy” when they need something done. He has a strong work ethic and is an excellent provider. Dwight recently accepted a management position at a large company downtown. He is only a 28 minute train ride from home. He is on the Executive Board of the private high school he attended.

Dwight has run 12 marathons. I am always amazed with his dedication while training for a race, working on a project, or simply fixing our computers (the latter, more often than he likes). Dwight likes to fish, bike, kayak, draw and takes some amazing photographs.

Dwight grew up in Chicago’s far south suburbs and his parents still live in the house where he was raised. They are from a small town in central Illinois and have maintained their small town values. Both are now retired and spend many evenings and weekends with their grandchildren. Dwight has one sister who has two children aged 13 and 18. His sister is a first grade teacher and loves being around kids. Dwight’s nephew is in college in Florida. His niece is a figure skater and refers to him as “funcle” (Fun Uncle). Dwight is wonderful around children of all ages. He is patient, inquisitive, and fun. He seems to have boundless energy when it comes to the children of our family and our friends. I remember once when my niece was about three or four, Dwight was having a tea party with her content as could be in the Land of Make Believe.

Family Fun We are a family who knows how to have fun. We love the outdoors. We enjoy traveling and exploring. Dwight considered me a city girl through and through until we went on our first camping trip to Utah. He was so impressed that I was able to sleep in a tent, cook breakfast over a single burner and hike a 10-mile trail in 90-degree heat, that he agreed to spend a night in a comfy hotel with cable, room service and a hot shower. We have hiked in the Rocky Mountains, taken a helicopter ride to a dog sled camp on a glacier in Alaska, and watched eels swim in the Adriatic Sea in Croatia. Many of those vacations were with our families and we are looking forward to sharing new adventures with our children.

Owen visited his aunts, uncle and many cousins in Croatia for a month vacation. He has spent many weekends at our cottage in Michigan. He has even been to several Chicago Bear football games.

We try to attend many of the plays/musicals/events that come to the city. In the fall and winter we make good use of our Chicago Bears season tickets and brave either extreme heat or extreme cold to cheer them on to victory. On summer weekends, we pack up the car and head to the family cottage in Michigan. We boat and jet ski on the lake, have bonfires and enjoy the most spectacular 4th of July fireworks out on our boat. Every year we invite our friends, and all the kids, to the cottage for a fun filled weekend. A few summers ago, Dwight spent three days entertaining his niece and 5 of her 9-year old friends at the lake.

So That is Our Story We hope you've enjoyed reading this and getting to know us a bit. Our relationship is strong and we are committed to each other. We have incredibly loving and supportive family and friends. We have the will, the love and the resources to give our children a wonderful life. The greatest gift we could give to the world is to raise children who know love, family, responsibility, and have the desire to be good people. We will foster a loving, stable, dynamic environment in which children will experience all that we can offer.

We want our children to have a lifetime of family memories. They will have each other to share secrets with, play in the back seat of the car on the way to the cottage, argue over who caught the biggest fish and catch fireflies and frogs in the summer together. And of course we invite you to share in all of these adventures through pictures and letters.

Without a doubt, this decision will be one of the most important decisions you'll ever make, and we want it to be the right one for all of us. Maybe you were able to picture your child with us or playing with Owen. If even for a moment you could envision your child with us, then there is so much more we'd like to share with you. We would also like to learn about you and your family as we will all be connected.

If you are interested in speaking with us, please contact Angel Adoption toll free at 1-877-264-3555. (1-877-Angel-55)