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Dear Expectant Parents,
Hi there!
Our names are Mike and Julie!
We want to share with you how grateful and
genuinely humbled we are by your courage, strength, and
your sincere love for your unborn child.
We are sincerely honored that you are considering
us as potential adoptive parents!
We welcome you and invite you to learn as much as
you possibly can about us as you discern and develop
your perfect adoption plan for your baby.
Mike and I are so excited to share our lives with
you so that you can learn what we are all about!
We are thrilled that we may one day have the
incredible opportunity to learn more about you and to
meet you in person!
We (Mike and Julie) agree that we are truly kindred
spirits! We
were introduced by special friends several years ago and
quickly developed a sincere friendship that evolved into
an incredible and life changing relationship!
We have been together ever since and look forward
to spending the rest of our lives together!
We are very passionate about our love story and
are 100% committed to one another in every way.
We are a very happily married couple with strong
morals, a true faith in God, and a very special love for
children.
We have a healthy, pure, honest, respectful, and loving
marriage.
We strive to build each other up in every way and
believe in validating one another on a daily basis.
Our relationship is continually renewed by our
faith in each other and our diligence to be committed to
one another with every part of our being!
We believe we are a beautiful family; however, our true
desire is to have a child… to love, care for, and learn
from. Mike
and I have been through extensive infertility testing
and medical procedures which have been consistently
unsuccessful.
We have hope, however, and believe that we may
one day be blessed with a child, thanks to you, through
this incredible journey of adoption.
Please know that your genuineness, compassion,
and love for life will play a significant role in our
lives. We
thank you for choosing the gift of “life” for your
child! Mike
and I cannot imagine, or begin to imagine, what this
season of your life must be like.
We can, however, empathize with you and pray for
you, as well as share our deepest hopes and dreams of
how your tough season and our tough season together can
create an absolutely beautiful life for your precious
child. We
will be praying that you continue to have the strength,
support, and courage throughout your pregnancy to make
the best decision for
you and for
your baby.
Please know that without special individuals like
you, families like us would never, ever have the
opportunity to be parents.
Through your genuine and courageous act of love,
our lives will
be changed forever!
My Mike.
. . Mike is so
precious! He is strong, but calm, kind hearted,
compassionate, and he is an incredibly humble man. He
has a gentle heart and manner and sees the positive
qualities in everyone.
He is genuine, as well as pure and loving.
While gentle and initially shy, Mike is
also funny, intelligent, and courageous!
Mike is sincerely passionate about life and about
living each day with optimism one day at a time. He
exudes strong morals, a solid character,
self-confidence, self-motivation, as well as a happy and
fun loving personality. I have an unbelievable amount of
respect for my husband... He is my perfect caregiver.
He is my strength, my protector, and my very best
friend!
Mike works as a lead mechanical designer
with a prominent engineering firm in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana. He uses computer programs, as well as hand
sketching, to design intricate piping systems for many
of the large plants, such as Exxon, Chevron, and
BP.
His work is similar to that of an architect... in
that he must perceive, visualize, and intricately
develop 3-dimensional designs, specifically piping
systems. He is very hard working and very well
respected. He is considered one of the most talented
designers in his profession.
For Fun, Mike enjoys fishing, hunting,
exercising, running, camping, snow skiing, reading,
tailgating at football games, and spending quality time
with family and friends. He loves to watch football,
especially LSU
football!
He also enjoys designing and building furniture and is
incredibly talented with most woodworking projects.
Mike has a 24 foot bay boat and loves to spend
time on the water! He enjoys taking family and friends
fishing. Mike is a true outdoors man!
My Julie.
. . Julie is a
true gift to me from God. She is my best friend, my
beautiful wife, and my everlasting partner in life. She
is a very smart, energetic, bubbly, vivacious, and happy
person. I
have so much appreciation and respect for her as a
person and as my wife. Julie has such a brilliant aura
about her. I see people light up whenever she is around.
Julie is a very sensitive, caring, and empathetic
woman and she appreciates and respects individual
differences in people.
She believes that morals, honesty, self-respect,
accountability, and forgiveness are extremely important
in life.
Julie is an honest, accepting, and selfless woman and
she is an incredible caregiver!
She demonstrates so much love and patience with
people, especially children.
She has a
wonderful and gentle manner with children. I know, for a
fact, she was put on this earth to be a mommy!
Julie is a pediatric occupational therapist. She has
devoted the last 14 years of her life to working with,
caring for, and absolutely adoring children with special
needs. She believes that she was meant to be an
occupational therapist and was introduced to this unique
profession at 7 years of age when her youngest sister,
Genie, was born with Down Syndrome.
Genie is so precious, pure, and full of life! Julie
loves the special children she works with, and has
learned so much about life, love, and acceptance from
each and every one of them!
For fun, Julie loves exercising, bike riding,
playing tennis, bird feeding/bird watching, fishing,
camping, baking cakes, cooking, snow skiing, and
spending time with her wonderful husband, family and
friends!
Together, we thoroughly enjoy any and all outdoor
activities and we look forward to our annual vacations
to the mountains and to the beach!
Growing up, we were both involved in many team
and individual sports and we believe these experiences
have helped us to remain active in our adulthood.
We look forward to sharing our active and
energetic lifestyles with a child!
We plan to expose our child to many individual
and team/group activities and sports, while encouraging
and respecting personal likes/dislikes as well as
independent decision making.
As a couple and as future parents, we feel very strongly
about education, faith, honesty, and personal character.
We promise to provide our child with a safe,
healthy, financially secure, emotionally secure, and
loving home, always.
As parents, we promise to love our child
unconditionally and to accept him/her for being a unique
individual.
We will strive to instill moral values, strong
character, self-confidence, independence, and the best
education in our child.
Throughout their development, we intend to
provide our child with a solid foundation and the tools
to become a successful, well-adjusted, and confident
adult. We
will encourage compassion, playfulness, and an
understanding of true acceptance of others.
We live in a large subdivision in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
(approximately 45 minutes from New Orleans, Louisiana)
with many growing families, most with young, active
children.
Our home is nestled on a large (3/4 acre lot) with lots
of trees and open space for a swing set, jungle gym, and
lots of kid’s toys!
Our home consists of 4 large bedrooms with 3 full
bathrooms.
We are fortunate to have very large eat-in kitchen and
an “extra” room which we intend to eventually develop
into a playroom!
We live around the block from our neighborhood
park and swimming pool, both within walking distance.
Baton Rouge is a great city with many fun and
rewarding opportunities for children and adults!
There are wonderful private schools in the
surrounding area as well as many parks, malls, bike
trails, tennis courts, open play fields, and of course…
Louisiana State University, home of the LSU
Tigers! LSU
is bordered and surrounded by beautiful lakes, walking
paths, nature trails, a beach, and several playgrounds!
The campus is family friendly and beautiful to
explore on the weekends!
LSU tailgating during football season with family
and friends is a MUST… and is always so much fun!
We can’t wait to share these incredible
opportunities and experiences with our child one day!
We have many close friends who have children, as well as
family who live near by!
Both of our parents have been married for over 35
years! We
often gather with friends and family for bar-b-ques,
pool parties, birthdays, recreational sport activities,
and seasonal festivities on the weekends.
We share ALL holidays and birthdays with
immediate and extended family.
Our families are very large with many siblings,
nieces, nephews, cousins, and aunts and uncles!
Julie’s Maw Maw is 84 years old and continues to
be an inspiration and incredible role model for all of
her grandchildren and great grandchildren.
She shares so much love with her family!
We can’t wait for her to meet our precious baby!
We appreciate and value our families and are
passionate about our traditional holiday celebrations,
especially Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter where we
gather with lots of presents, good times, and of course,
tons of yummy food!
There is an overwhelming amount of love that is
shared within our families.
They cannot wait to share their love with our new
baby. Our
child WILL be
showered with lots of acceptance and love!
We want you to know that we will always respect, value,
and honor you and your life choices and decisions as the
birth mother of our child.
We intend to share with our child about your
genuine and unconditional love for them as well as your
commitment to him/her from a very early age.
We will educate our child on open adoption and
always express how truly special it is to be adopted and
loved by two mommies and daddies!
We hope to have the opportunity to share pictures
with you, exchange letters, and visit on occasion, if
you wish, so that you can follow your child’s life
journey and feel confident that he/she is valued,
appreciated, and loved completely and unconditionally.
In closing, we would like to express our sincere
gratitude for your taking the time to learn about us.
We hope and pray that you are able to make a
peaceful decision as to whether or not you feel that we
have the qualities, character traits, and family values
that you are looking for.
You have an incredible responsibility and we
respect your every decision.
We will be diligent in praying for you and your
unborn baby.
May God give you strength, courage, and peace as
your journey unfolds and as you make one of the most
important decisions in your life.
Much love,
Mike and Julie
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