Waiting Families Database

Dear Birth Parent,

Thank you so much for choosing to read our letter. We can’t imagine what a difficult time this must be for you. We hope that as a result of your reading our letter you will feel comfort knowing that there is a great, loving, fun couple out there who would feel blessed with the opportunity to care for your child. My name is Melanie and my husband John and I have tried for about 12 years to have a child. Unfortunately, we could not get pregnant, so we decided to adopt to give your child a wonderful life filled with lots of stability and love.

John and I have been married for 14 wonderful years. We are each others best friend. We met through a mutual friend at a birthday party. We started talking and we ended up sitting next to each other for dinner and by dessert he was asking me for my phone number. We have never been apart since the day we met! We only dated for a few short months, before John asked me to marry him. We met in September and got married in April. It was a beautiful wedding in a very historic church. After the wedding, John and I honeymooned in the Caribbean. We love the beach and had a great time exploring, swimming, and reading books.

I know we both were attracted to each other because we both love family and we have learned to work well together. John is thoughtful, caring and a very hard worker. He is a Senior Executive with the Government in the Hi Tech industry. He also is a wonderful father to his daughter, Heather, from his first marriage. She is 27 years old, a flight attendant and lives about 3 hours from us. She would love to have a sister or brother. John also loves to fix things around the house. Right now he is putting up chair rail and molding in what will be your child’s room. I on the other hand, compliment John by decorating the house. I also love to cook when I am not working in sales for an office supply company. I will quit my job once we have our adoptive child to care for him/her full time. I am also involved in the Junior League, which raises money for homeless children. John and I feel it is very important to give back to our community, since we have been so blessed with wonderful lives ourselves. We also attend a nearby church and help out with specials causes.

Both John and I come from fairly large families, so it is no wonder why we want to have children. He has five brothers and sisters and I have 4 sisters and 1 brother as well. As you might think, the holidays are never quiet in our house as we generally have Thanksgiving and/or Christmas in our home for some of our relatives. I just love to decorate the house for everyone for every holiday. I also make a big production on birthdays. We feel it is important to celebrate everything. These are some of the traditions that we believe help bring families together. They also help to build strong bonding and solid parent-child relations. We have so much love that we want to share with a child along with sharing our knowledge to help educate him/her. We can’t wait to teach the basics of laughter, playing sports, and just being silly. This is all a part of raising a child.

We have a wonderful, bright and cheerful 4 bedroom home on a golf course. We live at the end of a cul-de-sac, a perfect situation to ride a bike and play safely. We have a community pool, tennis courts, bike paths, playgrounds and a clubhouse. There are also a lot of great neighbors that we are friends with that have children. We are always outside playing with them when we can. We also have a small condo on the Delaware shore that is only 3 miles from the beach. We often go there with our family and friends. We would love our adoptive child to learn how to swim and maybe surf. John loves to surf!

While we know how difficult this decision may be for you, we hope you will find comfort in knowing that we can provide a secure and loving environment for your child. We will love your child with all our hearts and do our best to raise him or her to be a person we can all be proud of. We can’t wait to be a Mom and Dad!

Thank you so much for considering us,
Melanie & John