John and Jeanmarie
Dear Birth Mother,
We understand the incredibly difficult choices you have to make and wish to help provide you with all the information to make you feel confident and secure in your decision to let us adopt your baby.
We are John and Jean Marie of Pittsburgh, PA. We have been happily married for 13 years. We live in a quiet suburban neighborhood with both an elementary and middle school a short walk away. We have a wooded park with a swimming pool just up the street. But what we enjoy most about our town is, by far, the strong sense of family and community with friends and neighbors we have shared all of our lives.
We both attended the same high school, but Jean Marie graduated before John did, so we would not have met if not for a common friend and the faith of knowing that two people who are meant to be together eventually do find each other. We always intended to have children from the very start, but breakthroughs in medicine have not caught up to us. Without a second thought, we decided that adoption would be the best way to complete our family and share all our blessings with a baby that needed a safe and happy home.
Our home is a modest two-story brick house, all too typical, but very comfortable and accommodating. We share it with two cats we raised from kittens, Shirley and Tito. Jean Marie grew up with a dog in her family, and probably will get one in the future, but she continually surprises John with the way she gets along with the cats. For being a dog-person, the cats follow her around everywhere and even sleep with her on the couch when she stays up to watch TV ! It just goes to show you how animals can sense a warm and compassionate heart.
Jean had some college and took business clerical classes. She worked as a file clerk for years but decided to quit to take care of her ailing father. He has since passed, but Jean has decided not to go back to work in favor of being a housewife. John has never seen anyone that actually enjoys doing the dishes and the laundry as much as her, and is thankful that there is someone to clean up his mess.
John is very busy at work in the Information Technology field and is very happy with his job as a Software Support Engineer for the past 8 years. But when it is time to come home, he has more than enough hobbies to keep him off the computer. He especially enjoys music and plays saxophone in a local concert band. John had both a classical music and a rock and jazz musical background while going to high school and is very happy to return to playing after a long time off.
We try to get away once a year to visit the shore in summer, but most of our free time is spent taking care of the house and yard or going on little day trips to all the great places we have in Pittsburgh to visit --- the museum, the zoo, the symphony, or just a movie.
We both have been selected as Godparents: to Jean Marie’s nephew, Justin, and to our best friends’ daughter, Christie, and son, Michael. We have gone through all the trials and tribulations of raising children, though vicariously, through their parents.
We very much want to share our home and lives with a child. Your baby would be nurtured in a safe and loving home with lots of friends and family to help. He or she would be raised in an environment rich with the opportunity for learning --- education is very important to both of us. We would ensure our child would grow to the top of his or her potential whether in science, sports, or the arts. We would be stern, but not overbearing; giving, but not to the point of spoiling, and above all, compassionate and loving, unconditionally. We were both lucky to have been raised in loving and supportive families and know that those gifts can easily be transferred to our child. We look forward to the day when we are parents, with open eyes, and open hearts.
We are working with the Children’s Home of Pittsburgh, an independent, non-profit licensed adoption agency founded in 1893. Please contact them if you are interested in finding out more about us. A birthparent counselor can reached toll free at 1-800-961-7704 or call 412-441-4884.
Sincerely,
John and Jean Marie