Waiting Family Profiles

Home Location: Twin Cities Metro

Family Status: Couple without children

Children in Home: None

Child Ethnicity: African American, Asian, Caucasian, East Indian, Hispanic/Latino, Native American

Hi!  We are Bjorn and Whitney Peterson from Minneapolis.  We appreciate you taking the time to learn about us.  We are so excited to grow our family through open adoption and we would be grateful for the opportunity to tell you more about our lives.

About Us

We have been together for well over a decade and married for eight years.  Having always known the we wanted to be parents, adoption has been a part of our plan from the beginning.  We have built a home on respect, communication, understanding, curiosity, and love that we can’t wait to share with our child.

We met in sixth grade in a very small town in North Dakota where we were both in the same class.  After dating through high school, we both moved down to the Twin Cities for college.  We were married in the spring of 2011 and now live in a house in South Minneapolis with our rescue dog Bonnibel.  Whitney works as a Mental Health Practitioner, providing therapy for preschool aged kids with autism, and Bjorn works at a food co-op.

Our Joys and Passions:

•     Cooking together
•     Long road trips
•     Digging in our garden
•     Visiting art museums
•     Listening to music
•     Cuddling on the couch (with Bonnie!)
•     Environmental sustainability

Whitney loves to create, whether it be drawings, photographs, crocheting blankets, nurturing her collection of house plants, or even designing and making her own soap.  She is passionate, curious, and intensely caring.  Her work is immensely important to her as she relishes making a difference in the lives of her kids each day.

Bjorn is a lifelong musician and songwriter and loves reading, watching movies, and keeping up on current events.  He is unfaltering in his kindness, compassion, and convictions.  Bjorn donates much of his time to causes important to him and finds great reward in helping others.

Our Family

We are very fortunate to have a strong network of supportive and loving family members.  In addition to an array of close siblings, parents, and extended family, we are blessed to be the Godparents of our nephew as well as the two sons of our close friends.  Though our family is spread throughout the country, from Wisconsin to California, we grow closer and closer as time goes on.

Most of our family lives in North Dakota, however, where we often gather for holidays, birthdays, and other family events.  Although traveling with Whitney’s family has brought us all around the world including Hawaii and England.

Thank You

We Promise:

•     To provide a home full of learning, laughs, and unconditional love
•     To be honest, patient, and steadfastly supportive
•     To nurture our child’s mind, body, and heart
•     To always put our child’s needs before our own

Thank you so much for taking the time to learn about us.  We hope this gives you an idea of who we are and the kind of parents we would be.  In general we do our best to live simple, value driven lives filled with adventure and compassion for our neighbors and future generations.  We would love to get the opportunity to get to know more about you.  Our dream is for an open adoption that provides for the best interests of everyone involved and the most love for the child.  Wishing you all the best.

 

Warmest regards,

Bjorn & Whitney

 

Please feel free to reach out to us at:

bjornandwhitneypeterson@gmail.com

701.729.1664

Or contact: Sam Roach

at Children’s Home & LSS

sam.roach@chlss.org