Waiting Family Profiles

Below is a listing of hopeful adoptive families who have an approved study and are excited to meet with you and discuss your wishes for your child. Please click on the family name to go to their individual page and learn more about them.

In addition to the families highlighted below, we have familes that are part of our Waiting Family Book who do not choose to have their profile online. If you are interested in viewing other families or discussing your adoption decision, please contact our Pregnancy Counseling and Birth Parent Services at 888.205.3769 or email at [email protected].

Shana and Will

Matched

Home Location: Virginia

Family Status: Couple without children

Children in Home: None

Child Ethnicity: African American, Asian, Caucasian, Hispanic/Latino

Hi! We are Shana and Will from Sterling, Virginia. We are excited that our journey to become parents has brought us to adoption and we look forward to what the future holds. Thank you for taking the time to learn about us.

A Little About Us:

We met when we both were attending Elizabethtown College 20 years ago. We knew pretty quickly into our relationship that we were it for each other! We’ve been married for 17 years and have always known that we wanted to be parents. Shana is amazing at keeping things on track and organized as well as lending an ear to someone when they want to talk. This helps since she is an Elementary School Counselor. Will has a wonderful sense of humor that he uses when working on projects as a Computer Engineer. He knows how to lighten stressful situations! He is wonderful at seeing the bigger picture in life and helping people and projects get to where they need to be. He is fun loving, enjoys video games, photography and movies. We enjoy time with our family, spending one on one time with our nieces, god children and friends’ kids.

The People in Our Lives:

We have a wonderful group of friends whom we enjoy spending our time with. We’ve traveled with some of them and that has only strengthened our friendships! We enjoy the time we have with their kids too as we have so much fun playing and goofing around. We are also fortunate to have five nieces and two god kids whom we adore. Family is important to us as we try to see them as often as we can. We take pictures with every get together to keep the fun memories going.

Where We Live and What We Do:

We live in a single family home in a diverse area in the suburbs of DC. We enjoy DIY projects around our house. Our neighborhood has wonderful walking paths and great play areas. We’ve already scoped out an area in our backyard for a playset! We live close to museums, parks, theaters and sports teams. We particularly enjoy going to the Smithsonian National Zoo, Natural History Museum and taking in a show at the Kennedy Center. While our Nation’s sports teams aren’t always the best, we do enjoy rooting for the Washington Commanders and the Baltimore Orioles.

We enjoy traveling to new places and experiencing new cultures. We like to alternate where we go – one trip is somewhere warm and the next trip is to a location we haven’t been before. We particularly love the beach as we go every summer!

With Much Appreciation:

Thank you for taking the time to consider our profile and get to know us a bit. We are excited for what the future holds for all of us. We welcome an open relationship and look forward to having many conversations about what that will look like. Please feel free to check us out on Instagram to learn more about us or reach out to us via email.

All of our best,

Shana and Will