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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].

Wayne and Melissa

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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,

Thank you for taking the time to learn about our family and for considering us to be parents of your child.

Through our profile we hope you can see the overwhelming love we have for each other. We are so excited to share that love with a child. We always knew we wanted to be parents and believe that God has called us to adopt. We will do everything in our power to give your little one a happy life full of opportunity, love, and laughter.

Thank you for your bravery and generosity. We pray that you find comfort and peace as you make this decision.

With love,

Melissa & Wayne

 

We met at work and became friends before we started dating. In May of 2010 we got married in front of our loved ones.

Home:

We live in a southern suburb of Saint Paul. It is a friendly community that is a quick drive to downtown Minneapolis or Saint Paul which we love. We both enjoy the quick commute to see a Twins game or a musical at the Orpheum. In our neighborhood there is a mixture of older families and younger families with small children. We are blessed to live on a cul-de-sac that neighborhood children use to play basketball and ride their bikes. We have a beautiful park and baseball field across the street that our nieces and nephews love to use when visiting. We also are only a few miles from some wonderful walking trails and a beautiful lake we often fish on.

What we enjoy:

We enjoy having fun and laughing together. We love traveling, musical theater, Twins baseball, fishing, going to the zoo, going to church, and watching movies together and we can’t wait to have a child to love and share this with.

Family Traditions

Melissa’s family celebrates Christmas together every year. Her mom always does special games or a piñata for the kids and adults. We also love getting to enjoy nature and pick out Christmas trees as a family. We also enjoy spending Summer vacations on the lake with Melissa’s whole family.

Melissa has three brothers and one sister. They see each other at least once a month and love spending time together. They are so excited for another niece or nephew to join the family.

We enjoy spending time with Wayne’s five sisters and his dad. They live in other states. We get to visit them a few times a year.

Wayne works as a Counselor/ Correctional Officer with juveniles. He enjoys helping young men change their lives. Melissa works as a teacher’s assistant and loves getting to help her students. Melissa is finishing up her degree in Social Work and plans on working as a School Social Worker. She will be home during the Summer and have flexibility in the afternoon. Melissa’s mother will help with childcare.

Meet Jasmin

We love animals. We have a German Shepherd named Jasmin. She loves children and plays with our five year old niece when she visits. She is so gentle with children and is really a big baby. All the kids call her Jazzy.

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