Frank & Renee

Dear Birthparents, we want you to know how grateful we are to you for considering adoption for your child as the way to assure a positive beginning to his or her future. We respect the courage, love and concern you are showing by choosing this option. We would like to adopt a Caucasian baby boy or girl. We want to introduce ourselves by letting you know a bit about our backgrounds, family, interests, values and dreams. We have very positive feelings about adoption and we are looking forward to parenting our third child. We hope that what we share will help you to feel confident about who we are and lets you know that we will sincerely love your child as our own if you grant us the honor.

About Us…

Hello, I'm Frank. I am the oldest of three sons, who grew up in a wonderful, loving, two-parent home with an extremely close relationship with my grandparents. A sense of honesty, responsibility, hard work and family values was instilled in me from the time I was a young child. I’m a WVU graduate and earned a Master’s from Marshall. I am an associate pastor and counselor and work part time a few hours a month for the federal government as an expert witness. I have a flexible schedule and work out of my home office a couple days per week, allowing me extra time with my wife and children. I enjoy sports (particularly football), playing the trumpet, coin collecting, gardening, reading, and spending time with my family. I enjoy outdoor activities such as hiking, fishing and picnicking.

Hi, I'm Renee. I grew up with a very loving mom and dad and am the oldest of four daughters. I always lived close to my grandparents and developed a close relationship with them and was fortunate to have my mother stay at home with us. I am a college graduate and worked in the medical field until we adopted our first child. Since then I have been a full-time mom and feel blessed to be at home with our son who is 9 and our daughter who is 5. I'm very glad to be living out my dream of being a stay-home mom. I enjoy cooking, reading, volleyball, picnicking, swimming, gardening and visiting family and friends. I especially enjoy our quality family time. My husband's flexible schedule enables us to go to a park, take a spur of the moment trip or just play with our son and daughter in our back yard. We also enjoy a trip to the beach each year. Sometimes my husband and I like to enjoy a quiet night out on our own.

Our Life Together…

We met and married in 1993 and through the good times and the rough ones, including experiencing infertility, our love and relationship remains trusting and solid. We actually have found infertility to be a blessing, because we have become adoptive parents and are raising our family, and that is what we desired the most. We truly hope to enlarge our family by way of another adoption. We feel it is important to cultivate our relationship as husband and wife in order to try and instill in our children the need for healthy relationships that foster unconditional love.

We have both loved children from the time we were young and have realized through the adoption of both of our children how fun, challenging and rewarding it is to help your children experience each stage of growth and development. We believe with Renee as a stay-home mom and with Frank’s flexible hours, we can provide extra nurturing that children need from their parents. We are blessed to be financially secure to have all of the necessities of life and enjoy some frills, too. We live in a wonderful neighborhood which is a great place for our children to play with plenty of space and lots of playmates. Our home is located in the city, but still has some benefits of the country. Built in 2004, it has about 3800 square feet with 5 bedrooms and 3½ bathrooms and sits on a beautiful wooded lot nearly an acre in size. We enjoy looking at the stars or watching and feeding the squirrels, deer, rabbits, and birds that frequent our backyard.

Our Miracles…

In 1998, our dream came true through the adoption of our then 8½ month old son. He is a very beautiful, happy and bubbly little boy whose personality seems to light up the world of everyone around him. Our friends and neighbors just love him. In fact he's been called "Mr. Personality." He's very healthy and energetic and is most always smiling. A few of his favorite things include; playing ball, reading books, riding his bike, exploring the outdoors, playing video games, going to the pool, playing with friends and throwing rocks. He plays well independently when he needs to and also enjoys every ounce of interaction he gets. He will be in fourth grade in the fall 2007.

We were truly blessed again by the adoption of our daughter in July 2002. She was born several weeks premature and came home with all sorts of gadgets and monitors attached which was particularly challenging although we worked through it quite well. Our little girl came home a couple of weeks prior to her actual due date and has continued to flourish ever since. She has a sweet bashfulness about her yet is very social. Her strong will and determination have helped her along the way. We feel these two factors along with lots of love have helped bring her to the perfect health she's in today. She enjoys modeling her shoes and purses, playing with her dolls, making coffee in her play kitchen for her dad, reading books with her brother, dancing, and eating peanut butter & jelly. She loves going to preschool a couple of days a week.

Our children adore each other and they have a strong bond of love between them. They play great together. You can just see their face light up when the other comes into the room. We believe this bond and happiness comes from the love we share and the many prayers that were prayed and are still being prayed for a new baby brother or sister. We have a lot of hopes and dreams for our children. With the loving environment we provide, we hope they will develop a genuine love for God and love and respect for the people around them. We hope that they will grow into responsible adults who will have the self-confidence to tackle whatever challenges come their way. It is hard to say if words can express the happiness that parenting has brought us. We are really hoping that we can have the privilege of sharing our love with another child and giving our son and daughter the opportunity to share their love with another sibling. We feel this would only make our life as a family flourish.

We are very proud and happy to be adoptive parents. In fact, we desire children so much that we traveled to the other side of the world to adopt our son from Russia in the middle of the winter. Now, we don't think that makes us heroes, but rather, we feel our lives have been enriched because of the opportunity to be parents. We want to do what we can to help our children develop a sense of pride about who they are and how they entered our family.

We can barely imagine what a difficult decision process this must be, but please be totally assured that your child will grow and develop in a nurturing, secure and loving Christian home. We hope you will contact our social worker who will share with you 20 pages of pictures of our home and family life.

Sincerely,

Frank & Renee

Please contact our social worker at the Children's Home Society:

Julia Kesler -

1-800-854-1544

 

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