Sharon and Steve
We are Steve, Sharon and Daniel and we are really looking forward to welcoming a baby girl into our family. We would like to welcome you to be part of the adventure and invite you to read our story in order to get to know us a little….
We have been together for over 13 years. We met and married in Houston, Texas and honeymooned in the Pacific NW. Falling in love with the area, we moved here two years later. In December 2006, we adopted Daniel with Open Adoption and Family Services.
Our relationship is based on being lovers, best friends and parents of two year old Daniel. We find it very easy to talk about issues or problems with each other, and we spend time with each other every evening catching up on “news of the day” as we call it. We view our family as a team, and so we spend lots of time together, doing things such as shopping, parenting, visiting local farms, cooking, keeping up our home, playing, gardening and traveling. Our photo was taken at the PlayMobil FunPark in Germany.
We are both peace-loving people, and consequently, we are seldom argumentative. Steve is a peacemaker by nature and Sharon’s style is to use humor to diffuse the tension. Steve is loyal, supportive, and passionate about his beliefs. Sharon is creative, spiritual, intuitive, practical, independent and a little shy. Daniel is a cute, bright and spirited toddler who enjoys music, books, trains and exploring the world around him.
Steve works as a computer programmer and Sharon is an occupational therapist working with young children. Both of us love our jobs, which offer us flexibility for raising children. Sharon recognizes the importance of early childhood development and bonding, and so she plans to spend lots of time with the new baby, as she did when Daniel was adopted. Currently Daniel attends a community-based daycare close to our home. He loves “school”, has many friends, and is constantly amazing us with the new things he is learning every day.
Our university city features many cultural and recreational opportunities. We live in a medium-sized home on 2/3 of an acre (about the size of a football field), about 10 minutes from the city center. Our backyard is absolutely huge and planted with an abundance of yummy berries, fruit trees and organic vegetables. At the far end of our backyard is a pond where little ducklings swim in the spring. There’s plenty of room for young children and pets to run and play, with lots of space for a tree house and play structures in the yard.
We will nurture our children’s developing skills and interests, and we appreciate the fact that we can learn from our children as they can learn from us. Books, music, art, computers, cooking, healthy food, organic gardening, and creativity in all its forms are important to us, and we will share all of this with our children. We will raise our children to respect nature and the environment, to love and care for others and to honor diversity. We will teach responsibility while celebrating the children’s stages of growth and development. We share meals together as a family, and our children will take part in household duties as part of the family team (until they rebel, of course!).
Adding a baby girl to our family will cause us to further grow and change, and we look forward with great anticipation to the expansion of our family. Open adoption is attractive to us because we value the role(s) of birthparent(s), and if you choose adoption we would maintain an on-going relationship with you and any other birth family members. We have a close relationship with both of Daniel’s birthparents and his birth grandmother. We believe that children deserve to be loved by as many people as possible and to have special lifelong relationships with all who love and care for them. We look forward to welcoming you into our lives, and we want you to know that we are committed to working together for the highest good of the child.
Blessings and thank you for considering us,
Steve, Sharon and Daniel
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