dear expectant mother

Dear Expectant Mother,

We hope this letter finds you in good health and spirits. While we cannot begin to imagine what you are going through or how difficult this decision is, we are profoundly grateful that you are considering our family as a home for your child.

If you choose us, your child will be surrounded by love, not only from us but also from our extended family. We value the person your child will be, and we are so excited to help them discover who they are, what they are good at, and what they love. We want your child to have the best chance to succeed and to know they have the support to define success for themselves. We value education and will do our best to give your child the broadest and strongest foundation for their journey into adulthood.

We want your child to enjoy the experiences we enjoyed growing up, from camping to spending time with grandparents, playing in the ocean, or getting messy in the kitchen. And we want to discover new things to enjoy together as a family. We will value the culture your child comes from and will do our best to include that culture in our life as a family. We know we can’t promise that your child’s whole life will be joy, but we do promise to be there through the hard times as well as the good and to love them with everything we are.