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Nickname: Eric and Katy

Married Since: July 31, 2019

Pets: Yes

Stay at Home Parent: Yes

Other Adopted Children at Home: No

Other Biological Children at Home: No

We are a couple that loves adventure and travel just as much as we love spending time together at home with our dogs. We can’t wait to share all of these experiences with a future child – everything from hiking and traveling, to attending sporting events and concerts, to having quiet movie nights together at home.

Eric and Katelyn

from Michigan

 

Eric

Ancestry: Irish, Lithuanian, German

Religion: Not Religious

Occupation: Banker

Education: Masters Degree

Hobbies: Playing and watching sports, video games, reading, traveling

Katelyn

Ancestry: Polish, Italian

Religion: Not Religious

Occupation: Yoga instructor / math tutor

Education: Masters Degree

Hobbies: Yoga, reading, working out, indoor rock climbing, traveling, hiking, photography

Baby

Preferred Ethnicity of Baby: African American / Caucasian, Caucasian / Asian, Caucasian, Caucasian / Hispanic, Caucasian / Indian, Caucasian / Middle Eastern, Caucasian / Native American, Caucasian / Pacific Islander

Preferred Gender of Baby: Either

Religion Child To Be Raised: Not Religious

Favorites

Eric

Hobbies
Reading, playing sports, video games
Sports I like to Play
Baseball and soccer
Authors I like to Read
Brandon Sanderson and Robert Jackson Bennett
Sports Teams
Detroit Tigers and Detroit Red Wings
Favorite Season:
Fall
Favorite Video Game
Ocarina of Time
Historical Figure I'd like to Meet:
Ernie Harwell (former Detroit Tigers radio announcer)
Childhood Nickname:
Ernie (after Ernie Harwell) because I talked too much about baseball

Katelyn

Random Fact
I'm scared of heights, but I go indoor rock climbing every week (and I've tried indoor skydiving)
Can't Live Without
Dark chocolate and green tea
Current Hobby
Learning Spanish
Favorite Authors
Charlotte McConaghy and Riley Sager
Best Concerts
Three Pianos Concert (Andrew McMahon, Something Corporate, Jack's Mannequin) and Marvelous 3 (Butch Walker)
Favorite Sports Team
Detroit Tigers
Favorite Season
Summer
Inspired By
Nature
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From Us to You

We want to start with saying how immensely grateful we are for you. If chosen, your child will truly be the center of our lives. He/she will be part of an incredibly loving family, and will have two built-in best friends in the form of our fur-babies!

We are open to hearing from you as to what type of relationship you’d like to have with your child. Then, we can work together to find the best plan that works for all of us, with healthy boundaries set in place.

Your story will be shared with your child with respect and gratitude. We will be as open and honest with your child as is developmentally appropriate.

With love,
Katy and Eric

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Why We Are Choosing to Adopt

We have always felt that adoption was right for us, regardless of whether we ever had biological children. We have so much love to offer to a child, and we want to provide the absolute best life for him/her. It’s hard to even put into words how much we look forward to providing a safe and loving home for a child.

We are absolutely thrilled to be adopting, and it’s safe to say that what we are most excited for are the experiences we will share and the memories that we will create with our future child. We can’t wait to see him/her smile, laugh, have fun, experience new things, and pursue dreams. We can’t wait to travel with him/her, experiencing beautiful places, music, and cultures throughout the US and the world, together. We can’t wait for him/her to meet everyone in our family, to know that so many people that love him/her right from the day he/she was born.

Our Role As Parents:

Our role as parents is to unconditionally love your child and provide him/her with every possible opportunity that we can. We want to teach your child throughout his/her life, everything from morals to how to fix things to sports, and everything in between. We will be your child’s biggest fan, encouraging them to pursue their dreams, as well as be the comforting arms that he/she seeks out when feeling sad or disappointed or scared.

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Lifestyle

Our daily life now is wonderful in its simplicity, with exciting adventures mixed in.

We spend lots of time together reading, watching our favorite TV shows, and playing with our dogs.

We are lucky enough to have two family cottages to visit during the summer, spending time by the lake with our favorite people.

We love to travel (often several times every year), both within and outside of the United States. We make it a point to visit national parks and go on hikes whenever we travel. Traveling is such an amazing way to learn about the world, other cultures, and to see firsthand how beautiful our world is.

We dream of sharing a life filled with happiness, learning, sunshine-filled days outside, playing with the pups, family time at the lake, exploring beautiful places around the world, and quiet moments together at the end of each day with a future child.

Since we love to travel, we thought it’d be cool to share some fun facts about our trips!

  • Our first trip together was to Denver, Colorado
  • We have three maps that track all of the countries, US National Parks, and MLB stadiums that we visit
  • We got married in Olympic National Park in Washington state
  • Being in the mountains and by the ocean are our favorite places to be
  • Our goal is to travel to all seven continents
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About Katy by Eric

Katy and I were introduced through a mutual friend. The night we met, I made a terrible joke about baseball that was not at all funny and would only make sense to a very small amount of people. She laughed anyway. I knew right away that she was going to accept me for me, no matter what.

I know she’s going to be a great mother because of the way I see her interact with the students she tutors. She is a math tutor for kids from junior high all the way through college. The care and patience she shows with the kids is so genuine. She truly wants to help them and make them better. Not only do the kids love her, but the parents do too. I can’t count the number of times she’s tutored multiple kids from the same families.

If she’s even half as good at being a mother, she’ll be amazing.

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About Eric by Katy

What initially drew me to Eric was his sense of humor and kindness, as well as his love of sports. He is a wonderful human with a heart of gold. He’s smart, hard-working, motivated, and empathetic. He cares deeply about his friends and family (and about our pups!).

He sees all of me – the independence, strength, calm, as well as the parts of me that are fearful and cautious. A story that perfectly shows that is: we were hiking to Sky Pond in Colorado and had to climb up boulders on the side of a waterfall. I was terrified (though I chose this hike), so he stood behind me and supported me on the way up, then went down first to help guide me down.

Eric will be all of this and more with your child. He is the best at making others smile and feel accepted exactly as they are.

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Our Home

We are so lucky to live in a great community, with many wonderful neighbors and a park within the subdivision. We work together to make our house feel like a home, with a cute hang out area under a gazebo in our backyard, gardens around the house, a reading/yoga room, and a comfy living room with soft lights (perfect for movie nights!). We can’t wait to make more memories here, seeing the joy in everything through a child’s eyes.

The city’s community center (aquatic center, ice rink, library), Detroit Zoo, Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, SEA LIFE Michigan Aquarium, Comerica Park, and Little Caesars Arena, are all nearby as well!

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Our Family

Your child would be welcomed into a very excited, very loving family and “village.” Two grandparents live directly across the street and will be able to spend time with your child daily should you choose us. Two grandparents, two aunts and an uncle live less than an hour away, and are all absolutely thrilled to welcome a child into the family. Some of our closest friends have already named themselves “aunt” and “uncle” because they are so excited at the possibility of being part of your child’s life. Perhaps describing everyone as excited is underselling how they feel – many of our family members and friends cried happy tears when we told them that we plan to adopt a child.

Our Relationship With Our Parents:

The love, support, and guidance from our parents throughout our lives helped us to become the people that we are today. They continue to set an amazing example of what being a parent means: unconditional love, the necessity of both fun and structure, the balance between support and fostering independence, teaching us about the important things in life, and, most importantly, the best hugs.

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Our Traditions

Our traditions revolve around spending time with the people we love. If we could paint a picture of our time spent together as a family, it would look a bit like this:

In the spring and summer, we spend time by the lake, enjoying a home-cooked meal while the breeze blows in off of the water. After we eat, we sit to watch the sun set and occasionally set up chairs around a bonfire. Long, warm days lend themselves to quieter evenings, where we chat and laugh about whatever is going on in our lives, sports, and the dogs (of course!).

In the fall and winter, we go to our parents’ homes to celebrate the holidays. Spirits are high with the excitement of the holidays, yet there is a sense of coziness and calm with the fireplace lit and the Christmas tree lights twinkling in the background. We share a delicious meal together before settling in to relax together, often watching whatever sports happen to be on and catching up with one another.

We hope to one day share all of these traditions with a future child, while also creating new traditions and memories of our own, just like our parents did for us.

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Our Pets

Rainy: A little fluff of a mixed terrier, rescued from rural Texas. Rainy is the boss of our household, despite being the smallest member of our little family.

Luna: A boxer/pitbull/Labrador mix, rescued from northern Michigan. Luna is the sweetest, happiest, 50-pound lap dog, with a tail that never stops wagging.

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Our Promise to You

Becoming parents will change our lives in every way, and we can’t wait for that opportunity. A future child will be the center of our world.

We are truly grateful for the life that we have, the life that allows us to be surrounded by family, to live comfortably, to travel, to pursue our hobbies and dreams, and to be successful, and consider ourselves extremely lucky. Yet it is our goal to provide an even better life for a child, just as our parents strove to provide us with lives even better than theirs.

We want to share everything in our lives with a child, from the quiet and routine moments of daily life to the exciting and extraordinary moments that make for the most amazing memories.

Thank you for reading our story; it means more to us than you’ll ever know. No matter the arrangements we all decide on for the future, please know that you’re so important in our lives, and your story would be told with respect and honor.

Our promise to you is that if chosen, we would raise your child in a home filled with unconditional love and support. He/she would get to experience the beauty of the world, find joy in both the little and big moments in life, and be given every opportunity possible. We will raise our future child to be a student of the world, to treat others with respect and understanding, and to lead with kindness and love.

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