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Meet waiting families

Each of the prospective adoptive families in our waiting family pool hopes to build a genuine, lifelong relationship with their adopted child’s biological family and to raise their child in an open adoption that centers the child’s needs and best interests. Each family is carefully screened and participates in an extensive education and preparation process to ensure they feel ready to parent a child in an open adoption.

We have always wanted to have a family through adoption, and appreciate how open adoption allows for so many people to play unique and important roles in our child’s life.

Maureen and Adam

We dated in high school and went to Junior/Senior Banquet (prom) together but lost touch after high school. We reconnected years later and were so excited to start dating again. We are each other’s soul mates and best friends.

Chris and Kelly

We’re David and Jesse – a pair of sweet, would-be dads living in Seattle, with a rascally dog named Alvin along for the adventure. We’re excited and humbled by the opportunity to become parents.

David and Jesse

We hope to build a strong and lasting relationship with our child’s birth family and look forward to all the joys that come with being one big extended family.

Ben and Robin

I want to be a parent because I want to help a child figure out who they are and how to live the life they want. I'm invested in having an open adoption because I want my child to be able to explore all facets of themselves.

Melissa

We value the role that our future child’s birth parents will have in their child’s life. We seek to approach our relationship with them with the utmost authenticity, respect, sincerity, and adaptability.

Michael and Stephanie

I live an active, fun, responsible lifestyle, and can’t wait to have a child to love, to teach, and to help grow and develop. My most treasured “things” in life are my relationships.

Alyssa

Although we love this life we have created, we have yearned to experience the joy of parenting a little one together.

Elsa and Linden

We will always hold our child’s birth family in the highest place of honor. We look forward to continuing old traditions, making new ones, and are always excited for a road trip to make visits happen.

Drew and Tom

We are Stephanie and Mike, a couple of nerds in Snohomish County. We met in 2017 while playing video games online with friends. We get out to a variety of local comic conventions, art shows, and Renaissance festivals each year.

Stephanie and Mike

We know open adoption is right for us because we have seen the value in our child understanding why and how we became a family.

David and Raphi

When it came to parenting options for two women, adoption always felt the most consistent with our values. We feel excited to learn about our child, to discover their dreams and interests, and to allow that to help shape us as parents.

Ashley and Amanda

We are a loving couple of 15 years who live in Oregon. We are excited to raise a child in an open, supportive family structure as we take on the responsibility of raising a kind, compassionate child.

Sarah and Ben

We are so pleased that you are taking the time to get a glimpse into who we are. We are committed to this process and building connections with our child’s birth family. “We are all in this together” might sound cheesy, but it is very true.

Leah and Nathan

We believe open adoption is the best path for us because we want our child to have the opportunity to connect with their own history. Our relationship centers around openness and honesty, and pursuing an open adoption aligns with our values.

Heather and Mason

Open adoption aligns with our values of helping a child discover who they are through love and a supportive community. Our biggest wish is to build a family where our child can grow up knowing where they came from in order to nurture who they will become.

Orion and Martha

Life isn’t easy for anyone, but it’s made better with care, compassion, curiosity, and plenty of fun. That’s the family we are and the family we want to build as parents.

Kathryn and Kate

Open adoption is the way we have chosen to grow our family and we are fully prepared for all the challenges and blessings that choice brings with it. We hope this will also be the beginning of a close friendship and the discovery of a kindred soul or two.

Jesse and Nadja

We truly love and enjoy being with each other and we challenge each other to do things that make us grow. We will bring all these traits to parenting and to the open adoption.

Ross and Lacey

Our parenting experience so far has completely redefined what family means to us – we fully embrace the beauty and messiness of extending love and welcoming new people into our family. We are excited and curious to do it again.

Kara and Elaine

Becoming parents via open adoption is appealing because family and community are inseparable. We have progressive ideas about parenthood, highly value empathy and social justice, and would always do our best to raise a child in light of these values.

Mara and Jeremy

We’ve wholeheartedly embraced the open adoption process, believing it offers the adopted child the greatest opportunity for love and connection. We eagerly anticipate the journey of learning and loving alongside our expanded family!

Michael and Elizabeth

We are excited to become parents and to expand our family through open adoption. We look forward to building relationships with our child’s biological family and fostering meaningful connections for them to their roots.

Devlin and Miles

We both feel that family is very important. Our dream is that our child’s first family becomes a part of our extended family, sharing in their joys, successes, and milestones as they grow up.

Julie and Tyler

We love harder because we know life is fragile and precious. We love deeper because we know tomorrow isn’t promised. Life can be complicated and messy and wonderful. We know it and we embrace it.

Holly and Brittany

We met at music school in 2007 and learned early on that we have a lot in common: we both play piano, love the arts, and enjoy reading, eating great food, running, traveling to new places, and playing board games.

Andy and Bob

We are drawn to open adoption as it resonates with our values. We are committed to supporting our child in knowing where they came from, and building connections so our child will know who they are as they grow into adulthood.

Elena and Zac

Family is everything for us and we know the value of both biological and “found” family. Our hope is that through open adoption, we’ll be able to realize our dream of growing our family with our child’s best interests at the center.

Cem and Christie

It is important to us that our child develops a strong sense of identity, found through a deep connection to place: their home, their communities, and their history.

Rebecca and Dom

We hope to have a strong, supportive community for our child and we quickly recognized open adoption would be the best option to meet that goal. We want as many loving people in our child's life as we can have.

Robert and Thomas

It will be a privilege to welcome our child’s birth family into our lives and we will offer the same compassion and love that our own families have given to us.

Kaitlin and Jonathan

When deciding how to grow our family, adoption was the first path that we have chosen to pursue. We hope for a relationship with our child’s birth family that is open, honest, and mutually respectful, where we grow with one another.

Shawn and Michelle

We're drawn to open adoption because we have seen how important it is for a child to know where they came from and stay connected. There is no limit to the size of our chosen family, and we are excited to bring our child’s birth parents into that group.

Will and Michael

Our paths intertwined when we were about 8 years old, and blossomed into a beautiful partnership in 2018. Our hearts are overflowing with love and excitement at the prospect of expanding our family through open adoption.

Travis and Rachael

Family is important to us! Adoption has been our first choice for expanding our family since we met and our journey to this point has given us a pretty expansive perspective on what “family” means.

Josh and Emily

We’ve been together for over 21 years, and we love each other more than words could ever say. We’ve had thousands of adventures together, and welcoming a child into our family would be the greatest and most joyful adventure of our lives.

Austin and Jonathan

We treat each other with respect, trust, and love and hope to share our values and passions with our future child and their birth family. It is important to us that our future child’s birth family will always feel welcomed and included as part of our home and family.

Allison and Seth

Adoption has been a long-time vision of ours and one that dovetails nicely with our open home and open hearts. Our Thanksgiving dinner table is already a wonderful medley of biological family and chosen family and we would joyfully welcome a birth family into this space.

Emily and Peter

As a couple, we have always planned to adopt through open adoption. We hope to be able to have a strong connection with our child’s birth family that allows our child to flourish. We look forward to building family memories together with their birth family not just on holidays, birthdays, but also the days in between.

Randy and Jenn

Pursuing an open adoption is important to us, as our child will benefit from having a better understanding of their origins. We would be honored to provide a child with the best upbringing we can and share our love with them.

Laura and Patrick

We have been married for seven years and are hoping to expand our family through open adoption. We hope to create a family that is centered on love, trust, respect, and openness. We want our child’s birth family to feel welcomed and valued within our family.

Jason and Rachael

We believe love makes a family, and we are ready to welcome a child into our lives with open hearts. Openness is important to us because we want our child to feel surrounded by love—not just from us, but from their birth family as well.

Nick and Amy

We were drawn to an open adoption because we feel that it’s in the best interest of a child to have as much of a connection to their birth family, culture and heritage as possible. We value our diverse community and are glad that a child raised by us would be exposed to people diverse in age, race, gender identity and sexual orientation.

Jessica and Wayne

We are very outdoorsy as a family and love exploring new places - especially National and State parks. We are both excited to become parents and to create new adventures, hobbies, and traditions as we grow as a family!

Mel and Kris

We hope to continue building our family and for our children to have lives full of opportunities for adventure, joy, love, and memory making. We look forward to forming a relationship with a birth family that is welcoming, embraces our differences, and supports connection.

Natalie and Hexar

We are two lifelong learners that consider ourselves very fortunate to love the work we do. With our enjoyment of hosting gatherings, we would like to welcome our child’s birth family into our community.

Evan and Paige

Our home is filled with warmth, laughter, and a sense of calm. We’re excited to welcome a child into our lives and community and are committed to building a relationship with our child’s birth family that is grounded in honesty, trust, and mutual respect.

Sean and Kyle

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