Drew and Tom

Hello and thanks for reading our introduction letter!
We are Drew and Tom and we live outside a larger city in the Pacific Northwest. Drew is a program manager for a nonprofit and works from home, and Tom is an elementary school teacher at a public school in the city.

We both grew up in coastal towns in Massachusetts and went to college in Maine, but we met here in Oregon in 2013. We enjoy time at home: gardening, cooking good meals, listening to records, playing board games and reading by our woodstove. We love hosting friends and family, live music, cool art, and traveling to new places. We got married in 2017 and moved to a house on a wooded acre of land at the end of a quiet road.

Drew is the social glue in several of our friend and family circles, and is always planning the next get together. He loves an afternoon coffee with company, collecting stories from friends and their daily lives. He is skeptical of astrology but is a definite Virgo!  He likes learning how things work, and building things in our woodworking shed. Drew worked in restaurants for many years and loves to cook for others. He will be the kind of dad that gets everyone to rake leaves and then makes a great soup for dinner.

Tom is passionate about his work and hobbies. He’s been an elementary school teacher for over a decade, cares deeply about his students and is always thinking up fun and creative projects for his classroom. His students love being in his class and all our friends wish their kids could have him as a teacher. He’s an avid bird watcher, beekeeper, kayaker and reader. He spends time outside with his binoculars and camera every single day and fills his free time with bird watching and camping trips. 

We’ve always wanted to be parents. We feel strongly that open adoption is what is best for adopted children and look forward to growing our family to include not only a child, but a birth family as well. We want our child to know their full story and feel empowered by having more adults in their life who love and support them. We want our child to know about their birth family’s background, family culture and health history. We will always hold our child’s birth family in the highest place of honor. We look forward to building new relationships and traditions. We are always excited for a road trip and can imagine traveling to make visits happen.

We are both close with our parents and siblings, and even though we live far from many of them, we value and prioritize quality time with family. We have close friends here in the Northwest who have become our family over the years. Everyone is excited for us to become dads and they all want to be part of creating a wonderful life for any child that joins our family.

We wish you the best,
Drew and Tom