Jeff and Jessica

Hello!

We’re Jeff and Jessica. We are excited to share about ourselves and our hopes for becoming parents through open adoption. Infertility created barriers to us having children earlier in our relationship, and our journey together has strengthened our sense of hope, patience in the waiting, and our love for one another. We feel deeply in our hearts that adoption is the right step to building our family, and we hope to have the opportunity to welcome both a child and their birth family into our lives.

We’ve been together since 2012 and got married in 2020.  We met during graduate school in San Francisco, and both now have careers in healthcare. Jeff grew up in the Bay Area in California. Jessica was born and raised in Oklahoma, and has also lived in Colorado and California. We now live in Portland, Oregon in a house in the hills surrounded by so many trees! Our free time is often spent enjoying being at home with our dog (Finch) and our 2 kitties (Keefe and Arthur). We cherish and appreciate the incredible beauty of the Pacific Northwest and are happy to call this place home. Jessica loves hiking, trail running with Finch, and watching movies. A few times a year, she likes to attend classes for creative things like cooking or flower arranging. Jeff is an avid climber and runner, likes to go to the movies, and appreciates relaxing at home watching basketball or listening to records. We love to cook dinner together most nights per week, take long walks in our neighborhood, and go camping during the summertime. We also love to sit by the fire with hot chocolate during the winter and always have lots and lots of silliness and laughter in our home.

We value what openness brings to adoption, and understand that open adoption relationships can look so many different ways. We want to honor what feels most comfortable and natural for everyone involved, and will keep our door open to support a child’s connections with their birth family. Whether this is through exchanging photos, sharing letters, and/or having visits, we want to create a connection that prioritizes trust, love, and respect. We want the child we raise to understand all parts of their adoption story, and we believe that an open adoption is a bridge that can connect our families and honor this child as the person who brought us all together.

Thank you,
Jeff and Jessica Mosher