What We Are Looking For
What We Want To Grow Our Family
The idea of describing the ideal situation or person is weird to us. We know that people come from all walks of life and we don't want to limit or cast any kind of expectations of who we are looking for. It may be easiest to share a few things about who we are and hope that the right person finds us.
We are a multiethnic family (Asian, Latina, Caucasian) and diversity is something we value. We speak several languages at differing levels of proficiency (Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Cantonese, French, English) and learning new languages is important to us. Although Echo is 7 years old and we are hoping she gets to be a big sister, she would be happy with a sibling at any age. According to the books we have read and articles we have studied on the subject, the best adoption outcomes for both the birth parents and the adopted child is open adoption; we hope to be able to give this child every oportunity in the world and that includes feeling secure in who they are and where they come from. We know that it isn't always possible, but that would be our ideal.
Chelsea has many cousins who came into the family through adoption and it's made her life better because of it. We've always known we were meant to help grow our family through this route.