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Featured Family: Guy and Carolyn
What does "Family Life" mean to you?
Family Life is being able to spend quality time with one another supporting hobbies and interests of one another. It is being supportive of one another in good times and bad. It is a positive atmosphere to foster growth for all involved. Having fun with one another should be a high priority.
Describe your childhood:
Adoptive Mom?
Carolyn grew up an only child in a suburban neighborhood. There were lots of other children in the community and she had many friends she grew up through school with. Her parents divorced while she was young but remained close and a positive influence in her life. Softball, ballet and dance were an important part of her childhood.
Adoptive Dad?
Guy grew up in a military home and moved around the country every few years. He attended a private school for the primary school years and a public high school. Through the years he acquired new friends with each move. Baseball and soccer played important roles while growing up.
Tell us about your home?
We currently live in a 3 bed 2 bath home on a 5 acre parcel of open land. We have 3 cats and a dog which all have been adopted from homeless situations. We raise a small garden in front of our house and bottle raise baby calves on the back 2 acres.
When you have a 3-day weekend, what do you like to do?
By the nature of our jobs this happens about once a month. Often we spend the weekend working with a hobby or volunteering time for some cause. We also enjoy traveling somewhere far enough away to say we’ve been away, but close enough that we can be home within 3 to 4 hours. Several times a year we travel to the beach at Nags Head and stay with members of her family.
Do you have pets? If so tell us about them?
We have 3 cats and a dog. All three cats have been adopted off the farm or picked up from the side of the road. The dog is a beagle named Belle. She was picked up from a rescue shelter we were performing some volunteer work for. She replaced another beagle Guy had for 17 years. Both of us have had pets in the home since we were children.
What is your favorite food?
Rib Eye Steaks, Tacos, Pastrami Sandwiches, Spaghetti with homemade sauce and Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream
What do you hope to teach your children?
How to be a productive member of society. To earn an honest living and to live an honest life.
Do you play any musical instruments?
No
Describe your neighborhood?
We live in a neighborhood that used to be farm land. Every house is on its own 5 acre block. There are many children living on either side of our home. People come from a wide range of life from auto mechanic to a sheriff’s deputy.
Share something about your spouse that only you know:
No Answer.
Describe the last romantic thing you did together?
We attend a day spa together and signed up for couples massage followed by dinner.
What will you tell your child about their birthmother?
We plan to tell them how much their birth mother loved them and how hard it is to make the decision to give up your child is.
It's Daddy's day - what activity do you want to share with your child?
Play some baseball or soccer, get a burger at the local diner together, make homemade ice cream on the back porch and invite the neighbors over to share in some.
Do you plan on sharing with your child what their birth parents were like?
This will depend on the birthmother’s desire for the child to know about her. Should she wish for the child to learn about her as they mature it is our hope to be able to answer questions about their background.
What kind of education are you hoping to provide for your child - Private or Public?
There are 2 wonderful private schools located in our area and a good public school 5 miles from where we reside. At this time we are leaning towards the public school system.
How did you come to the decision of adoption?
We are unable to have children of our own and wish for our family to grow through adoption.
What faith will you raise your child?
Christian
How will you help your child accomplish their dreams?
Encourage and support their interests as they grow. Kids desires and dreams change as they grow older and you need to support new interests as they develop in order to raise well rounded and confident children.
What kind of a relationship do you hope to build with your birthmom through her pregnancy?
We hope she gets to know us and think of us as close friends, not some couple that is going to take away her child but someone she can be close with and trust with her most precious treasure in life.
How did you meet?
Carolyn moved in to the dorm about 3 doors down from Guy mid semester one year. We started dating about a month later.
What was your relationship with your parents like?
We are both close with our parents. We all talk at least once a week to one another. Often it is more than that.
What attracted you to each other?
Our personalities just clicked when we were together. We also thought each other to be cute.
Please describe your personalities:
Adoptive Mom? Introvert, social butterfly
Adoptive Dad? Extravert, social butterfly
What are your hobbies (please share those you enjoy as individuals and those you enjoy as a couple):
Adoptive Mom? Fishing, gardening, Longaberger basket parties, baking
Adoptive Dad? Fishing, gardening, agriculture, and recently honey bees.
When you close your eyes and see yourself holding your precious baby in your arms what are your thoughts regarding the birthmother?
We hope she can be at peace with her decision to give her child a future by helping another couple start their family. If she wishes it, we hope to be able to stay in contact with this wonderful person.
How will a child enrich your life?
We both feel as if we have a lot of life experience to pass on to another generation. We watch friends and family playing with and watching their families grow and we feel like we are missing out on something great in life.
Why did you each choose the career path you decided on?
Adoptive Mom? Carolyn has always been a caretaker in her family and enjoys helping people when they are in a time of need.
Adoptive Dad? An individual already employed in the field and working for this company approached me and suggested I look into a job that was opening up. It requires someone to be mechanically inclined, self motivated and highly dependable.
What makes a birthmom special?
She is someone who gives a child life and has enough love for him/her to offer a future she cannot for whatever her reason may be. She is someone with enough love in her heart to share her child with another family who cannot have their own. She is someone wonderful.
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