Hal & Heidi

Hello, we’re Hal & Heidi. Thank you for making our dreams to become a complete family come true! We are not able to have our own biological children, but we will treat the precious gift that you are giving us as our own and with the highest gratitude to you. We can offer many good things for your wonderful baby, the greatest of which is love. You can rest assured that your child will have security, comfort and parents who love with all of their being. We are committed to giving our utmost care and to teaching your child how to live a good life and to respect and love others. We will share the many blessings that we have enjoyed in this world with your child and will give him or her every opportunity to succeed.

In the Beginning

We met in medical school. After dating for 1½ years we knew we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together. We celebrated our wedding with friends and family in 1997. The evening was perfect and the reception was more fun than we could have hoped. We spent our honeymoon in Disney World, one of our favorite places to vacation! We celebrated our 10 th wedding anniversary two years ago with a road trip to New York state including Niagara Falls.

About Us

We share many interests and hobbies. We are in the healthcare field so we have a special understanding of each other’s work. We enjoy talking about the challenges of our jobs and supporting each other every day. In addition to spending a lot of quality time with each other at home, whether sitting on the porch or taking a stroll around our beautiful neighborhood, we also enjoy getting out and doing new things. We like spending time with both of our parents through visiting, and we have also enjoyed traveling around the United States and to other countries with our families, often with both sets of parents on the same trip. We also both enjoy sporting events and the outdoors, and recently bought a new camper. We look forward to using it to introduce our new child to the beauty of nature and the fun of traveling around the country.

We feel we have a lot to give a child. We are fortunate to be financially able to provide a very comfortable lifestyle and security for a child. More importantly, we have abundant love, a good sense of humor and an appreciation for both work and play. Over the past 12 years, we have enjoyed a loving and fun-filled marriage, and our relationship has only grown stronger over time. We still have as much fun together now as we did when we first started dating.

We hope to be able to role model and teach the things that have meant so much to us in our lives such as the importance of a good education, being responsible, respecting others, and being dedicated to personal goals. We have many wonderful friends who have children who would love to have a new playmate and friend. Our parents are eager to welcome a new grandchild into the family and are looking forward to sharing their lives with our child. We are dedicated to raising a child in this loving environment to be a good and self-sufficient man or woman, and we expect that all these things that we have to offer will only be multiplied by the joy of a child in our home.

Because we always knew that we wanted to have children, we have set many things up to be able to have a lot of quality time at home as parents. Both of our jobs involve taking care of patients on a part-time basis, while we also teach students and write medical papers. This allows us a great deal of flexibility, so that we can even stay at home and do some of our work on the computer. In addition, we live within a half of a mile of our workplace, and there is a highly-rated daycare program in our office. So, we will be either at home with or near our child every day before he or she starts school. We both are looking forward to taking time off and taking advantage of our work flexibility to spend time with our baby.

About Hal

Hal is a dedicated physician. His work is very satisfying because he is able to do many different things every day. He feels rewarded by helping sick people cope with their problems, but he also enjoys teaching others in different health care fields to give good care to people facing serious illnesses. He feels that he was destined to help care for others from a very young age. He experienced the special bonds of having a brother who was very sick throughout all of his life and who died at a young age. This experience taught him the boundless love of a father and mother and the value of good care for sick people. He brings the memory of his experiences to work every day and tries to live up to those values he learned as a child.

Hal has many hobbies and interests. His main interest outside of his work is music, and he has enjoyed listening to a wide variety of music going back to his childhood. He enjoys writing songs on the guitar and playing music with friends. He fully intends to introduce his son or daughter to the fun of music and being creative. He is a handyman around the house, and he appreciates all the things that his father taught him as a child to understand how things work and how to repair broken household items. He wants to teach our daughter or son the same skills to be able to use as an adult.

About Heidi

Heidi is also a dedicated physician. She takes great pleasure in caring for other people in her work, and her patients think very highly of her. Although she encounters many sad things in her daily work, her personality is bright and cheerful, and she brings comfort to many people who are suffering every day. Her experience at work reinforces her belief that it is important to teach a child to understand where people are coming from and to look on the bright side of life even when things aren’t perfect.

Heidi’s hobbies include gardening, reading, photography, and she has recently taken up painting. She enjoys hiking in the NC mountains and looks forward to regular camping trips with their new camper. She truly enjoys outdoor activities, and she wants to be sure that our child is encouraged to be active and to spend time outdoors on a regular basis, especially nowadays when many children have unhealthy lifestyles.

Heidi has many friends all around the United States, and she still has family members in Europe. She enjoys spending time with family and friends, and she hopes to introduce her child to the fun of travel and meeting new people.

Extended Family

We have a close family that we see often. Both sets of parents live just a state away and enjoy spending time with us and each other. Heidi’s mother and father are recently retired, and Hal’s have been retired for several years. They are all healthy and active, and they are all extremely excited to welcome a new member of the family.

Our families are also special in that they enjoy spending time with each other. Many holidays are spent together alternating yearly on who hosts the festivities. We have enjoyed traveling together as a family as well. Heidi’s brother, sister-in-law and nephew also live one state away. Although Hal’s only brother passed away 18 years ago, his memory is alive and well and has taught him and his parents how precious life is.

Fun Times Together

We have had too many great memories to count. While we enjoy spending time at home and in the local area, we also enjoy traveling to many destinations in the US and abroad. We enjoy taking cruises, going hiking, and taking road trips. We recently took our new camper on its first camping trip to a state park in SC with both sets of parents. Even though it rained we had a great time, and Hal’s dad put on a delicious fish fry for everyone. We also enjoy sporting events, particularly NASCAR auto racing. Hal grew up enjoying racing and introduced Heidi to the sport while they were dating, and she has been hooked ever since. We have enjoyed both watching and attending races with friends and family.

Our Home

We live in a spacious home in an established neighborhood. We know all of our neighbors and feel a strong sense of community. Our home is very close to schools, parks and our workplace. We have a large deck and a fenced in yard that is ideal for children. We have 2 friendly cats (Comet and Cletus) that follow us around at home and will enjoy providing companionship to any new family member. Our cats have never met a stranger. They even like hanging around with our two birds, J.D. and Sherman (although we have never let the birds out of the cage around them). J.D. is a beautiful gray cockatiel that Hal found outside and could not locate her owners. She immediately became a part of our animal family, and since we wanted her to have a friend, we bought Sherman, a cute blue parakeet, so that they could play together. Both our cats and our birds have provided a lot of entertainment to small children visiting us.

Our Faith/Values

We are committed to teaching our child by example as much as possible to live a morally upright life and to have due respect for God and for other people. Once a child knows right from wrong, it is important for them to know that everyone falls far short of perfection, but it is important for us to try to live better each day. We try to be tolerant of our own and others’ weaknesses and we think that is important to teach children to learn to forgive others. We intend to bring our child to the church and teach him or her the importance of regular reflection on what God has done for us. We understand that people are very diverse and have many different ways of doing things that we respect. We value working to make a positive impact on the world. All of these things will be a part of our training of a child in the kind of person he or she should be in life.

About Adoption

We cannot imagine all the things you are facing right now, but we respect and admire the decision that you are making to do the best thing for your child. Your baby will be cherished from the moment that he or she enters our family. As you will see from our profile, we have a warm extended family, eager grandparents, good friends, and a lot of fun activities to bring happiness to your child’s life.

We will always make it known in our household that you did the best thing for your child because of your love and desire for him or her to be well-cared for and to be raised in the best of circumstances. You and we will have a daughter or son who will have every chance to live up to his or her full potential, and we are looking forward to sharing our pride for this beautiful child with you over the years. Thank you again for this gracious gift of life.

If you’d like to learn more about this family contact us by either calling our birthmother hotline operator at 1-877-890-4673 (HOPE) or by e-mailing us.