Thank you for visiting us.  We are Ann and Neal.  Are you looking for a happy family to adopt your child?  We are a warm, open, loving, happy family who is seeking to adopt a child to share our lives and our love with! We invite you to take your time and browse through our open adoption family album.  

Ask any of our friends, and we're sure the words they'd use to best describe us are: "warmth", "affection" and "family".  And we know they'd say that these grow out of the very strong love that we have for each other.  We really do have an uncommonly strong marriage. We know this next statement will end up sounding like an old commercial jingle, but for us it is true - going a day without kisses and hugs is like a day without sunshine.  For us, what's best for family always comes first - ahead of jobs, ahead of hobbies, ahead of anything else.  For us, sharing our love and our happy lives with a child is the greatest of gifts.  We want to be the kind of parents who are there for our kids no matter what.  We really do have an especially warm, happy, loving home to offer a child!  Please take a moment to read on and get to know more about us and read about open adoption.  We invite you to write back or call with your questions, we'd be happy to hear from you.

OUR THOUGHTS ON ADOPTION: When we first got married, we knew we were meant to be parents.  But it wasn't until we found out about our infertility that we realized that adoption would become our pathway to parenthood.  We have not "settled for" adoption in the least, instead we have truly made adoption "our way" of becoming a family. You will always have a special place in our hearts because it is your great sacrifice that will allow us the privilege of becoming parents.  We will help your child have a special place for you in his/her heart  too, by making sure he/she understands your great love. We promise to give your child a happy, warm, open, secure, family who will love and cherish him/her always and forever. And we promise you as open an adoption relationship as you would like so your child may know of your love directly as he/she grows up. We hope that the child who joins our family will be a boy or a girl who is ages birth to three. We are ready with open arms and hearts full of love.

NEAL: I’m always interested in how things work and so I enjoy being a mechanical engineer.  I had worked my way through college by working at a golf course - but somehow after coming off of night watering I rarely had the urge to play an early round!  Now I enjoy working on our cars and doing projects around our house & yard.  I'm just finishing making spice drawers for one of our kitchen cabinets.  I enjoy listening to the blues and watching Indy car races when I get the chance.  I am a great listener, am a very thoughtful, compassionate person, and have a witty sense of humor (although I think the word Ann might choose sometimes is wacky).  My wife and our adopted son are my most important priorities in life.  I feel a great responsibility being a father.  I am provider, protector, and guide - I love doing this for our son, and I know I will love doing this for our new child too. I am so looking forward to being a Dad again!  Some of my favorite times include taking our son on a steam train ride and going for a leisurely evening walk with Ann.  I wonder what I will especially enjoy doing with our future child? 

GEORGIANN: (I use Ann for short.) I’m good at explaining things and so enjoyed teaching physiology before focusing on raising our son.  My feelings of protectiveness, wonder, joy, and head-over-heels love that I felt when I became a mother were sooo much stronger than I ever expected.  I am constantly astonished at this wonderful precious gift I have been given.  I am just so blessed to able to be a mom through adoption!  And my heart truly aches because I can hardly wait to be able to share my love with another child - I have so much love waiting to give!  I am a gentle, patient, caring person and I always find a way to make time for people ahead of  things.  When I was growing up I was totally into baseball until I discovered the flute.  Click here b if you'd like to hear me playing my flute.  (Depending on your connection speed the music page will take anywhere from 3 sec. to 3 min. to download. Please be patient.) I'm just a hobby musician, but I have had the chance to play at an art fair, a botanical garden, and even for a large charity banquet.  In my free time I also enjoy sewing, gardening, reading, and trying out special recipes on our dinner guests.  (Neal teases me by saying that I manage to find a way to use every pot and pan we own every time I try out a new dish.)  I also look forward to going family camping  during the summer and celebrating our anniversary at a bed & breakfast every fall. 

OUR FAMILY: Our son Eric is an energetic, creative, generous little boy who has just started school.  He likes basketball, climbing trees, stories about dinosaurs and constructing all kinds of Lego cars & trucks. He often asks when his new brother or sister is coming because he is so eager to become a big brother. We’ll never forget his adoption day, the day when he was placed in our arms as our son. He is truly a miracle in our lives. We are forever grateful to his birthmother, for without her gift we could not have become parents. We can’t imagine loving him any more if we had given birth to him ourselves. And we know we will love your child just as much!  In our family your child will be assured of getting all the benefits of having a big brother.  Yet your child will still get many of the benefits of being an only child - such as having Ann all to him/herself while Eric is in school.  Our home and our hearts are so ready for another child to love.

OUR MARRIAGE: We met when we were in college while playing volleyball with friends on Saturday nights. We planned a fall wedding so we could enjoy the autumn colors on our honeymoon at  a little cottage on a lake.  Well, the leaves were gone and it snowed instead, but we had great fun anyway hiking back trails looking for waterfalls! Our marriage has been very strong these past thirteen years because we have based it on trust in God and trust in each other. We love each other very much and are each others best friend.  We have used the challenges that life brings our way to grow closer together. We are so very happy together!

OUR LIFESTYLE: The focus of our life is our family. We like to build leaf piles to jump in and go on hayrides in the fall.  In winter we like to build snowmen and go snowshoeing.  We like to go on hikes in the springtime, and splash at the waterpark in the summer.  We value our time as a family and look forward to such times as a quiet Saturday night curled up together for a “popcorn movie night” as Eric likes to say.  We enjoy getting together with family and friends for Packer parties, cookouts, birthdays & holidays or just for the fun of being together. And we look forward to vacationing every summer in northern Wisconsin with our extended family. We also look forward to planning rambling summer trips across the country with our children someday to see our nation's great natural wonders and to visit its historical sites.

OUR HOME: We live close to parks, a great zoo, museums, bike trails, and Lake Michigan. Our home is a comfortable four bedroom ranch set into the side of a hill next to a natural area. The nursery looks out over the playset and the trees beyond. On moonlit nights in winter we can watch the deer bedding down in our yard. We look forward to standing at the nursery window to point them out before whispering I love you in a little ear and kissing a soft little cheek good night.

 We have so much love waiting for always and forever to give a child. We know that we are the right family for someone’s child. Could it be yours? Only you can know for sure. We know that in the end the right people will find each other because we believe that God has a hand in bringing families together in an open adoption.  Our hearts go out to you and may God’s hand guide you as you choose that exactly special just right family for your child.