Engagement picture)
Hi, we are Tim & Melissa Hennis. Thank You for taking the time to read our letter! We admire your incredible strength and determination to find a loving and stable home for your baby. We feel that placing a child for adoption is the ultimate act of unselfish love and we really hope that the openness in your adoption process will give you the support you need and deserve. As you learn more about who we are, we hope that you will consider our home for your baby.
We both have always dreamed about having a family. From the time we met, we wanted to have a family together to be able to share in the closeness only a family can have. For the four years that we have been married we’ve dealt with miscarriages, tubal pregnancies and failed IVF. Our strong desire to have a family of our own and to be able to share our love is so big that the transition of deciding to adopt was an easy one, there was finally a light at the end of the tunnel.
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We met through some friends, started dated and got engaged after three years of dating. We are true soul mates and best friends. We got married in our home town with lots of friends and family and had a beautiful wedding. Shortly after being married we purchased our first house together and have spent a lot of time making it a wonderful home. We are both from the Ohio area. We love the outdoors, camping and fishing mainly. We have taken a lot of weekend trips to different cabins just to get away and we also go to Canada twice a year for fishing trips with both families, and just can’t wait to have a child to share all of our wonderful family vacations with
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Tim works for the Village that we live in and has been employed there for 5 years. Because of the flexibility of his job, it will allow him to spend quality time with his family. Tim is a happy, fun loving person with a great sense of humor. People are drawn to Tim’s personality being he enjoys life and is a kid at heart. Tim is quite the handyman and is able to fix just about anything around the house. Tim enjoys golfing and bowling and helping out family and friends. Tim is the type of person that know matter what he is doing when someone needs something he stops what he is doing to help someone else. His thoughtfulness, wisdom, and tenderness will make him an amazing father.
Melissa has been employed with a local Hardware store in her home town for over a year. She is head cashier over 4 part time cashiers. Since we got married, she has stepped down her career to deal with doctors appointments and dealing with the chaos we have had for the past four years with infertility, also working this close to home it makes her available whenever something comes up at home. Melissa’s skills such as listening, empathy, understanding, and genuinely caring about others would be wonderful attribute to being a Mom. Melissa had a very active childhood that has continued throughout her adult years. She participated in activities such as softball and cheerleading.
Melissa also did a lot of babysitting in her teen years. She has always been drawn to children and loves to take care of them. She has a big family and even bigger now that she’s married with lots of little ones around. She always knew and dreamed about having a family of her own. Growing up, her family was constantly together. Her parents instilled a strong work ethic, helping others, and to be respectful to others. Melissa is a very kind and patient person who always see the best in everyone.
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We both come from very close-knit families. Tim has 1 sibling and 1 niece and 1 nephew. Tim’s family lives close so we are able to see them often and share holidays together. Melissa has 2 siblings and 5 nieces who all live about 45 minutes from us, which we also visit a few times each year. We are excited about having a child to enjoy spending time with and celebrating holidays with.
We live in a 5 bedroom home in a nice family-oriented town. We are excited to welcome a new addition to our home to fill it with toys, giggles, and more love. Our community has some really good schools in the county and all of them are very close. The weather is beautiful changing from season to season, and we are a few hours drive from many amusement parks, zoos, water parks and much more. We have both been raised Presbyterian and come from loving homes. We continue to be strong Presbyterians and enjoy having God in our lives.
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Now meet Lyndsey, she is Tim’s daughter to a previous relationship. She is five years old and is in Kindergarten. She is a very fun loving, well mannered child with lots of energy. She gets to spend every other weekend Friday – Sunday with us and also an overnight during the week. We also alternate holidays with her biological mother. We all, (her father, her mother and two step parents) all get along very well. We try to make the transition for her as easy as possible. Lyndsey also, (on her mother’s side) as a younger sister which makes her a wonderful big sister and she would be a wonderful sibling for your child too. She is very good with younger kids always being the leader and looking out for them. She keeps trying to figure out why we can’t have a baby brother or sister for her.
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Tim spends every minute possible with her and is a great father. I have never seen a man that can act like a fiver year old as well as him just to make her happy. He enjoys playing in her room and also in the backyard with her. He couldn’t be a better father. Melissa also spends as much time possible with Lyndsey, she is a very loving step mother. She loves Lyndsey as if she were her own biological child. Lyndsey enjoys time with Melissa because she feels secure with her. She shares a lot of secrets with her step-mother. Melissa has given her such a big shoulder to lie her head down on that she relies on Melissa to tell her what is bothering her, and no matter what it is either she will help her or get someone who can.
(Picture of Melissa & Lyndsey)
A child that we welcome into our home will grow up in a home full of unconditional love and tenderness. We will make sure they feel safe and secure in our love and know that we will always support them. We believe in the value of education and will provide these children the opportunity to go to the college of their choice. They will discover their own unique interests and we will do our best to help them reach their goals.
We are excited to welcome a new baby in our loving and caring home to make our family complete. If we are selected, we want to assure you that your child will always know they were adopted, loved by you, and what a tremendous gift you gave when you placed him/her for adoption. We are open to having communication, sharing letters and photographs. So, if deep in your heart you feel that we are the right fit for your baby and that we are the kind of family that you would want your child to be brought up with, please contact us at [email protected].
(Family Picture Tim, Melissa, Lyndsey and Jimmy)
With lots of love,
Tim & Melissa Hennis ↓
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| Name: Samantha | Date: Dec 1st, 2005 10:03 PM |
| Hey you guyz........guess what? i had the baby. i had her Nov.29 @ 12:45 p.m and at the moment shes restibg in my lap[chest] she is a month early but shes so HEALTHLY! she was 5lbs 6oz and i got to take her hime yesterday!! i have given her a name....Emma and i still kinda want to have an open adoption,its just i already love her so much! but IF i do give her up..i would love it to be with u, i havent decided yet. i have to go shes starting to get fussy. lol ↑ |
| Name: Tim & Melissa | Date: Dec 1st, 2005 11:23 PM |
Congratulations Samantha. I'm glad everything went ok and she is healthy. I'm sure you do love her alot and that this is going to be a hard decision to make. Do you have anyone helping you out or are you on your own? I just want you to know the more time you spend with her and the more you take care of her it is only going to make it alot harder on you. I really hope you can decide what is best for you and her both before you both get to attached to the point that you can't let go and then her future and yours turn out to be exactly what you didn't want. Please keep us posted and let us know what is going on. Even if you just would like to chat. I would prefer you email me either at [email protected] or at [email protected]
I just feel emailing is a little more confidential then this web site.
We were really looking into open adoption directly from the hospital but everything sounds like you have it under control and she is being taken care of so we would consider making some kind of legal agreement with you even now if this is what you decide. Even if you don't decide on us thanks so much for considering us that really means alot.
There is a new girl to the site her name is Lyndsey and she is 19-years old and is 5-months pregnant and is set on adoption. I forwarded her my information but she didn't seem the least bit interested. I really people would read our story and see what you saw. This decision that we have made was truly from the bottom of our hearts and I know it's hard for someone on the internet to understand where were coming from as complete strangers but if they would just get to know us they would understand that there child would be love as much with us as it would if they kept it if not more. A child is all we wanted to complete our lives and everything seems to keep falling in a big dark deep hole for us. Well thanks for listening, keep us updated, talk to you soon. Our prayers are with you and Emma both.
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