
Dear Expectant Mother,
About Us:
After college we met in San Francisco through a mutual friend and immediately hit it off. We quickly saw our similarities in values and background. While are values are similar, our personalities and perspectives are different, and we appreciate that. We believe diversity is beautiful. We have been happily married for six years. We enjoy traveling together, watching sports games together and love hanging out with our toddler niece, Sofia, and baby godson, Brayden.
We both focused on our professional development early on in our marriage. Jason and a few of his closest friends started their own production company. Starting your own company is a lot of hard work and we are happy to report that his company is doing great. Signe is an HR Director where she happily supports over 5000 employees. While we are grateful for our professional development, we know that ultimately work doesn’t define us. We value family and there’s nothing more important to us.
A couple of years ago, we began to focus on building our family. When we didn’t conceive ourselves, we started going through infertility treatments and suffered heartbreaks along the way due to repeated miscarriage losses. Throughout those years, we also thought that adoption could be the answer to our prayers.
We are a multiracial couple. Jason is mixed with Filipino, Irish, French, and English. Signe is even more colorful as she is mixed with Mexican, Filipino, Vietnamese, French and Native American. We were both raised to know it was special to be a part of different cultures. We have always embraced our ethnicities and have lived in communities from San Francisco to our current home in a west suburb of Chicago.
Signe was adopted as an infant by the most loving Filipino parents. She is an only child and was raised in Seattle. Family was always close by as her grandma lived next door. Today Signe’s parents and grandma still live next door to each other. Her grandmother’s big 100th birthday is January 2020! They are so ready to become first time grandparents and great grandmother.
Signe’s parents and grandma raised her with love and support and also prepared her to navigate through questions about adoption. Signe was proud of being adopted and knew early on that adoption was a special act of love and that a family through adoption was perhaps even more special than a family through birth. Just like marriage where two different individuals form a family, an adoptive family is a very special bond not requiring the same biology but rather just a full heart of love and commitment.

How Jason describes Signe
How Signe describes Jason

Our promise to you and your child

We promise to provide your child a life filled with love, honesty, inclusivity, fun and fond memories. We’ll support your child’s talents and hobbies, such as sports, musical instruments and theater. We will enroll this child into the best schools and dedicate time for homework. We will socialize him/her into art and groups with other little ones. We will introduce this child to different cultures through diverse friendships and travel. We are committed to celebrating your child and providing a sense of belonging. Your child will grow up feeling proud.
We don’t have a crystal ball, so we aren’t certain of what our future will look like. We picture a family larger than just ourselves with more than one child. We are also open to a fur baby in the future; Jason is a bit obsessed with Frenchie dogs. We imagine a family tradition of going to the Arboretum yearly to watch the holiday lights while having hot cocoa. Disneyland would be a must as well. We live in a safe family friendly neighborhood with an excellent school district. We are fortunate to live nearby downtown, the lake and multiple parks.
In Closing
