Hello!
We're Pat and Geoff Kuenning, and we'd like to tell you about our desire to give your baby a secure and comfortable life, and how much we will consider it a privilege to raise your child in our loving home.
We are extremely excited about fulfilling our dream of adding to our family by adopting. Open adoption offers the best way to ensure that you and the baby can share our fundamental value of honest and open relationships. You can be confident that your child will always know of your love.
Our marriage five years ago grew out of a caring 9-year relationship. We have always been best friends, and cherish our special bond of commitment and mutual respect. The child we raise will share the joy and closeness of our lives.
Our comfortable home is shared by three cuddly cats and is filled with the sounds of our many musical instruments. It is located in Granada Hills, California, a lovely, safe suburb about 20 miles north of Los Angeles. Nearby is a beautiful state park where we picture ourselves picnicking, playing, and taking walks holding our toddler's tiny hand. Our quiet yard is filled with fruit trees and flowers, and we have a cheerful, sunny room that we can't wait to turn into a nursery. Geoff is refinishing a crib for the new baby, and his oldest brother is restoring the family's antique wooden rocking horse.
A close family is deeply important to us. Geoff's younger brother and his wife live nearby, allowing us to get together often. They're really excited about having a new niece or nephew to play with their own new baby. Visiting the rest of Geoff's family in Montana is always a special treat. Frequently we see Pat's mother, who lives near the beach in San Francisco, and Pat's sister's family at their farmhouse near Seattle. Pat also has cousins in England whom we visit whenever possible.
Our family-oriented neighborhood is filled with children riding tricycles on the sidewalk, running through sprinklers, and flying kites. There is a new state-of-the-art elementary school just one block away, so that the little ones have access to a wonderful playground and can start kindergarten with their best friends. Since we are both committed to learning, your child will be offered the opportunity to get the best possible education.
Both of us are very devoted to children, and love caring for them. We anticipate singing lullabies, teaching the baby to walk and talk, getting the giggles as we share silly jokes and riddles, creating puppet shows, and reading bedtime stories before that final goodnight kiss. You'll know that your child has patient, dedicated parents from the first through the 2,597th diaper change! We will be there to take care of sniffles, fevers, and monsters under the bed. As the years go by, your child will have supportive parents during all the ups and downs of life: the first day of school, afternoons of homework, music or dance lessons, won and lost ball games, new friendships, and the inevitable childhood disappointments. Eventually, we will watch proudly as our child becomes an adult and goes into the world, knowing that together we have provided a strong moral, mental, and physical foundation for a successful future.
Realizing you have some very difficult decisions to make, we want to thank you for considering us as potential parents for your child. If you would like to discuss adoption with us, you can call us at home any time (toll-free) at 1-888-816-3557, or call our adoption counselor at 1-800-726-1021. On the Internet, you can send us e-mail or visit our counselor's Web page. You can also have the Independent Adoption Center arrange for you to speak to us by phone or in person.
We wish you our very best,
Pat & Geoff Kuenning
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| Pat loves the outdoors! |
Geoff is a Ph.D. computer researcher and lecturer at UCLA. He loves his work, especially because it allows him to be flexible with his time so that he can make family his number-one priority. Pat teaches music in an elementary school, performs in local symphony orchestras, and also gives cello lessons at home to students from ages 5 through adult. However, she plans to stop working after we adopt so that she can be a full-time mom.
Hobbies
We both enjoy playing music together for our friends, camping, hiking, sailing, horseback riding, traveling, going to the beach, and puttering around the house. We also spend a lot of time at home, playing with our three cute cats, Bella (the "Queen") and the twin kittens Dot and Ditto. Pat loves to cook, especially if it's a recipe she's never tried before. After one of her barbecues, our guests like to relax in the yard, watching Geoff while he clowns around and juggles brightly colored balls and pins. He has the age-old skill of mesmerizing an audience of children (and adults) by telling traditional versions of folk tales, or sometimes new stories he likes to make up on the spot.
