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Megan & Beau
OUR PROMISE TO YOU:
Hello! And thank-you for checking out our profile.
We are nervous and excited to be embarking on the journey of growing our family!
We want you to know that as prospective parents hoping to grow our family by adoption, we have given some thought to the type of parents we want to be. Just like when we said ‘I choose you’ to each other on our wedding day, we are considering what we will be committing to when you say “YES” to us and we say “YES” to adopting your baby!
We will love your child as our own
When we talk about you, we will honour you and speak about you respectfully.
We will be honest with you/our child about their story and your part in it.
We will invest in relationship with each other to help build a stable foundation and home for our family.
We will strive to create a nurturing environment full of wonder and curiosity.
We will consider our (and your) child’s well-being as a core value in the decisions we make as a family.
ABOUT US:
Beau is a Paramedic with the BC Ambulance service and Megan is a Midwife. Megan and Beau both obtained their trades in small town BC, with Megan first training as a Licensed Practical Nurse.
Megan then furthered her education internationally with an Associate Science of Midwifery from the USA with a preceptorship in the Philippines and bridged in to registration in Canada at the Toronto Metropolitan University. Megan has back-packed around-the-world in her early twenties, and carries a zest for life, culture, and good food as a result of this experience.
Beau has worked in 8 different Ambulance stations across BC building resilience within his profession. Beau is an easy-going fellow who is loyal and affectionate. Beau loves wildlife and exploring back-roads in his truck.
For the last 5 years we have been diligently crafting our small home next to Megan’s parents homestead. They have chickens, cows, dogs, cat, and one pond fish. Our intention for our life has been built into our home, simplicity, nature, and free time to spend together doing meaningful projects, travelling, and just having fun! When designing each detail of our little house we took into consideration the children we hope to raise here.
In our free time, we like to get outdoors, eat good food, get together with friends. We like to explore hiking routes, hot springs or swim holes in one of the beautiful mountainous areas that we are surrounded with.
ABOUT OUR FAMILY:
Your child will be our first child, though we do hope to expand in the future so they will have siblings.
We value family and friends and togetherness.
Beau spent 3 years on Vancouver Island and Megan spent 3 years in Ontario at the start of our careers. When mutually back in the Kootenay region we were set up on a blind date in 2016. The rest is history, and we married in 2018 on a mountaintop overlooking the autumn colours in the valley we now call home.
Megan has recently restructured her work to entail less on-call commitment freeing up more time to engage in family life when the hoped-for kids are small. Beau works a 4-on-4 off pattern, so our ‘weekend’ cycles with Beau’s off days. Beau has generous access to days off per year which equals about 12 weeks of holidays per year. We love road-tripping, visiting the coast and communities where we’ve previously lived and travelled. We usually take one holiday every winter to a warm and sunny place.
We look forward to celebrating life’s rhythms with a little-one in our home. Traditions and seasons play an important role in our family, and we’re so looking forward to including a little-one in cutting-down a Christmas tree, dyeing easter eggs, camping, hiking, road-tripping, playing-in-the-dirt on the farm, cooking, and all the things that we so enjoy in this beautiful gift we call life.
One of our close friends have been on this adoption journey with us, so we hope their child will be like a cousin to our child by adoption.
OUR HOME & COMMUNITY:
We live on a semi-rural property but within biking distance to a town that is home to many young families. Both sets of grandparents live close at hand, and Megan’s sister and brother and their families with 5 pre-/school aged kids live in the neighborhood as well. We have included one celebratory photo of how the cousins responded when we announced we were planning to adopt another cousin into the family!
We are both from families of 5 kids, so there are lots of Aunties and Uncles around. Megan’s youngest brother came into our family by adoption in the 1990s.
OPENNESS:
We know that adoption is a unique way of building a family and by nature a child will have more than two parents that are traditionally present at the beginning of their life.
Megan has assisted a few families through this transition in her career and is aware of the rawness and realness that comes with this journey, but also of the beauty that can unfold. We wish to support you as best as we can through this process, whether that means providing labour support during the birthing or staying at arm’s length and respecting your boundaries until you are ready for our presence.
We think openness helps set the foundation for a genuine relationship with the child that helps them to understand their story and their identity. We are thankful for the ways you may want to engage with openness for the benefit of the child that is all-of-ours, whether that is being open to being contacted, maintaining e-mail contact, or keeping in touch with periodic in-person visits.
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