Becky & Martin In Pennsylvania

We are Becky and Marty, and we have been married for four years now and together for almost ten years. We have two children who are now adults. We are hoping to expand our family through adoption. We feel that even though our children are grown, we still have so much love to give a baby. We have so many reasons for wanting to adopt our next child.

We just love children! We have a slew of nieces and nephews, and our love for family has brought us to this decision. A little back story of how we met... It started with my nephew being born. Marty worked with my brother and sister-in-law in the Emergency Medical Field. They worked together a lot, and my brother was having a baby, who I hadn’t been able to see yet. Wouldn’t you know, Marty called me and asked me to go with him to see the new baby, I said yes and almost ten years later here we are!

We are very hard workers; Marty has been in the EMS field as a paramedic for almost twenty years and I have been in the retail business for almost the same amount of time. I work at a place called Sheetz as an assistant manager. It has its ups and downs, but I love the people I get to meet along the way.

A little bit about our free time activities, we are very family driven. So, any chance we get to spend time with them means a lot to us. If we aren’t with family, you could probably find us at a cemetery restoring old and maybe forgotten headstones. We will look at the old and deteriorating ones and clean them and get them as good as possible. Sometimes they are too far weathered to make them the whole way back to normal, but we get as close as we can. It makes us feel good about helping others in a way that we would hope someone would help us or our family. It is important to us to volunteer at homeless shelters and help dish out dinners or drive these dinners to the shut ins that don’t have a way to get the food. We love holidays, it gives us family time that we may not have with every one’s work schedules. We also love to travel, since getting together, we have been to fourteen states.

We have two older children. Our son is nineteen and our daughter is twenty-three. They are hardworking individuals. Our daughter is going to school right now for her Master’s Degree in Human Resources. She is interning at a well-known business. Once she completes all of that, she plans on living down south. Our son is currently a Room Service Manager at a well-known resort. He also plans on eventually moving down south, but for now he is building his future then moving. They both have strong heads on their shoulders. They are smart and have been through a lot with their parents divorcing and then accepting me into their lives. They see a change and adapt and learn the good and bad from each situation and make an informed decision on how to proceed.

Our home is 2,500 square feet. We have six bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms. We have a nice size attic, but we primarily use that for storage. We can’t wait to make our baby's nursery his/her special place that comes to life with their laughter and joy. We don’t have a big yard, but what we are lacking in a yard we make up for in our house. We don’t really need a yard because we have four parks that are close to us, two that are close and two that are not too far away. Our neighborhood is diverse. That makes for a nice place to live. We are about four blocks away from the middle school. The other schools aren’t too far and are decent in their academics.

We are very strong family-oriented people. We love the togetherness of family, and we believe there is no greater gift on earth than family. Marty comes from a family of five. With his childhood being a little harder than some, that just made him push harder for his family to be close. Our children know they are loved, and that family is always number one and there at the drop of a hat. For example, our niece came in for a graduation party and needed a ride to the airport. Marty was all in, and he got up especially early to have her there in time for not only her flight.

When Becky was in elementary school, she had a house fire. As a ten-year-old girl it was devastating, however the loss of everything gave her more of an understanding of the value of togetherness. They may have lost everything but they still had each other. Becky lost her mom a few years ago. She took care of her severely autistic Aunt Patty (her mom's sister), who is such a special and important person in her life. Becky also had Aunt Ruthie, her dad's sister. She would take me shopping or to get food or just spend time with me.

On Marty’s side, he had an Aunt Jo who was also very special. She didn’t have any biological children so she would always make sure that she had time for him and his sisters. She would always pay attention to them and take them on trips, and she helped show them to work hard for what you want.

Becky comes from a close-knit family of six. They always knew they were loved, and that family is always there for one another. They would go to church as a family on Sundays and would gather at her grandparents’ house for dinner and family time.

When it comes to our holidays, it is not uncommon for all the girls to get together and start baking, decorating or just preparing for the holidays. Whether it be Easter, Christmas, Thanksgiving or just little picnics, we are always together to help. While the girls are busy doing their thing, the guys are setting up decorations, getting the yard ready or just watching sports. Growing up, Becky and her siblings would go outside and play ball with their dad while their mom was cooking. Marty’s grammy didn’t drive so just to make sure she was there to watch them open gifts, Becky would make sure someone would go get her.

We are hoping to expand our family through adoption. We feel that even though our children are grown, we still have so much love to give a baby. We have so many reasons for wanting to adopt our next child.