Hello! We are Holly and Kwame and our daughter is “K” We are married and have been together for 12 years. Our world became even bigger when we got pregnant and K was born 7 years ago. Its so true that when you have a baby, your heart grows bigger. We are ready and so happy to welcome another little one! We are open to any race. We think having a big sister like our daughter would be such a plus for a baby. The baby would be sooo loved by a mom and a dad and a big sister! If you look at our family photos with our daughter, you’ll get to see how a baby would grow up with us.
We have a very family centered life. We love kids and we are excited to grow our family through adoption. We are officially HOME STUDY APPROVED! (April 2024)
Our family is vibrant and filled with love. We love spending time together, making memories and supporting each other. As you can see from our pictures, we are a multi-racial family. We live in a safe, family-friendly suburb in a community with strong family values and great schools. We are ready for the changes that occur with another baby. We are so excited about being a part of another child’s journey through life! Thank you for taking time to look at our site.
About Holly (by Kwame)
Holly has been a stay at home mom since K was born. She loves being a hands on mom who is there for all the milestones and special moments that K has. She loves spending time with K and nurturing her interests. She would be like this with another child.
Holly is Korean-American. She was born and raised in NY. She has a Bachelor’s degree and she worked in creative fields and nonprofits prior to being a stay at home mom. She loves movies, books, and the arts. Holly appreciates the simple things in life, like kindness and empathy. She loves and protects those close to her with a big heart.
Holly volunteers at K’s schools. She was a class parent in her preschool and volunteers teaching nature related lessons in her elementary school. She also volunteers for a community nonprofit and works on bringing fun cultural and arts events to her community.
Embracing and celebrating different cultures is important to her. She makes sure that K is aware of both her Korean and Jamaican heritage. She talks about Jamaica and Korea regularly. She reads books to K which contain diverse characters. She understands the importance of representation for kids to see themselves in a positive light. She would be super supportive of celebrating the cultural background of K’s future sibling!
About “K”
K is a creative, sweet natured and happy seven year old with a great sense of humor. She loves using her imagination and creating fun things with toys, arts and crafts or other things around our home. She loves music and dancing and art. She loves riding her scooter and her bike. She loves nature and animals.
K was selected as a “Role Model Friend” at school, which means that she is plays well with other kids and knows how to be a great friend. On playdates with her friends, she includes her friends’ younger siblings.
K is super excited about becoming a big sister! She wants to teach her younger sibling how to read; how to create art; and how to ride a bike!
About Kwame (by Holly)
Kwame loves being a dad and enjoys family life. He’s a great dad! He has a calm and friendly down to earth personality. He’s patient and warm and kind.
Kwame is Jamaican – American. He was born in Jamaica and spent his childhood there growing up with strong connections to family and friends, many of whom he is still close to today! He lights up every time he sees his childhood friends. Whenever we get together, it feels like a huge extended family.
Kwame enjoys many sports, but in particular soccer has always been a passion of his to watch as a fan or to play whenever possible.
Kwame has an easy going sunny personality and is a positive person.
Kwame enjoys music and practicing guitar and making up silly songs with K. He enjoys playing songs by Bob Marley to Bob Dylan to Bruce Springsteen.
He is proud of his Jamaican heritage, but also celebrates Korean culture and has taken it upon himself to learn Korean. He loves learning new languages and also taught himself some French, Spanish and Portuguese.
Kwame has a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering. He works as a Project Manager and has been doing so for over a decade. He handles his relationships with his colleagues and clients with professionalism, positive energy and warmth.
We met in New York City through a mutual friend, got married a few years later and moved to a tree-lined family oriented suburb in Northern New Jersey a few months before K was born. We've been together for 12 years. We've traveled together and visited several countries and also lots of fun places in the US (even did an Amtrak train trip through half of the country together!), but we also enjoy staying home and everyday life together. As a family, we like reading, listening to music, board games, doing jigsaw puzzles, going to the many parks nearby, biking together, going to the beach, meeting up with other families at the playground, family vacations and road trips.
We each have a great sense of humor and have always laughed together, the kind of laughing where your belly hurts from laughing so much. As a family, we continue to share a lot of fun together. We have a deep respect for each other's cultures and would equally respect (and celebrate!) the culture of an adopted child who may have a different heritage. We have a diverse group of friends from various backgrounds and cultures and feel lucky to be living in a community where there are many multi-racial families and adoptive families.
We value education and we both have college degrees, but we also value social and emotional wellness. We believe kids need to do their best, but they also need to have fun and enjoy being a kid! In our parenting, we embrace our daughter for all her unique personality traits and we would do so with her future sibling as well.
We live in a racially diverse suburb in Northern New Jersey. We love where we live and it's ideal for family life. In our immediate area, there are many beautiful parks, playgrounds, gardens and nature preserves. Our community is filled with compassionate and open minded people. Its the type of place where people say hello to each other on the street and check on their elderly neighbors when there's a heat wave or a snow storm. There are many adoptive families and multi-racial families and so there's a great support system for adoptive families.
We have formed strong bonds with our community. We have built a strong support system during the 7 years we've lived here and it continues to grow stronger every year. We have made many fellow parent friends with whom we share parenting advice and support. We volunteer our time in the schools and community. We support local businesses, many of whom have become family friends. We love living in a community filled with people from all different backgrounds who appreciate a sense of community.
With the following photos of us and our daughter, you can get a good sense of how a baby would grow up with us. : )
The area we live is known for arts and culture, and we are also about 45 minutes from New York City, so we can easily go to places like the Museum of Natural History (dinosaurs!); the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Bronx Zoo; Statue of Liberty, just to name a few that are great for kids to visit.
We love doing things as a family and we appreciate the simple things in life. Our area is a beautiful place for a child to grow up.
SUMMER! A perfect summer day is spending the day at the beach building sandcastles and splashing in the waves and getting ice cream afterwards. We try to keep the sand from getting everywhere, but of course its all over the car and we track it inside and clean it up as much as possible, but sand is hard to clean ... but its okay and almost welcome because the next day when you see sand in the bathtub, its just a reminder of the fun we've had and you can't help but smile.
WINTER! A perfect winter day is when it snows several inches and everything is blanketed in snow and we go outside (extra magical when its still snowing outside!) and make snow angels and go sledding down the local sledding hill and there's the whoosh sound of the sleds and kids' laughter fills the air and you look around and it looks like a picture on a postcard of a winter wonderland. There's also a local Christmas tree lighting ceremony and people have holiday decorations on thir lawns.
SPRING! During spring, comes flowers blooming everywhere you look, local Easter egg hunts, and cultural festivals around town including AAPI festivals and Juneteenth celebrations.
FALL! The fall is all about pumpkins and family friendly Halloween events in town and kids going to school in their Halloween costumes. We dress up in costumes and go trick or treating with K. We get pumpkins from a pumpkin patch.
We have traditions like dressing up as a family for Halloween and going trick or treating, getting pumpkins at a local pumpkin patch, seeing family for Thanksgiving, baking holiday cookies, picking out a fresh Christmas tree together and driving home with it tied to the roof of our car, wearing holiday PJs on Christmas Eve and waking up on Christmas morning with presents under the tree. On the night before birthdays, after K has gone to sleep, Holly and Kwame decorate the living room and dining room with Happy Birthday signs and balloons, so K wakes up to balloons on her birthday. We would do the same with K's future sibling to create a sense of magic on their birthdays.
These photos provide a broad look into our family life, but there is much more information we can share with you and we would love to learn more about you. If you feel a connection, we would love to have a chat (text or phone or email) to learn more about each other. We believe that its important for a child to know and respect their roots and that includes you, their birth mother, in whatever way you’re comfortable. We can figure things out together. We always want to do what is best for a child.
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE — We are a mom and dad who would love a baby unconditionally. Also an adopted baby would have a loving big sister. They would have a loving stable home where they can thrive.
SUPPORT SYSTEM IN THE COMMUNITY, ADOPTION RELATED — An adopted baby would have a support system of many other adoptive families in our community. We have many friends who have adopted and friends who are adult adoptees and so we can understand the situation in different ways and we would love to continue to learn more, so we can always do what is best for a child. We have a growing support system of adoptive parents and adopted adult friends to get advice.
OTHER ADOPTED KIDS — Our daughter has several friends who are adopted, so a baby would grow up and most likely have other adopted friends in the community.
GREAT SCHOOLS & DIVERSITY — The schools are great and highly rated. And the schools and community are very diverse in so many ways, so a child is not the only one of a particular race or culture or background or situation.