I recently had the chance to talk with Blake and Maggie, hopeful adoptive parents who live in North Carolina. When you’re thinking about adoption for your child, you’re able to talk to hopeful adoptive parents before making your decision. By chatting with them and asking them questions, you can get the full picture of the adoptive couple as potential parents to your baby.
I asked Blake and Maggie some fun questions that you won’t find in their adoption profile, and I learned that they’re a young, faith-filled couple who are so ready and excited to become parents. Together, they enjoy gardening, cooking new recipes, going to Mass together, and volunteering at their church.
They’re very much looking forward to pouring their hearts into a little life through adoption. Blake and Maggie share, “Our love for each other has only continued to grow and grow. We can’t wait to be able to share that love with our little one.”
1. What is the best gift you’ve ever been given?
Blake: When Maggie and I were engaged, we made a paper link chain to count down the days like you do when there is a highly anticipated event at school. We went to a stationary store, bought decorative paper, and sliced it into a hundred pieces to link the chain.
Maggie kept it at her house and tore one off each day until we got married. She ended up saving the pieces and made them into a framing background for a picture from our wedding that she gave me on our anniversary one year. That picture has sat on my work desk since then to remind me of the thoughtfulness and beauty of the woman I married.
Maggie: I’m not a jewelry person, but for Christmas one year when I was in college, my dad got me a gold crucifix necklace. It’s simple and beautiful, and it witnesses Christ. It’s the thing that made Blake decide to ask for my number the first time we met. To this day, it’s the only jewelry I wear… in addition to my wedding ring ;).
2. When you were a kid, what did you absolutely love to do?
Blake: When I would get home from school on sunny days, I would love to take out a garden hose and a vacuum hose from the garage and set them up in an oval. Imagining this was a racetrack, I would get on my bike and see how fast I could go around it. Sometimes, I would even make my sisters race with me.
Maggie: READ!!! I was one of those nerds who would come home from school and read Junie B. Jones, Dear Dumb Diary, Roald Dahl, Harry Potter… anything I could get my hands on… And read until dinner.
After dinner, I would read some more and take a flashlight with me to bed so I could read under my blanket. My favorite places to read were in a homemade hammock made with blankets tied to our bunk bed, with one of my sleeping little siblings on my chest, or out in a good climbing tree.
You can get an even better glimpse into Blake and Maggie’s lives in their video:
3. What advice would you give yourself at age 15?
Blake: Do not be afraid to ask others for help or advice. While my independence had a good aspect, it is also a great way to become prideful and self-centered.
Maggie: I would have to phrase it in a way that didn’t sound like advice since I did NOT take kindly to being advised at that time, but…I’d tell 15-year-old Maggie to remember her family. The rest of the world will not matter forever: grades, work, sports, friends, boys. But your family will always be there. Don’t get so mad at your little sister when she eats your Easter candy!
4. If you could eat only one meal the rest of your life, what would it be?
Blake: White rice, both beans, fajitas, double chicken, mild and medium salsa, sour cream, extra cheese, guac, and lettuce bowl from Chipotle. Bonus fun fact: in college I ate this meal for 21 days in a row as part of a promotional challenge that Chipotle was doing. I got free catering for myself and my friends, so it was worth it.
Maggie: It would have to be burrito bowls. Blake’s logical argument convinced me from my dream-world snickerdoodle ice cream. It’s got the basic macros: protein, carbs, fat, and you can change up your salsas and guacs for new flavors, so you don’t have to get bored. He’s right. He’s always right.
5. What is something from your childhood that you want to make sure your child gets to experience?
Blake: I want them to experience being able to solve problems and fix things themselves. Creativity and critical thinking are so important to develop, and there is nothing like the satisfaction of coming up with a solution and implementing it.
Maggie: I grew up in a large woods area of 70+ acres. We spent WAY more time outside playing than we did with our eyes on a TV, tablet, or phone. I want to make sure our child gets to grow up using their imagination and learning how to creatively entertain themselves instead of relying on screens!
Would you like to learn more about Blake and Maggie?
You can check out their adoptive family profile online. If you’re interested in talking to them as potential adoptive parents to your baby, just text or call Lifetime at 1-800-923-6784, anytime, even right now! We’ll get you connected to talk with Blake and Maggie over the phone or through a video call.
Heidi Keefer is a Content Creator for Lifetime Adoption and has over 15 years of experience in the field of adoption. An author of thousands of articles and social media posts over the years, Heidi enjoys finding new ways to educate and captivate Lifetime’s ever-growing list of subscribers.
Heidi has a keen eye for misplaced apostrophes, comma splices, and well-turned sentences, which she has put to good use as a contributor to Lifetime’s award-winning blogs. She has written and published hundreds of adoption articles which explore the various facets of domestic infant adoption today.
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