Welcome! Meet:

Tim + Caitlin

Director, Software / Associate Director, Client Partnership in Advertising

Ohio

Caucasian

All About Tim & Caitlin
Why Adoption?
Gallery
Family and Home
How We Met
Advice to Future Child
Perspectives on Open Adoption
Favorites

All About Tim & Caitlin

There are just two of us, (Caitlin and Tim), and an 11 year old small dog named Owen who loves a good nap and a run around the backyard with an old stinky tennis ball. We live in Cleveland Ohio, and genuinely enjoy doing life together. Laughing constantly really helps us enjoy each other's company and stay grounded in joy. Tim is an engineer by schooling, he is smart, logical, loving, supportive, and a great listener. Caitlin went to school for a degree in Film, she is creative, compassionate, easy to talk to, and a champion for equality. Day to day, we enjoy spending time with each other, family and friends, we travel as much as we can, and recent favorite trips have included Italy, Spain, and California. We have family in Florida, Texas and California so beach trips are frequent and fun. We are both morning people so we enjoy getting ready for bed early and watching TV or movies to wind down. We recently re-started the series ER from the beginning and I forgot how entertaining it is to watch George Clooney in his 20s. Mornings are early for Tim, he loves waking up and being productive, he is currently learning Spanish in the mornings and Caitlin likes to sleep in :) We try to cook a lot of meals at home, Tim is great at grilling and Caitlin makes fantastic pancakes and French toast on the weekends. When we are not working, Tim likes to read and practice his Spanish. He also spends a lot of time working on our home and taking care of family, he enjoys organizing family outings to baseball games and visiting his grandmother as much as he can. Caitlin is on the Board of Directors for a Youth Center in our neighborhood and likes to ensure all the kids are heard and happy. She also teaches fitness classes on the weekends. Tim and Caitlin are both coaches, Tim coached college wrestling, and Caitlin has coached fitness classes for both kids and adults.

Why Adoption?

We communicated very early on about the important things in life like money, where to live, and how we felt about becoming parents. We both felt the desire to become parents together and decided that it could look like a natural pregnancy or an adoption. In our minds, both routes to parenthood were special and we would be over the moon for either opportunity.

Family & Home

We both work from home so our house is multi-purpose. We recognize the need for balance in life and have prioritized balancing work and play. The living room is a sanctuary for rest and fun, we have a large comfy sectional for watching movies and naps. Owen has a dog bed 5 sizes too big full of toys and blankets. We have a backyard that sits on almost an acre, with lots of free space to run around and a playset that our niece and nephew come over to play on often. Our living room has huge ground to floor windows to watch the wildlife in the backyard, we mostly see families of deer, chipmunks, groundhogs, and the occasional fox. We have family that lives close by. Tim is from Cleveland, where we live, and his parents, two brothers, and sister all live within 30 minutes of us. Caitlin’s parents also bought a condo here on the lake so they visit often. We like to host family events at our house because there is plenty of room to sit together in the kitchen and play in the living room. Our community is beautiful, we live across the street from the local high school, which has community soccer fields and baseball fields. We can walk to the local library and community center.

How others describe me

Caitlin describes Tim as a coach, someone who always strives to do the right thing, to help people when they need it, and is a great listener. Tim has the best memory of anyone I know, he really listens and remembers things. Tim has a huge heart for his family and friends, and is known to be a great advice giver, and someone always available to help and encourage. Students that Tim has not coached in years will still call him to invite him to graduations, and ask him for help with work or advice. Tim is also a constant learner, he is currently learning Spanish in his free time and got a second Masters degree during the Pandemic.

How Tim describes Caitlin: Caitlin cares greatly for the people in her life – however little or however long she might have known them. She is grateful for all of the personal interactions she has in her life, always remembering to send a handwritten a personal thank you note following her encounters. She actively looks for ways to support others, whether through her coaching activities or volunteering as a board member for one of the local youth centers. Her husband is immensely jealous of her discipline in leading a healthy lifestyle, but is grateful for keeping him oriented toward a healthy diet, especially when that diet is interrupted with an ice cream sundae.

How We Met

We met in Houston, where Caitlin is from, and Tim lived for seven years while working for a company that had him move to a few different cities in Texas after college. Funnily enough, we also both lived in Dallas before Houston and never ended up meeting until we met online in Houston a few years later. (Do you believe in fate?) Our first date was coffee, and we ended up talking for a long time about coaching, family, and travel. The next few dates were all fun and easy, some good ones were going to see John Stewart perform a comedy show, and WWE Monday Night Raw, because Caitlin still did not grasp that college wrestling was that different from the wrestling on TV. Within the following months, we started to meet each other's friends and family, and decided to move in together. Once we got through the Covid pandemic still loving each other's company we knew that we had a strong relationship.

Advice to Future Child

We want our future child to always know they are loved and supported for being who they are. We want them to feel that they can ask us questions and openly communicate anything and everything. We will always encourage learning new things, trying out new opportunities, meeting new types of people, traveling, and learning about the cultures of the world. We want our future child to know that we will be honest with them about their background, and do everything we can to make sure they feel safe, happy, and loved.

Perspectives on Open Adoption

We feel that open adoption is a chance to share love and support with people we may not have otherwise been able to meet or form a bond with. We genuinely believe in the positive power of having multiple adults in a child's life that loves and supports them, and we are fully on board to share open-ness at the level that the birth mother wants to be involved.

Favorites

Tim

Favorite Movie: Good Will Hunting
Favorite Holiday/Tradition: Christmas with the entire family when we host.
Hobbies/Interests: learning, reading, Cleveland Guardians baseball
Dream Vacation: If everyone lived in their favorite vacation spots, everyone would live in Hawaii, Italy, and Cleveland.
If I Could Choose a Superpower: The power to flip through a book and instantly understand everything in it.

Caitlin

Favorite Movie: Across the Universe, Blindspotting
Favorite Holiday/Tradition: I am not big on traditions but I like holidays that happen in the warmer months to spend time outdoors.
Hobbies/Interests: fitness classes, yoga, learning new things, writing, reading
Dream Vacation: Anywhere with sunshine and a pool
If I Could Choose a Superpower: Can creating world equality be a superpower?