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Meet the Baharia Family!
Macsen Piers Baharia
Age 32
Occupation Mechanical Engineer
Bio Macsen is first generation Welsh, his parents having emigrated from Uganda in the late 1970s. He struggled in school growing up, enjoying sports and legos more than math and English, but eventually he got a weekend job helping out an elderly clockmaker and discovered his passion for mechanics and inventing things out of spare parts. He channeled this passion into school robotics and eventually was able to go to college. Macsen had just finished creating an automated mechanical dragon when he met Demelza, who fell in love with both him and his work. As his creations have become more and more lucrative, his young family has become very financially comfortable and neither him nor Demelza has to work anymore, although they both do.
Demelza Rosemary (Overhill) Baharia
Age 33
Occupation History and Art Teacher
Bio Native Born welsh, Demelza grew up in a very happy family and she was always encouraged to follow her dreams. She studied hard in school, particularly enjoying art and history. She often created little simulations for her history classmates to play and she constantly chose different times and places she would most like to live in. She double majored history and art in college, and eventually, after dabbling in curating positions and archaeology, decided to become a teacher. Now she is able to share her passion with her students and her simulations have just gotten better. She met Macsen while getting her teaching degree and the two fell head over heels in love.
Children
Thomas Gerallt Baharia
Age 3
Bio Thomas, fondly called Tomy by his parents and Tam by everyone else, is a bubbly and excitable toddler. He's always wanted a sibling and when his parents told him they were thinking about adopting he was overjoyed by the prospect.
Languages Both Macsen and Demelza speak both Welsh and English fluently. Macsen can passably speak Swahili and Demelza speaks conversational Italian, Arabic, and Hindi.
Nationalities Macsen is Ugandan-Welsh while Demelza is Welsh
Religions Atheist
Location Cardiff, Wales, UK
Adoption
Number preference 1 or 2
Age preference Macsen and Demelza would like one child somewhere near Tam's age (0-6) and they wouldn't be opposed to adopting an older teen as well, but they will only adopt two if they're siblings.
Gender preference None
Nationality preference None
Language preference None
Religion preference They don't particularly care, but preferably not devout.
Would they accept ... ?
-siblings Yes. They will only accept more than one if they're siblings.
-multiples Yes, but only twins.
-children with disabilities or illnesses Minor curable diseases are okay, but the family doesn't know how to deal with other conditions. They especially do not want to deal with fetal drug or alcohol syndrome.
-pregnant teenagers Yes.
-children with teenage parents Yes.
Open adoption or closed adoption? Both are acceptable.
The family can't wait to meet their new member(s)!
Macsen Piers Baharia
Age 32
Occupation Mechanical Engineer
Bio Macsen is first generation Welsh, his parents having emigrated from Uganda in the late 1970s. He struggled in school growing up, enjoying sports and legos more than math and English, but eventually he got a weekend job helping out an elderly clockmaker and discovered his passion for mechanics and inventing things out of spare parts. He channeled this passion into school robotics and eventually was able to go to college. Macsen had just finished creating an automated mechanical dragon when he met Demelza, who fell in love with both him and his work. As his creations have become more and more lucrative, his young family has become very financially comfortable and neither him nor Demelza has to work anymore, although they both do.
Demelza Rosemary (Overhill) Baharia
Age 33
Occupation History and Art Teacher
Bio Native Born welsh, Demelza grew up in a very happy family and she was always encouraged to follow her dreams. She studied hard in school, particularly enjoying art and history. She often created little simulations for her history classmates to play and she constantly chose different times and places she would most like to live in. She double majored history and art in college, and eventually, after dabbling in curating positions and archaeology, decided to become a teacher. Now she is able to share her passion with her students and her simulations have just gotten better. She met Macsen while getting her teaching degree and the two fell head over heels in love.
Children
Thomas Gerallt Baharia
Age 3
Bio Thomas, fondly called Tomy by his parents and Tam by everyone else, is a bubbly and excitable toddler. He's always wanted a sibling and when his parents told him they were thinking about adopting he was overjoyed by the prospect.
Languages Both Macsen and Demelza speak both Welsh and English fluently. Macsen can passably speak Swahili and Demelza speaks conversational Italian, Arabic, and Hindi.
Nationalities Macsen is Ugandan-Welsh while Demelza is Welsh
Religions Atheist
Location Cardiff, Wales, UK
Adoption
Number preference 1 or 2
Age preference Macsen and Demelza would like one child somewhere near Tam's age (0-6) and they wouldn't be opposed to adopting an older teen as well, but they will only adopt two if they're siblings.
Gender preference None
Nationality preference None
Language preference None
Religion preference They don't particularly care, but preferably not devout.
Would they accept ... ?
-siblings Yes. They will only accept more than one if they're siblings.
-multiples Yes, but only twins.
-children with disabilities or illnesses Minor curable diseases are okay, but the family doesn't know how to deal with other conditions. They especially do not want to deal with fetal drug or alcohol syndrome.
-pregnant teenagers Yes.
-children with teenage parents Yes.
Open adoption or closed adoption? Both are acceptable.
The family can't wait to meet their new member(s)!
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Meet Yvonne Ilia and Margaret Lane, siblings from Africa. Yvonne is 6 and Margaret is 15. Their parents were very poor and placed them in the system as their only hope of having a better future, since their parents didn't want them to suffer in their third-world part of the continent. The adoption is closed since their parents have no way of communicating with them. Yvonne loves to read and dance, while Margaret enjoys science and math - especially chemistry and physics. They are atheists and both speak English and Swahili.
Please keep us informed about how they are doing.
Please keep us informed about how they are doing.
This message was edited 5/1/2017, 7:34 AM
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Meet the Baharia Family!
DH: Macsen Piers Baharia [35; Mechanical Engineer]
DW: Demelza Rosemary (Overhill) Baharia [36; History and Art Teacher]
DD: Margaret Lane "May" Baharia [18]
DD: Yvonne Ilia Baharia [9]
DS: Thomas Gerallt "Tam" Baharia [6]
Location Cardiff, Wales, UK
Three years have passed since the Baharia family welcomed Margaret and Yvonne into their family, and now everyone is settled in happily. Margaret, who struggled at first with the pronounced Welsh accents and the culture shock, slowly became more sociable, though she still prefers the company of her close friends and family rather than social events. After watching a movie with Margaret "May" as a main character she adopted the nickname, which everyone agrees suits her. She has especially taken to Macsen and they recently completed a solar-powered food synthesizer together. Even though the synthesizer can only make grilled cheese sandwiches so far, the machine is definitely advanced for an eighteen-year old and the family is very proud. May's biggest supporter is her younger sister, Yvonne, now nine. Yvonne is a quiet, bookish girl normally, but her family has seen her reveal some brutally sarcastic humor and everyone has seen her change into an exuberant and lively person whenever she dances. Macsen and Demelza support her passion for the art of dance by constantly introducing new types from different cultures. Having explored over thirty types, Yvonne's favorite dance is from her native Kenya and she is already a passionate advocate for positive change in the country. She hopes one day that her birth parents will be able to access internet so she can regain contact with them. Very close with May, Yvonne doesn't look forward to losing her to college next year, but she loves her parents and her little brother and she can't believe how lucky she is to have them. Macsen and Demelza, looking back three years after the adoption, wouldn't change a thing.
(I chose an African country that fit your description, Kenya, for the sake of the storyline. I hope that's all right.)
DH: Macsen Piers Baharia [35; Mechanical Engineer]
DW: Demelza Rosemary (Overhill) Baharia [36; History and Art Teacher]
DD: Margaret Lane "May" Baharia [18]
DD: Yvonne Ilia Baharia [9]
DS: Thomas Gerallt "Tam" Baharia [6]
Location Cardiff, Wales, UK
Three years have passed since the Baharia family welcomed Margaret and Yvonne into their family, and now everyone is settled in happily. Margaret, who struggled at first with the pronounced Welsh accents and the culture shock, slowly became more sociable, though she still prefers the company of her close friends and family rather than social events. After watching a movie with Margaret "May" as a main character she adopted the nickname, which everyone agrees suits her. She has especially taken to Macsen and they recently completed a solar-powered food synthesizer together. Even though the synthesizer can only make grilled cheese sandwiches so far, the machine is definitely advanced for an eighteen-year old and the family is very proud. May's biggest supporter is her younger sister, Yvonne, now nine. Yvonne is a quiet, bookish girl normally, but her family has seen her reveal some brutally sarcastic humor and everyone has seen her change into an exuberant and lively person whenever she dances. Macsen and Demelza support her passion for the art of dance by constantly introducing new types from different cultures. Having explored over thirty types, Yvonne's favorite dance is from her native Kenya and she is already a passionate advocate for positive change in the country. She hopes one day that her birth parents will be able to access internet so she can regain contact with them. Very close with May, Yvonne doesn't look forward to losing her to college next year, but she loves her parents and her little brother and she can't believe how lucky she is to have them. Macsen and Demelza, looking back three years after the adoption, wouldn't change a thing.
(I chose an African country that fit your description, Kenya, for the sake of the storyline. I hope that's all right.)
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I love your continuation of the story. And it's totally fine that you chose Kenya - I was just too lazy to do so, so I'm glad you did. And the machine sounds so cool!
(Sorry for being so informal; I don't have the energy to pretend to be the adoption agency any longer.)
(Sorry for being so informal; I don't have the energy to pretend to be the adoption agency any longer.)
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