Meet Simon and Chelsea
- Occupations
- civil union in France
- Lifestyle
- Loving, family-oriented household
- Openness
- Open Adoption
Our Story
We’re Chelsea and Simon, and we’re excited to start our family through adoption. We’re a warm, fun, slightly adventurous pair who love our home, our little everyday rituals, and the people around us. We’ve both always pictured a family filled with love, curiosity, and laughter, and we’re ready to give a child all the stability and joy we can.
We don’t currently have children, and building a family hasn’t been a simple road for us. We explored different paths, including surrogacy, and eventually realized that biology wasn’t what mattered to us. What matters is creating a family based on love, connection, and commitment.
Simon (French) & Chelsea (American) met on the app “OK Cupid” in Dublin, Ireland in 2018. We hit it off from our first date and had an instant connection. What surprised both of us was how different we were from each other, and yet how well we both understood each other so well. In 2021, we got a “PACS”, which is a civil union in France. In 2023, Chelsea proposed to Simon (and he said yes!). In 2025, we got married in a small and beautiful ceremony near our home in England.
Simon spent most of his life living abroad before settling in the UK. He has travelled to more than 35 countries and loves discovering the world. He has a career in technology and volunteers as an emergency medical responder (EMT), one of his biggest passions. He also loves DIY and woodworking.
Chelsea is American and a big animal lover, she’s been a vegetarian for 20 years. She works in nonprofit organizations around the world on issues like poverty and conflict. When she was 25, she moved to Ireland by herself. Having lived in New York City for years, she decided to finally go live abroad, a dream she had had all her life.
Why We Want to Adopt
We’re Chelsea and Simon, and we’re excited to start our family through adoption. We’re a warm, fun, slightly adventurous pair who love our home, our little everyday rituals, and the people around us. We’ve both always pictured a family filled with love, curiosity, and laughter, and we’re ready to give a child all the stability and joy we can.
Our Life and Lifestyle
Our families are split across the US (Florida, North Carolina, NY, NJ) and France (Paris, Lyon, Burgundy). We visit the US and France throughout the year to spend time with family and childhood friends, attend weddings, baby showers, graduations, and birthdays, and vacation.
We couldn’t talk about our family without talking about our cat, Arthur! We can’t imagine our lives without him. He has a very strong personality and has us wrapped around his finger! (or maybe paw?)
Looking into the future, we’d like to raise two children. Because of Simon’s citizenship, they will be both American and French, and we plan to teach them to speak both English and French.
We want to make sure they have as many opportunities as they can possibly have. That includes a stable home, a good education, a safe, walkable neighborhood, access to nature and parks, and the chance to explore the world. We believe adoption should be seen as something beautiful, celebrated and spoken about openly.
Thank you so much for taking the time to get to know us.
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What We Hope for the Future
We’re Chelsea and Simon, and we’re excited to start our family through adoption. We’re a warm, fun, slightly adventurous pair who love our home, our little everyday rituals, and the people around us. We’ve both always pictured a family filled with love, curiosity, and laughter, and we’re ready to give a child all the stability and joy we can.
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