Picture it, Toronto, May 25, 2007 on a beautiful spring evening. We met one night out, and the gay stars must have been aligned because we both had on the same pair of shoes! And who doesn’t love a good pair of shoes! Our taste in shoes wasn’t the only thing we had in common! We both wanted to be dads. Only months after we met, we took a Daddies and Papas 2B course at our local LGBT community centre. We always knew we wanted to be parents. We just didn’t know how.
We got engaged in Las Vegas about a year after meeting. Fast forward to August 2, 2010 to our wedding day. Family and friends gathered with us on the rooftop of our condo, impeccable views of the Toronto downtown skyline as the backdrop to this wonderful day. This day was all about love, and the start of our family.
We decided to change careers and we both became high school teachers here in Toronto. Education is something we strongly believe in and being out and open, we wanted to be role models for students struggling with their identity.
In 2012, once we both had permanent teaching positions, and after five years of discussing becoming parents, we embarked on our journey of surrogacy. We found an egg donor right away but finding the right woman to carry our little Milo was more difficult. In May 2013, we found Kathy, the most incredible woman who offered to carry our child. After one failed attempt, In October 2013 we were pregnant and then the countdown began! On June 27, 10 days overdue, we welcomed our little “bubbaloo” to this world, Milo Huxton.
Since Milo has joined our family, we live each day with so much more love, laughter, patience and appreciation for life.
Our birth photo and story has been shared around the world and as educators, we feel it is important to help inform others the importance of skin to skin for newborns, understand surrogacy, and to show the world that family is about love!
ABOUT US
From dancing in the clubs to now dancing in the living room with our son Milo, life has changed just a bit! Popping bottles in the crib takes on a whole new meaning now! We reside in Toronto and are raising our little “Bubbaloo” Milo, who was born via gestational surrogate. We met one night out, and the gay stars must have been aligned because we both had on the same pair of shoes! The rest was history after that! We both decided to change careers and become high school teachers in Toronto. We both enjoy doing community theatre, travelling, spending time with family and friends, and now getting to experience life through our little ones eyes!
SPECIAL THANKS
A very special thank you to Kathy, our guardian angel. We are forever grateful to you. To Kris, Layla, and Jordan, thank you for loving Milo and taking such great care of him for nine months and continuing to love him.
Debbie Donsky, no one loves and supports us like you do! We cannot imagine this adventure without you in it. Thank you for drawing the beautiful illustrations in Milo’s Adventures: A Story About Love and the “Love” drawing for our logo.
Thank you to Lindsay Foster Photography for taking our birth photo that showed the world that Family Is About Love!
We also want to thank our grandmothers, Mary and Helga, who Milo was named after. Thank you for loving us unconditionally, and for always supporting us when it felt no one else did. To our families who have loved and supported us all our lives and now show Milo that same love, thank you for helping us navigate this parenting adventure we are on.
