We are Pierre and Aurélien, we met in 2005 (at the age of pre-smartphone…), celebrating this march our 18th anniversary! (An adulthood) We got married in 2014 and we live in Montréal, CANADA.
We are complementary, which makes our relationship stronger over the years. But the most important thing for us is laughing. We laugh together and one makes the other laugh almost every day. One says that a good laugh is a couple of years of lifetime more. We should probably reach a hundred!
We moved in quickly in 2005 and we moved into FRANCE a couple of times during the first 10 years, purchasing our first house in 2010 in the countryside, near PARIS. We enjoyed our weekend walks with our dog and sharing valuable moments hosting families and friends at ‘home’.
From 2009, we’ve started traveling and exploring the world.
In 2015, we were blessed to go to Australia where we lived for 2 years. It was a great experience to live down under, to confront our values to another culture, meet people who live differently. We learned a lot about ourselves, and how each person is different. This was also a fantastic test for our relationship as moving that far away from your birth country and families is a challenge. It strengthened our couple.
We settled in CANADA in 2018, it was a good compromise between our desire to escape, the closeness with our families and our wish to start a family. We have a lovely, charming house in Montréal and enjoy the countryside thanks to a little farm we acquired in 2020. We now have a good balance between all aspects and can’t wait to welcome kids to that paradise we have created, called ‘home’.
Living around the world has been giving us opportunities to choose our heart family member. We have brothers and sisters all around the globe. All supportive and confident that we’ll be great parents!
Pierre
I am born in 1979 in France in the Great Paris area, in a very rural village of 700 inhabitants. My dad was a general contractor, and my mum was a freelance nurse (going to the patients in and around our village). They both retired in the early 2000 and are now living in the south of France in the Mediterranean coast, traveling as much as they can. I have two older brothers (5 and 10 years older) who gave to our family 5 kids (now aged 12 to 29). Our family reunion became bigger and bigger over the years! Even though some of them are adults now, I remember well when they were young and I took care of them for a long period of time, as my older brother was in the military.
I was at boarding school at a young age and developed a strong taste for discovering new things through reading. I decided to do engineering studies and graduated in 2003 with a master’s degree. During my later years at university, my friends were a big part of my life and no need to say that I enjoyed that great time. On a side note, I was involved for years in several school associations which promoted science to kids and helped them discover some various technical domains especially rocket science.
I entered the public transportation field in 2004, by accident but I am still working in it after 19 years… many positions, countries, cultures, and challenges! I do my best to deliver reliable and efficient public transport for everyone… a key part of our communities, this is how I contribute to society.
Aurelien
I was born in 1982 in Normandie, France, close to the D-day beaches. I french kissed my first mate at the age of 4. I lost my dad when I was 10 and my mum taught me how to persevere, be strong and live with our scars. I experienced bullying during my teenage years because of who I am, but it gave me strength to carry on my own way to adulthood.
Struggling to know what to do in my life, I let a career as an interior designer to embrace a position in a science domain. I left home when I was 20 and since then I have continued to discover myself, others, and the world to stay curious, open-minded, and accomplished.
I have one brother, 10 years older who lives in south of France, and I have 2 fabulous nieces.
Time flies and today I’m in a position where I feel comfortable raising kids and help others to become adult… I have had multiple jobs since I started working, but I ended up working a few years ago as a self-employed graphic designer. All the creativity to serve communication of companies.
We both are really grateful to our parents for the life they gave us. We think now is the time for us to give back, which is why we introduce them to iconic places when they come to visit us. (Québec, rocky mountain, New-York, Las Vegas, …)
It has been a long process personally, psychologically, and financially. We believed it was important to be settled and in a stable situation before welcoming babies in our life. After two years in CANADA, we knew it had this magic and started the process. Covid postponed a bit our dream, but we started in 2021 the process with Create and we have now 06 tested embryos.
We look forward to meeting the woman who will give us the chance to achieve our football team dream and becoming a family.
Settled in Canada for years, we purchased in 2020 a small farm in the countryside where we spend time, relaxing, gathering with friends, or renovating. It tests our ability to repair all the machines we can break, or our capacity to work together.
Our way to discover places is simply by walking around – the country or city walk.
Aurelien is a creative person and always dealing with something related to art: music, design, fashion, interior design, scrap booking, photography. His biggest passion since he was 6 remains dance classes and exhibition. Next rendezvous is in May 2023!
Pierre is a gamer (construction, …), but he has just discovered a cute passion for Asian series. Probably his romantic side 😉
We will support anything related to the pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, and post pregnancy period.
Trust is everything to us. We’d like to develop a relationship based also on honesty, transparency, and openness. Therefore, we will establish a contract to ensure that things are clear on the money side, and we will make sure that there is a mechanism to adjust during the process as things can evolve. We will provide advance to make sure that you don’t have to worry about money.
We are very respectful of any kind of relation our surrogate is expecting to have with us. We consider that support and understanding are key elements in this journey and understanding means knowing each other to avoid any issue.
We want to be involved as much as possible but with respect for privacy and it needs to be something you and your family are comfortable with.
We are ready to travel as much as needed, but we also step forward into 20’s, got smartphone, facebook, messenger, Instagram, whatsapp …