Hello! We are hopeful adoptive parents, and we are so happy to have the opportunity to share a little bit about ourselves with you. We have made this online profile with a few goals in mind. We want you to understand who we are as people, what motivates us, and what is important to us. We want you to know what our community is like, and what type of place our adopted child would grow up in. We want you to learn about our families, and what types of relationships and traditions hold us together.

Most of all, we want you to know why we want to adopt, and how we hope to be supportive, steadfast, nurturing, and loving parents. We know that you are making a tremendously difficult decision, and we hope that our profile will help in your choice.

With love,
Becca and Ryan

We met 13 years ago when Ryan was in graduate school and Becca was working at a university lab. It was karaoke night at the graduate student club and Ryan asked Becca, who was there with some friends, to help him choose a song to sing! (Very smooth.) We went on our first date the next weekend. As we got to know each other, we discovered that we have lots of shared interests, but we are also very different people, with different personalities and hobbies. We love how we balance one another out, support each other, and challenge each other. We’ve had many adventures together, and we love to travel and spend time with our families and our beloved pets.

We have also been through a lot together. After Ryan finished graduate school, he had to move to the other side of the country for work, and we kept up our relationship over long distance while Becca finished law school. Shortly after Ryan moved came our biggest challenge, when Becca was diagnosed with cancer. It was a scary, painful, and uncertain time, but we stuck together. Ryan flew back and forth across the country almost every week, and Becca fought hard and beat her illness. Our love and our faith in one another grew stronger than ever. In 2018, we got married. In 2019 we moved, at last, to our forever home together in upstate New York! We can’t wait to start our next chapter and to build our family together.

When we got engaged in 2017, we knew that we wanted to build a family together, but we also knew that it would be difficult to have biological children because of Becca’s cancer. We thought hard about the best way to start a family, and we decided to adopt a child. We are so excited to do so.

We believe deeply in sharing our love and blessings with others. We both care immensely about family, and we derive enormous joy and strength from our parents, siblings, nieces and nephews, and extended families. We both have a deep interest in and love for the world around us, and we are eager to see that world anew through the eyes of our child. We enjoy spending time with our niece, nephews, and friends’ children, and we look forward to countless joyous moments of play, wonder, and affection with our future child.

Being a parent is hard work, and we know that raising a child will be incredibly challenging. But we also know it will be incredibly rewarding. We promise to devote our hearts and souls to raising our adopted child. We will dedicate ourselves to making sure our child is loved and appreciated, and grows up with a sense of family, of right and wrong, and of self-worth. We will be vigilant in sustaining our child’s health, education, and happiness. We promise to enter parenthood with full hearts and unwavering dedication.

Thank you so much for reading our book and learning more about us!

With love,
Becca and Ryan