Hello! My name is Lizzie. I want to thank you for taking the time to review my profile and consider me as part of your adoption plan. My hope is that this gives you some insight into who I am as a person, what type of mother I would be, and the environment in which I’d raise a child. I sincerely appreciate the opportunity to share a little bit about myself as you make what I expect is a difficult decision.

I’ll preface this by saying that were we meeting for the first time in person, I’d much rather hear about you than talk about myself, but I think it’s important you have insight into who I am as a woman, a daughter, a friend, an “aunt,” a professional, and who I expect to become as a mother. 

I’m someone who thinks things through. I didn’t come to the decision to adopt without a lot of consideration, and I wouldn’t assume I’d be selected to raise a child without similar consideration. On some level I’ve always considered adoption (I had conversations about it as far back as college and have always known that love extends beyond biological ties), but my initial vision of adoption early on wasn’t as a single parent, and I didn’t take that lightly. What I know to my core is that I am prepared to raise a child and to provide the physical, financial, and emotional stability that a child needs to flourish.