Dear Birth Mother
Dear Birth Mother,
First off, we would like to thank you for taking the time to learn more about our loving family.
We are Eran, Einat, and Leo, and we are looking to share the our love with another child. Leo is our beloved biological son who is so ready for a brother or sister, and talks about it all the time. It took as a few years of treatment to have him and there was risk to Einat’s health, so for our second child we decided we wanted to adopt. We are a fun family who love to make each other laugh, go out to wander the city and never take life too seriously.
It’s hard to summarize who we are in a few paragraphs, but here goes… We are happily married best friends who have been together since high school! While we have a large extended family that all live in Israel, we moved to the US in 2013 for work and decided to stay for good. We love California, especially the Bay Area, the people, and the endless sun. Your child would have an amazing loving family full of grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins. Israel is full of beaches, culture and freedom and is a great place to vacation in the summer. We have been through it all as a couple, through difficult times and better times, and we always support each other. We love to spend our time with Leo the most, but sometimes sneak a few hours to ourselves to go eat some yummy food, see a movie (when it was possible) or go to a gallery in San Francisco. We also love reality cooking shows and wish someone would come out of the screen and hand us that cooked meal!
Fun facts about us:
// Einat used to be fluent in Arabic. These days she might understand you and answer right back in Hebrew or English
// The second Einat get home she is in her pajamas.
// We are hipsters wannabes. After all, we are obsessed with our coffee rituals. // Once we spent two months on a beach in Brazil
// We never cooked more than an omelet until Leo was born and we moved to the other side of the world
// We once took a jewelry class together
// In 2005 we decided to sell all our things, take a break from life and go travel the world for a year, we backpacked through all of South America taking in the culture, the nature and the endless sense of freedom. That’s when we also decided to learn Spanish.
Einat is a stay-at-home mom, designer and blogger (in that order). I’m a chill person and don’t stress over things. I trust my gut feeling and don’t listen much to outside noise. I’m a hugger and a kisser. I make time to make things beautiful. I love to make delicious salads. My tourist advice about San Francisco, Tel Aviv, and anywhere else I lived or visited is always the very best and I love exploring the street of whichever city I land in. I enjoy getting to know new artists and forms of art and love visiting artists’ studios. Going on a color photo walk around SF is always a fave. Beach time is the best time, especially during the weekend. My absolute fave activity is hunting for the most beautiful and design forward coffee shops. Visiting design galleries and art museums is always high on my list.
I grew up in a fun and loving family that spent every moment together. We had lots of play time with our parents and our weekends were filled with beach, hiking and other adventures. Around the age of 17, my father and mother were dealing with difficulties in their marriage, which affected life for me and my brothers. I became more distant with my mother for a few years, especially after moving out of the house around the age of 21. Things improved a lot since then, and the space between us helped reduce tensions and today we have a good relationship. She is involved in our son’s life (birthdays, visits, phone calls) and is happy for our choice to adopt another child. There is nothing more important than family sticking together and supporting each other and I make sure in invest all my heart towards that, especially after going through this path with my own mom. I am a full time mother first, before my hobbies and writing, and will give all my attention to raising our future child, same as for our first son Leo. For example, every Friday I pick Leo up from school and we dedicate two hours for a Mommy-Son activity. I take him to get his favorite Horchata Boba, and then we play some card games on our fave picnic blanket, play a bit of ping-pong game at the main square or do some other activity in the park. Leo loves this time and every Friday morning, will say, “today is mommy time! I can’t wait to do the same with my future child.
Eran is an engineering manager, an amateur skateboarder and our very own home cook!
I work at one of the top 3 tech companies in the world, which is demanding, but I am in control of my schedule, so I often arrange my schedule around my son’s day to max out on Daddy time.
There is nothing more important to me than spending time with him and it will be the same with our future child! I love playing imaginary games with kids, taking them on pretend adventures, saving princess, fighting evil monsters. I have invented a ton of games, such as “the sock game” (throwing socks at Daddy while he has to duck) and the “kiss monster” (Daddy puts a blanket over his head and chases Leo around until I catch him giving him a blast of belly kisses). I can guarantee that I will play all these games and invent more for our future child!
At a very young age, I moved to Canada with my parents for their work. I have very fond memories of playing the snow with my sister. We then moved back to Israel where I lived until moving to the US in 2013.
At the age of 18, I joined the Israeli Army for 3 years and gained many life skills, especially how to make do with what you have and learned great leadership skills, which I use to this day as a manager. After that, I went to college to pursue my passion for computers and got my bachelor’s degree in computer science. I have been working in tech ever since and love the ability to create products that affect the lives of so many people in the world.
Leo, our 6-year-old son, constantly talks about how much he would like to have a little brother or sister.
Every teacher Leo has ever had always say that Leo has a huge heart and he always takes care of his friends and their needs. After a long difficult period of trying to conceive, Leo came to us in 2014.
It is important to us that Leo grows up with siblings to support each other and grow older together.
We both grew up with brothers and sisters and know how important it can be. If you choose us, your child will grow up with endless love, parents who put family before anything else, and a big brother to share her life with.
As we see Leo grow, we can promise you that your child will be an explorer of the world, multicultural human, and an independent thinker who will be cherished and nourished every day of the week.
Our Community
We are part of a multicultural community in the San Francisco Bay Area. People from across the US and the world come here to work in Silicon Valley. Since our families live far away, our friends and neighbors are our family. We celebrate holidays together, meet on the weekends and have playdates for kids in the afternoon.
There are some holiday activities and a few weekly activities such as a Friday picnic in our local park with many families. Most of our friends in the community have kids Leo’s age and we often meet often on weekends for outdoor or indoor time together.
You child, will enjoy their pick of after school classes. Leo is currently in – karate, drama class, hip hop dance class, soccer, and gymnastics.
Our Family & Friends
Our extended family live mostly outside of the US and we see them twice a year, for spring break and for the long summer break. Your child will get to spend time with a large warm hearted loving family. Einat has two younger brothers, Hen (the doctor) and Or, and three aunts (Zahava, Sigi, and Gina) each with their own families of two to three kids each and grandchildren. Eran has a sister, Adi, who has two kids (Shir – 6 and Omer – 8) and an uncle with three children. His kids are Shay, who lives in the US, Omri, and Idan, who has 2 children (Itai – 1 and Ariel – 3). There are a lot of people waiting to meet our future child and shower them with love. Israel is very sunny with Mediterranean weather, so we spend most of our time there at the beach.
When we are back at home in the Bay, our friends and neighbors are our family. Inbal and Jonathan are have three kids, Tom (9), Tamar (7), and Uri (3). We meet with them every weekend, have dinners, go to parks, hike and vacation together.
Rachel and Josh have two kids, Vincent and Issac. Leo is best friends with them and calls them his “brothers”.
We have many more friends who are our substitute family and support system and your child will be loved by all.
Please feel free to reach out with questions or if you would like more information about us. We would be honored if you consider us to adopt your child and we look forward to hearing from you.
Einat and Eran