Im Eve!

Near San Francisco, California

www.facebook.com/ AdoptionHelpEveMakeA Family

Thank you for reading my profile!

Dear Birthmother, Ive written this as a kind of letter to you, so that you might get a sense of who I am and the kind of parent I plan to be. I know that this might be a hard time for you, and Im hoping I can be an option to help. Ive been looking forward to being someones mom for as long as I can remember, and Im excited about doing it through an open adoption. I have a lot of love to share and open adoption feels right to me. I would be thrilled if you would consider me to be your babys mom, and I look forward to hearing from you! ---Eve
Please contact me through Adoption Consultants Inc., 1-800-605-4588 www.adoptionconsultantsinc.com

Me with my nephew Diego when he was a baby and now.

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My house is usually full of loving friends and family, with lots of kids running around inside and in my yard. Theyve all been waiting excitedly to welcome and spend time with my baby. My friends and family describe me as funny, smart, loving, and honest. Im known for making up funny songs, especially when Im with kids. I know Im going to make up tons of silly songs and dances for my baby. Luckily, my family and friends have a great sense of humor about this, and I love to make them laugh.

Enjoying fresh veggies with my nephew Camilo

I understand that in choosing someone to raise your child, you might wonder if a single woman could raise a child with a rich and full family, and with the positive male and female role models youd want. That question makes total sense to me. I feel confident that I have everything one could want in a parent. I know a lot about children of all ages, having taken care of my friends children and my nephews, and having devoted my life to working with kids and teenagers.

Having friends over for dinner. I love to cook!

The things that are most important to me are being kind and compassionate, loving, forgiving, honest, keeping to my word, and working hard to be the best I can be. For my entire life I will be learning how to be a better me.

Me with my cat Iggy

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I grew up in a wonderful neighborhood in New York City. My sister Danielle and I had friends from many different backgrounds. I am so grateful that my parents raised us in that type of environment, because I grew up comfortable and knowledgeable about different cultures. This has helped me so much as an adult, both in my work as an educator and in my personal life. Ive worked in very diverse settings where it has been important for me to understand people from different backgrounds. I think growing up in the community that I did pushed me to always want to understand other peoples experiences and perspectives, not solely my own. Below, you can see my second grade class!

In front of the building where I grew up in NY, with a childhood friend.

Im in the third row down all the way on the left.

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I feel like Ive been preparing for this moment since then. After graduating from high school, I was very focused on getting through college, going to graduate school, starting my career, and buying a home. I wanted to do all of those things to prepare myself to be a great mom to my child when the time

was right.

For years adoption has felt right to me. Ive never tried to get pregnant; I always thought I would create a family this way. I believe it is important for my child to know his or her birthmother and birth family. We will all be important parts of this childs family. Id like to keep in touch and see each other at least once a year, if this is something that you might enjoy as well! In addition to that, I hope we can talk on the phone, send emails, and share pictures and information online. Two of my close friends created their family through Adoption Consultants, Inc., and have a wonderful relationship with their sons birthmother. They visit her once a year. She and her family are an extended part of their family.

Temporary foster baby Ruby

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As practice for when I become a mom, Ive fostered two children who were in need of a temporary home. One was a teenager named Michael, and the other was a baby, Ruby. I was happy to be able to provide a loving and stable home for those two children during intense transitions in their lives. I loved having them here and sharing my home, and it has only made me even more excited to become a mother to my own, permanent child now! Through those experiences I learned that open adoption really does feel right to me. I want to know my child from birth, and be able to provide him or her with contact with their biological family.

Temporary foster baby Ruby

My nephew Camilo helping feed foster baby Ruby

Temporary foster child Michael with his trumpet

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I grew up in a very loving family in New York City, and since then weve all relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area. I share a two family house with my sister Danielle and her family. I drive my nephews Camilo and Diego to school several days a week, and spend lots of time with them. Our parents Mark and Barbara live an hour away, and visit us every week. Our grandfather Popi, whos 96, lives just a few blocks away.
Me with my parents Barbara and Mark

My parents on their recent trip to Japan

My mom and sister laughing

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My home is walking distance from parks, playgrounds, the library, great schools, stores and restaurants.

In the summer, my grandfather loves to go with us to outdoor movies in the parks near our house. We usually bring a picnic dinner, and my nephews play with their friends until the movie starts. Once the sun goes down, we bundle up and drink hot chocolate! Last summer we saw Up and Kung Fu Panda 2.
Getting ready for the movie in the park with my grandfather Popi

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My parents live about an hour away in Santa Cruz, a beach town with a fun boardwalk with roller coasters, bumper cars, and lots of other rides and games. I hope one day my child and my nephews will take surf lessons out there, while spending time with their grandparents.

My mom and Dad visit every weekend. Here my dad Mark is holding my nephew Diego.

Mima, as my nephews call my mother, loves to do art activities with Camilo and Diego. She brings over paints, markers, glue, ribbon, glitter, and old paper towel rolls, egg cartons anything they can get creative with!

My mom doing art with my nephews in my backyard

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I take my nephews to lots of fun places!

In front of the Washington Monument with my nephews Diego and Camilo and our cousin Lucas. My nephews Camilo and Diego at the National Zoo in Washington DC

Last summer we took a trip to Washington, DC. It is important to me to take my child to see our nations capital as well.

Camilo and I had fun building an electric car at a local science museum

Two summers ago I took Camilo to visit cousins at the beach in Cape Cod. This was his first lobster.

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I was married for seven years, and we were in the process of trying to adopt a child. We were working within the foster care system, but a year into that process, we realized that even though we really loved each other, there were things we each wanted that we couldnt give each other. He was having cold feet about becoming a parent, while I was sure becoming a parent was precisely what I wanted to do. In fact, Id been waiting for years. That was three years ago, and we are still friends. We share our sweet dog Lulu, who spends time with each of us at home. Lulu is now five years old, and very sweet and gentle. On weekends, friends and I take her on trail hikes in the large parks in our area. She loves to run around, sniff everything, and play with other dogs.
She and my nephew Camilo have a special bond he loves to play fetch with her in our backyard, and he sneaks her little snacks when Im not looking!

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"Eve and I met 15 years ago when we were teaching and I was pregnant with my 3rd child. We quickly became close friends, and shes played a special role in our family's life since then. Eve was in the hospital with my husband and I for Jordans birth, and she helped us through many parenting moments when our older boys were teenagers. We sent our boys to the high school she was working at because it was such a great public school and we knew shed keep an eye out for them. When they started college, they moved into the apartment above her house, so they could have their first experience of living separately from us, as adults, but with family close by. I cant wait to be 'Auntie' Soraya and support Eve in motherhood, the same way she has for me."

Me and one of my closest friends Soraya at the iceskating rink

With Sorayas family for a birthday celebration at their house

One of my other close friends Michelle is a runner. One day, I brought her kids Joey and Ty to watch her finish a half marathon in San Francisco.

We always celebrate Christmas with my moms side of the family. I cant wait to share these traditions with my child. I know well bake cookies, decorate the house, and sing carols together.

My sister Danielle and I at Christmas when we were kids

My sister Danielle and I at Christmas last year One of our handmade Christmas ornaments

"My sister is my best friend. Shes one of the warmest, smartest, most generous people I know. When my babies were born, she was there with me, helping at each step as I got used to being a mom. Now my 2 sons constantly run back and forth to their Tia Eves house. They love having her read, play games, do arts and crafts, and cook with them. When its her turn to become a mom, Ill be there for her, 24/7. I cant wait to meet my new niece or nephew!"

Every fall, we take my nephews to a harvest festival on a farm in Santa Cruz, near where my parents live. Over the years, weve developed really fun traditions, including our annual Halloween dinner and trick or treating. My nephews choosing pumpkins and gourds

We all dress up in costumes, including my grandfather Popi, who always dresses as a pirate! We live in a neighborhood that has lots of families, and we get lots of trick-or-treaters.

At our annual Halloween party, heres Popi, my godson Jordan, and his dad Greg. Im holding our friend Asha, and my sister Danielle is holding Camilo.

We also have a great yard for birthday parties, and the kids always love a piata. At Diegos 5th birthday party he really tried to break it, but it took all of the kids to finally get it open. My sister Danielle is a great baker,

and she always makes homemake cakes.

My nephew Diego hitting his piata I really love feeding people and making sure everyone is having a good time, so when we have parties like this, Im usually the hostess. I run around and make sure everyone has what they need and make sure theres enough food out. Its nice to have family and friends here, and to watch our friends children grow and change. I will be so happy when my child will be here to join in all the fun!

Here, one of my nieces Alina and I were looking longingly at the chocolate cake Danielle made for Diego, which was amazing!

In our backyard, my godson Jordan painted the kids faces, and they all jumped in the bouncy house for hours!

Every year we dye eggs with the kids a few days before Easter. My sister always hides eggs, candy and Easter baskets, and they have fun searching for them. Later in the day, we get together with my parents and grandfather for an Easter meal, and spend the rest of the day as a family.

My nephews Camilo and Diego on Easter morning

We are Christian and Jewish, from New York, California and Chile. We speak English and Spanish, and celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah, Easter and Passover, July 4th as well as Chilean Independence Day.
Eating my homemade holiday soup!

These holiday traditions from both religions remind me to make the world a better place. This is one of the values I learned from my parents, and it guides my life.

I plan to teach all of these traditions and values to my child.

For the past 16 years, I have worked as a middle and high school teacher and as a high school principal.
I have worked in schools in San Francisco and Oakland that are doing dynamic, creative work with young people. I loved it, but now that Im hoping to become a new mom, I left my position as principal last year. Being a principal of a high school is a pretty demanding position, and it doesnt leave a lot of time to raise a child.

I now have a much more flexible job evaluating schools in my district. My new position lets me get home by early afternoon and have weekends and holidays off, as well as several weeks in the summer. In addition to having much more free time to be a mom, this position is giving me the chance to get to know all of the elementary schools in my area which will be very important in choosing the best school for my child! It is important to me that my child attends a school with a strong academic program and arts classes. Its important to me that learning is fun and interesting! I will send him or her to a school where children treat each other kindly and are taught to resolve their conflicts with words. Im looking forward to volunteering in my childs classroom, because I know how helpful that is to teachers, and Im excited to watch my child grow and learn at school, as well as at home.

Becoming a mom is now my top priority!

On a field trip to San Francisco with my students a few years ago.

People who work with me know that I will fight for what I believe to be right. I have strong opinions about education, but I can also be silly and make everyone laugh.

Photos from my years of teaching and being a principal.

Last year, one of my former students was finishing college and living with his family. Hes lucky to have a large and loving family, but with his siblings, their friends, his little sister, his older sisters baby, and a cousin who just came from Mexico, it was hard for him to study at home and he wanted to finish his last semester of college strong. He stayed with me for several months as he finished college. This is how I live. When someone needs something, if I can give it, I do.

When Huber was in 10th grade, he was having a hard time watching many of his friends from elementary school drop out of high school and become involved with illegal activity.
In this photo, my student Huber was presenting his Senior Project here we are with another teacher.

He wanted to travel and see a different part of the world, and so my family connected him with the people we know in Chile. He spent the summer there, living with a family and going to school, and it changed his perspective. He hadnt known many middle class professional Latinos before that, and I didnt want him to think that there arent any! I didnt want him to think he had to act white to go to college or do something important with his life.

He returned from that summer knowing that he can be Latino and be a success, and he has been!

Eve has played a key role in my personal and professional and academic life. She plays the role of a second mother in my life, and I know she does that for many other former students as well. While in my last semester of college at UC Berkeley, four years after graduating from MetWest High School where she was my teacher and then my principal, she allowed me to stay with her while I was struggling and facing many obstacles. My mom was relieved that Eve helped me out. She has known Eve since I was in 10th grade, and trusts her completely. She knew Eve would watch out for me like I was her own child, and help me finish college and figure out the next steps in becoming an adult. My mom immigrated here from Mexico, doesnt speak much English, and didnt go to college, so knowing adults like Eve has been really important to our whole family. In my last semester of college I was facing a huge crossroads in my life, and I wasnt always making good decisions. Eve treated me with kindness, and provided me with feedback that was hard to hear sometimes, but was indeed helpful. I stayed with her for six months and in addition to finishing college I made great personal positive leaps in my life. Right after I gave Huber his high school diploma as his principal

While I was living with her she provided me with advice when I felt ungrounded and not myself. Besides letting me stay in her extra bedroom (her future babys room), she pushed me to be my best self just like she did when I was her high school student. I love her so much for the nurturing and unconditional love she has given me, and that she gives all of her students. When I needed a place to stay to finish college, Eve is one of the adults that I thought might help me, and she did. Shes that kind of person. She has one of the biggest hearts, can make you laugh even when youre crying, and I admire her SO much. Someday, I hope to be as wise and loving as she is.

Ive traveled to France, Spain, Jamaica, and Hungary with my family. Ive visited Cambodia, Mexico, and Costa Rica with friends. I love visiting different places, and cant wait to take my child to some of my favorite spots around the world! Ive taken students with me to present about our unique and successful school at Education conferences in Australia and Denver, Colorado. Over the years I have sung in several groups, which have taken me to England, Mexico, and Chile to perform. For five years I sang in a Latin American musical group, and we traveled to Chile and Mexico to perform. When we were in Chile, I got to meet my brother in laws whole family. We really did have class on the beach in Brazil! Here I am with colleagues discussing essays wed written while enjoying fresh coconut water!

Here I am with a group of dance students in Cambodia.

In this picture, I was in Chiapas, Mexico visiting an indigenous community it may have been the only time in my life when I was considered tall!!!

Last year I had the opportunity to attend a conference for principals in Rio de Janiero. I traveled with several other principals from Oakland, and we had an amazing time comparing the public education systems in California and Brazil.

Over the years, Ive been at the births of both of my nephews, as well as a number of friends children. I love spending time with the kids in my life, and know that I really want to be more than an aunty to a little person.

Sitting with my sister Danielle holding my nephew Diego. He was 1 week old!

Ive wanted to become a mom through adoption since my early twenties, when I realized that my strong desire to be a mom didnt need to come through having my own child, nor being married. Ive traveled around the world and seen many children in orphanages. Ive worked with many children in the foster care system, and have close friends who were adopted themselves, as well as those who have adopted children. One of my closest friends placed her first child with another family when she was younger, and so I have always had a deep appreciation for the love and courage of women who make this choice.

Reading to my friends twin daughters

I know that love is what makes a family, and I am excited to share my love and my family and community with a child.

I hope youve gotten a sense of who I am, and the kind of mother Ill be. The baby who comes into my life will also get my whole wonderful community of family and friends, and they will have a full and rich life. Im very excited to meet you, and to learn what your hopes and dreams are for this special little baby. I believe each child is unique and arrives in this life with special characteristics, talents and passions, and that each one will follow a unique path in their lives. I believe that the adults in their lives (parents, aunties and uncles, grandparents, teachers and coaches) all need to recognize what is special about each child, and nurture and support them. I am so excited to bring a baby into my life and my home. I'm looking forward to sharing in all the joys of life, and being there to comfort her or him in the difficult moments. I know this is going to be an amazing and wonderful journey.

I cant wait to hear from you!

Please contact me through Adoption Consultants Inc., 1-800-605-4588 www.adoptionconsultantsinc.com

You can also check me out at: www.facebook.com/AdoptionHelpEveMakeAFamily