Posted in Adoption, Birthdays, China adoption, Christianity, Video Clips on November 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Yes, the Prairie Family had yet another birthday this week! Kara turned 6 years old on Sunday. She had a very special day!
A special friend’s mother remembered the occasion and brought cupcakes to Sunday School to celebrate Kara’s birthday–that was a sweet and thoughtful surprise! Then the pastor announced that it was her birthday, and [...]
Posted in Abeka Academy, Abeka Academy Weekly Journal, Adoption, China adoption, Club Feet, Homeschool, Syndactyly on October 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yes, this is a Thanksgiving paper! We are enough ahead of schedule, that we are pretty close to Thanksgiving in our schoolwork.
This week I am going to write about something that I really don’t notice much, but that does come up from time-to-time: Kara’s hands. Kara had multiple birth defects, some of which have been [...]
Posted in Adoption, China adoption, Christianity, Family on September 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Three years ago Huang Min Cui from Huangshan, Anhui Province, China, became my daughter. We changed her name to Kara Joy Mincui O’Brien because “Kara” means “pure,” and we were confident that God was bringing our family pure joy when He saw fit to bless us with her. He has truly done that, and I [...]
Posted in Abeka Academy, Adoption, China adoption, Christianity, Homeschool on September 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
From the very first day that Kara joined our family, she has heard us pray at meals and at family devotion time. Even before she could speak English, she would mimic our actions and take her turn to talk to Jesus. As she started to pick up some word, we began to understand how she [...]
Posted in Adoption, China adoption, Christianity, Family on November 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have just learned about yet another family who is facing similar struggles in their adoption process that we faced back in 2006. My heart just breaks every time I hear about these things, and I always agonize in prayer for these dear people while sharing my story with them for encouragement. This family’s blog [...]
Posted in Adoption, China adoption, Family, Video Clips on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kara has never been one to talk a whole lot about her life in China. I really don’t know if she remembers very much–after all, she was only almost three years old when we adopted her!
Today, however, out of the blue she remembered something, and came and told me about it! She started saying a [...]
Posted in Adoption, China adoption, Family on October 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I just learned about a new resource for families who have adopted from China, and I think it is a great idea! It is a database at http://www.ourchinesechildren.com where adoptive families can create a free account and provide basic information about their adopted children (for example: Province, SWI, Chinese Name, Agency, Travel Dates). Then searches of the [...]
Posted in Adoption, China adoption, Family on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have had a lot of fun making the slideshow at the end of this entry. It has brought back special memories of the day that Huang Min Cui became my daughter, Kara Joy Mincui.
A couple of weeks ago as I was getting out fall clothes for Kara, I came across the outfit that she [...]
Posted in Adoption, China adoption, Christianity, Family, Uncategorized on September 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Two years ago during the overnight hours between 9/21 and 9/22 in the USA, an amazing process was taking place clear across the world in Hefei, China: Huang Min Cui became Kara Joy Mincui O’Brien, and our lives have been so richly blessed by her addition into our family ever since that time. [...]
Posted in Adoption, China adoption, Christianity, Club Feet on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few months ago, I received a telephone call from a lady whom I had never met. This lady has since become a special friend. She had found Kara’s adoption story on the internet, and God had used Kara to lead her and her husband to pursue the adoption of a girl with clubbed feet. [...]
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