Nope, It’s Not!

    So, the answer to the question in my last entry is this:  no, that is not Kara on TV, but it sure is a close resemblance!  And there is a story….. Five years ago, we were getting ready to go to China to adopt a little girl.  We had planned and dreamed about [...]

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A Video that Makes Me Stop to Think

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Golden Dragon Acrobats

This afternoon I took Cosette and Kara to the Golden Dragon Acrobats program.  I thought that it would be neat for Kara to see these talented performers from China, and needless to say, she was delighted!  :) It sure made me miss China.  I brought home a very special treasure from China, but I still [...]

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Miracles Happen

  As I wrote in my last entry, while Kara was in surgery last week, I stayed in her hospital room to wait.  While there, I noticed the little bear that our church gave to Kara sitting on her bed with her glasses.  The message on the bear’s tummy said “Miracles Happen.”  I sat there [...]

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Kara’s Dental Surgery

Boy, have things been crazy around here for the last several weeks!  We have been running so much, that my regular to-do list around home has been getting longer and longer and LONGER.  I decided several days ago to start getting up between 5:00 and 5:30 just to whittle away at my list, and I [...]

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Kara’s Annual Ortho Appointment

Today was Kara’s annual checkup with Dr. G. for her clubbed foot.  Overall, things are looking pretty good.  She does turn her foot in, and that is not improving at all.  Dr. G. said that there are two things that are contributing to that, and that really it’s something that she has to live with. [...]

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Mismatched Size Pairs of Shoes Available

UPDATE:  The shoes have been spoken for by a family who can use them! Praise God!  I will post more shoes on this blog at a later time when we accumulate more pairs of the mismatched sizes.  So if you are in need of some (large left, small right) don’t hesitate to let me know [...]

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My Story, Part 6: God’s Way is PERFECT

“We are in China.”  Those were the words that my sister-in-law Kyleen whispered to me as our plane landed in Shanghai.  I can’t begin to explain the feelings I had at that time.  Excitement, nervousness, fear all mixed together.   We were on the doorstep of an adventure of a lifetime, and I had the [...]

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My Story, Part 5: The Paper Chase

In 2003, God began to stir my heart. I did not hear any “voices from Heaven” or anything, but God’s still, small voice began speaking to my innermost soul. Even though I had been richly blessed with four wonderful children and had been advised medically not to have any more babies, I was unsettled. In [...]

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My Story, Part 4: Huang Min Cui

Please note:  Most of the information in this entry is accurate, but because Huang Min Cui’s history  is sketchy at best, some of the details (especially of the birth family) are speculative–how I like to think of them. My story takes a break for this entry to make way for the amazing story of a [...]

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