Thanks for your support

Thank you so much for your support to help us bring Rachel home. My life is such that I just do not have time to work on klippies. And to help another adoptive family, I sent all of my klippie supplies to them. In fact, if you want to check with that family they are fundraising to bring home their daughter and can find their story here. You can check with Michele to see if they are creating klips.

You can also find bows at another friend (Julie)'s website who is fundraising to bring home their daughter here. I know that Julie had just created some for an upcoming garage sale and posted some pictures. You can email her for more details as she has some some super cute ones! My friend, Alena, is making hair clips and has them posted on Facebook--look for Alena's Girly Girl Accessories. Another great website for hair clips is Sydney So Sweet.

Again thank you so much for your support. It was fun to make the klips and see them in the hair of precious little (and big!) girls!

T-shirt Fundraiser

We designed these tees with all proceeds going to the Bring Rachel Home fund!

They come in light pink with brown writing or black with white writing.

Sizes (in BOTH colors) available:

Regular tee shirts $15
(they seem to run a bit big)
Small
Medium
Large
X Large
XX Large

Women's fitted tees: $17
(they seem to run a bit small)
Small
Medium
Large
X Large

Kids's tees: $10
Small (6/8)
Medium (10/12)

Click HERE to order your shirt!

NEW Large Clip

Moonlight
Beautiful, soft flower. It's a big one at 5 inches!
(I do have 1 that is about 4 inches)
Very cute.
$5 (includes shipping)

New Medium clips!

NEW! Deep Violet
Super cute. The picture does NOT do it justice!
Lavender gem center (I can also do clear)
$4

NEW! Olive (only 1 available!)
Clear gem center
The fall sun was NOT working with me!
$4

NEW! Squash
A pretty fall orange--reminds me a bit of squash
Clear Gem center
$4

Christmas Frenzy

Stacy at My Cup Overfloweth just returned from China with their son, Solomon. She knows the struggles to raise funds when you are adopting and has created a Christmas Frenzy. She is providing an opportunity for families who are in the process of adopting and are fundraising to post their items in one place. It also provides families who are looking for Christmas gifts and want to help others an opportunity to purchase items. Head over there and see what she and others are selling. I think people have just begun adding their items, so check back frequently!

OH, and she's doing a giveaway for those who are purchasing! Don't forget to check that out, too! And maybe you can win a Christmas gift...or a special gift for you!

Site Guide

To see the different klips I have designed, click on the tabs across the top of the page. They come in Large, Medium, Small and Just Klippies. All clips are lined with velvet ribbon to help the clips stay in place (and they do!). You won't be disappointed in the quality of these klips.

ALL money earned from the sale of the hair klips go 100% to funding the adoption of our 2nd daughter from China. Rachel is 13 yrs old and waiting for us! We're hoping to travel in April or May!

Thank you so much for helping us bring Rachel home!!!

Why we're doing all of this...

Maybe some are wondering why we have opted to adopt from China again. And maybe even more some are wondering why we have chosen to adopt a teenager from China. I have had people ask me “why not adopt a teenager from here?” And maybe others are wondering the same question.

There are many reasons why we feel this child—YangLan (soon to be Rachel)—is the child we want to bring into our family. First, we do not want Megan to be the only Chinese person in our family. Why does this matter to us? Well, sometimes adopted children feel like they are “different” because they are the only one in their family who does “fit” or doesn’t look like someone else. Does that mean Megan will feel this way? No, but she might. And we want her to have someone who has a similar heritage as her in our family.

Second—and potentially most importantly—is Rachel’s age. See in China, on an orphan’s 14^th birthday, they “age out”. They are no longer eligible for services and can no longer live in the orphanage. For a child—age 14—who has lived in an environment where everything was done for them (cooking, cleaning, laundry, etc.), they have little to no survival skills. There are several different non-profits that offer programs at some orphanages to help children have a trade skill for when they age out. These trades may be ironing, laundry, computers, etc. And I would venture to guess that with the American child labor laws, few—if any—are able to work in factories. This leaves few other options for them to survive, prostitution being one of them.

We never expected to adopt from China again. In fact, back in 1998 or 1999 when I first felt called to adopt from China (and began praying for our daughter in China), I believed we only had one daughter in China. When we began the process to bring Megan home, I firmly believed we would only go back to China to visit—one day. However, since we got home with Megan, I’ve wanted her to have a sibling. With her continuing sleep problems, we really felt adding a child younger than Megan may not be the best solution for us. Besides, we are not getting any younger! I’m not sure if at my age I want to do the baby-thing again. I’m not saying starting to parent a child who has 13 years of history before us is going to be easy, but I’m going to venture to guess she’s sleeping through the night! LOL. However, once we truly discussed and decided to pursue an adoption of an older child, I realized all these years I have been praying for both Megan and Rachel. How amazing is God?!

I’ve also recently realized that most don’t know the story of Megan—well, the part I can share! When we shared with our friends and family that we were beginning the process to adopt from China, it was a little more than a year after Ian had died. Within about six weeks, God brought us over $21,000 to completely fund the adoption having done virtually nothing! Now, we had to wait for over two years to bring her home, but we never questioned whether we were on the right path because we knew this was God’s plan for at that time. This time, we are not questioning God’s timing because we know Rachel can’t wait much longer—she turns 14 in September! We are trusting He will handle the finances this time around, too! So, we are doing things like the ipad giveaway, selling hair clips, garage sale, consignment sales, selling t-shirts, applying for grants, working overtime, etc. to obtain the funds to bring Rachel home.