Mei-Li (Olivia) and Norah (Rachel)
Monday, February 23, 2009
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Virginia at SIX Months!
People often ask me how it is that we have such beautiful babies. I am not sure. I do not look at them and think I only want the beautiful ones and choose them based on that. When I got Virginia I was looking for a heart baby and I hardly saw her face. When we got home I was so surprised because she looked like Breanna, who looked like Antoinette when they were babies. I took these pictures of Virginia in the space of about 30 minutes. One really cute thing....about a third of the pictures she had her tongue sticking out. Virginia has got such a sweet personality and smiles so easily when you kiss her hands. She just loves jumping the the jumperoo.
Life, Love and Laughter,
Amanda
Starfish Foster Home
Xian China
At Starfish, we have taken care of 67 children to date, arranged almost 50 surgeries and had a whopping 18 international adoptions, so our little starfishes live all over the globe: the US (latest adoptions to Kentucky and New Jersey), Netherlands, Norway and Spain. Two children are matched at the moment waiting for their families. We currently have 30 babies under the age of 3 1/2 at two foster homes. We just opened a new cleft palate house on February 5, 2009.
www.thestarfishfosterhome.org
http://chinesestarfish.blogspot.com
NEW BLOG SITE FOR CLEFT HOME:
http://chinesestarfishcleft.blogspot.com
chinese.starfishthrower@gmail.com
Cell: 86.1348.812.4847
Life, Love and Laughter,
Amanda
Starfish Foster Home
Xian China
At Starfish, we have taken care of 67 children to date, arranged almost 50 surgeries and had a whopping 18 international adoptions, so our little starfishes live all over the globe: the US (latest adoptions to Kentucky and New Jersey), Netherlands, Norway and Spain. Two children are matched at the moment waiting for their families. We currently have 30 babies under the age of 3 1/2 at two foster homes. We just opened a new cleft palate house on February 5, 2009.
www.thestarfishfosterhome.org
http://chinesestarfish.blogspot.com
NEW BLOG SITE FOR CLEFT HOME:
http://chinesestarfishcleft.blogspot.com
chinese.starfishthrower@gmail.com
Cell: 86.1348.812.4847
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Ian's 8th Birthday Party
As you know I just love it when I am able to share stories of the young people understanding the principle of being a starfish thrower. This time I am sending my special thanks to Ian, whose mom wrote this letter:Saturday, February 7th, Ian celebrated his 8th birthday with a day of fun, games, and friends. He asked for donations for Emily (because it will be the name of his sister from China when we get our referral instead of gifts, and we are happy to report his friends helped him raise $105 for Starfish. His friends were all so excited to be able to help! Thank-you for giving us the opportunity to share with you! His older brother is already thinking of what he wants to do.
For me, the best part was that my almost 13 year old boy told his brother, "Wow Ian, that is so cool! I love that you are helping an orphan. I want to do that too!" How many times does a 12 year old boy look at his 8 year old brother and say something that great?!? Ian did ask me if it would be okay if we adopt Breanna...if only it were so easy! Out of the mouth of babes. (Emily doesn't have long enough hair for him...he wants his sister to have more hair than she does).
Thanks again for letting us partner with you and use pictures to help share more information about what you are doing in China.
Cheryl
Life, Love and Laughter,
Amanda
Starfish Foster Home
Xian China
At Starfish, we have taken care of 67 children to date, arranged almost 50 surgeries and had a whopping 18 international adoptions, so our little starfishes live all over the globe: the US (latest adoptions to Kentucky and New Jersey), Netherlands, Norway and Spain. Two children are matched at the moment waiting for their families. We currently have 30 babies under the age of 3 1/2 at two foster homes. We just opened a new cleft palate house on February 5, 2009.
http://chinesestarfish.blogspot.com
NEW BLOG SITE FOR CLEFT HOME:
http://chinesestarfishcleft.blogspot.com
chinese.starfishthrower@gmail.com
Cell: 86.1348.812.4847
Thursday, February 05, 2009
There are times when something happens and it pushes you to a place you were not exactly planning to go. I had thought about starting a cleft house a few months ago and I had been writing trying to fund raise. Basically, I was trying to plan something. Often times life has a way of interfering when you are trying to plan and this is exactly what happened here. Last Sunday, I got a call from the director of the orphanage and she asked me if there was anyway that I could take on any more babies. They were being inundated with abandoned babies and had no more place to put them. We were doing really well at the foster home and were pretty comfortable, just cruising along. I thought it was time to expand and so I decided to start a cleft home much sooner than what I had planned.
Nine little cleft babies were delivered from the orphanage this morning. They are all so cute. The youngest Tina is 10 days and the oldest Antonia is 11 months old. We are now a franchise, we started a second apartment on the first floor of our building.
I am going to need some additional donations to keep these babies and if there is any way that you would like to make a tax free donation I would welcome it, no matter how small. I figured that if we got 80 people to donate US$25 a month each then we can take care of the children that we have. Should we get more commitments, I will increase the amount until we have 20 babies. I believe that the combined force of a group of people has an incredible effect for good and in this case I hope that there will be many people who would be moved by the plight of these babies. Maybe by looking at each one of them, it will make the orphans in China more real. As I write this they have eaten themselves until they are full and have fallen asleep. Today was a truly exceptional day for Starfish. I wish you could have shared in this day here with us. The feeling was just tremendous.
Starfish Children's Services has 501 (c) 3 status (20-4682916) and you can set up a recurring monthly donation or a one time donation at the following site:
www.thestarfishfosterhome.org and look under tab "YOU CAN HELP"
Please make sure you designate where the money is to go. The "original"Starfish, or the Cleft Home. Thanks so much for your support. I am sure there are many people who would agree that I am certifiably crazy. I would answer that I became crazy when nothing else seemed to work. You cannot accuse me of having a boring life. I am sure one day this is all going to turn into an interesting book. You can say that you lived with me through it.
Life, Love and Laughter,
Amanda, with 30 little mouths to feed.
Starfish Foster Home
Xian, China
At Starfish, we have taken care of 67 children to date, arranged almost 50 surgeries and had a whopping 18 international adoptions, so our little alumni live all over the globe: the US (latest adoptions to Kentucky and New Jersey), Netherlands, Norway and Spain. Two children are matched at the moment waiting for their families. We currently have 30 babies under the age of 3 1/2 at the foster home.
www.thestarfishfosterhome.org
http://chinesestarfish.blogspot.com
chinesestarfishthrower@gmail.com
Cell: 86.1348.812.4847
Nine little cleft babies were delivered from the orphanage this morning. They are all so cute. The youngest Tina is 10 days and the oldest Antonia is 11 months old. We are now a franchise, we started a second apartment on the first floor of our building.
I am going to need some additional donations to keep these babies and if there is any way that you would like to make a tax free donation I would welcome it, no matter how small. I figured that if we got 80 people to donate US$25 a month each then we can take care of the children that we have. Should we get more commitments, I will increase the amount until we have 20 babies. I believe that the combined force of a group of people has an incredible effect for good and in this case I hope that there will be many people who would be moved by the plight of these babies. Maybe by looking at each one of them, it will make the orphans in China more real. As I write this they have eaten themselves until they are full and have fallen asleep. Today was a truly exceptional day for Starfish. I wish you could have shared in this day here with us. The feeling was just tremendous.
Starfish Children's Services has 501 (c) 3 status (20-4682916) and you can set up a recurring monthly donation or a one time donation at the following site:
www.thestarfishfosterhome.org and look under tab "YOU CAN HELP"
Please make sure you designate where the money is to go. The "original"Starfish, or the Cleft Home. Thanks so much for your support. I am sure there are many people who would agree that I am certifiably crazy. I would answer that I became crazy when nothing else seemed to work. You cannot accuse me of having a boring life. I am sure one day this is all going to turn into an interesting book. You can say that you lived with me through it.
Life, Love and Laughter,
Amanda, with 30 little mouths to feed.
Starfish Foster Home
Xian, China
At Starfish, we have taken care of 67 children to date, arranged almost 50 surgeries and had a whopping 18 international adoptions, so our little alumni live all over the globe: the US (latest adoptions to Kentucky and New Jersey), Netherlands, Norway and Spain. Two children are matched at the moment waiting for their families. We currently have 30 babies under the age of 3 1/2 at the foster home.
www.thestarfishfosterhome.org
http://chinesestarfish.blogspot.com
chinesestarfishthrower@gmail.com
Cell: 86.1348.812.4847
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