YARD SALE UPDATE !

YARD SALE WAS TODAY !
It was a huge success ! It was alot of fun, work and sweat. Special thanks to my wonderful family for all the help: Mom, Bekka, Dan, Trish, Shelbie, Jeff and of course Raeghan and Riley !

Me and Raeghan trying to stay in the shade ! My hair was solid sweat ! Raeghan was still so happy to be helping Mommy out !

Picture of the yard sale from the garage out. Dan is on right in black shirt helping some customers ! And I thought we haggled in China ! Some of them dedicated yardsalers are killers ! First customer was there at 0630am !

My excellent helpers, Shelbie and Rebekka !

Riley found him a toy to keep himself busy for a while !

Just part of what the garage looked like the night before. We tried to seperate it all ! You know when you take the good junk from friends, you get the bad junk too !

Many, many thanks to all my friends for donating all the items for the yard sale to HELP BRING RACHAEL HOME !

Charlotte

RACHAEL IS 2 1/2 TODAY !

Dear Folks,

My sweet little Rachael is exactly 2 1/2 today ! She is in China still in foster care through an orphanage ! I miss her so and can't wait for her to join our family ! Hoping she is being loved and cared for as much as we will love and care for her !

Raeghan and Riley talk all the time about her and how they can't wait to hold her hand !

Tomorrow is the yard sale ! Please pray for success and NO RAIN ! Please continue to pray for the funds to be there when needed and for my health to continue working all the hours as I am, and for my blessed mother and older daughter who are both helping me with the kids when I am gone at work on the weekends !

PLEASE CONSIDER A DONATION OR ONE OF MY FUNDRAISERS !

Charlotte
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YARD SALE THIS SATURDAY !

YARD SALE THIS SATURDAY AT OUR HOUSE !!!!

STARTS AT 0700AM SHARP !

COME ONE, COME ALL !

ALL PROCEEDS GO TO HELP BRING RACHAEL HOME !!

Email me for directions ! We live in Sherwood, Arkansas.


Charlotte

Bologna anyone ?????

Raeghan and I went grocery shopping yesterday evening, she picked out some bologna and when she got home her and Riley had a bologna party !

YUM YUM ! says Riley and Raeghan !!

Rachael update:

The agency told me last week I will get a verbal PA, basically they will tell us the date when my dossier was pulled from the nsn track to the sn track for Rachael ! They think we will know soon ! Then it will be another several months to wait ! Please pray all the funds are there for when we need them ! Thank you God for all you have provided thus far !

Charlotte

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POPCORN ! POPCORN ! POPCORN !

The popcorn has arrived !!!! Wanted to share the good news, with this fundraiser we sold over $1100 in orders and made a profit of about $1000 all for Rachael's adoption ! Thanks so much to everyone who ordered and to my wonderful helper bees: Mom, Bekka, Dan, Trish and Shelbie who helped me sell it ! As you can see Raeghan and Riley were very excited to come home to 8 huge boxes delivered by Fed-ex today !

Popcorn Palace is a wonderful place ! We ordered it Monday, they filled the order and sent it Tuesday and it came today ! Riley can't wait to eat it, he wants his own bag to hold !

Raeghan and Riley making funny faces ! Hurry Mom, we want popcorn !

Thanks so much for helping make this my biggest fundraiser yet ! I am continuing to do others, we are about 1/3 of they way there !

My friend is going to China Saturday, she told me she will be at the orphanage on July 2nd, 3rd and 4th. Pray she gets to see my Rachael and get me some pictures of her and gets to give her her care package !!!!

Charlotte

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Baby Pandas ~ Too cute !

Happy Father's Day !

Happy Father's Day to all the wonderful men in our lives !
This is my brother Tom, a wonderful dad here with our wonderful dad ! My father went to heaven on January 28th, 2006. He never got to meet Riley, but I know he watches over us all every day ! He is with the highest of all fathers, God.

This is Raeghan and Riley's godfather, Brian. They love him so much ! Sometimes Raeghan calls him daddy. Hoping he will be Rachael's godfather too !

Last but not least ~ Dan, Rebekka's fiancee. Couldn't find a picture of Dan alone ! They all have Bekka in it ! Dan has been around for almost 3 years and he is wonderful to the kids ! I know someday like 10 years from now he will make a great father ! LOL. I can't wait to have red headed grandchildren !

Charlotte

HELP BRING RACHAEL HOME !

Check out this song !

Click on this link : www.adoptionsong.com to hear a very special wonderful song created by a dad, Thommie Hicks who is WAITING for his adopted child ! It is so beautiful and for a small donation you can download the entire song, read the lyrics to see how true it is for all adopting families !

Charlotte
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POPCORN FUNDRAISER !

POPCORN FUNDRAISER ONGOING !

If you live locally ( Arkansas ) and want to place an order, please email me @ raeghansmom@yahoo.com

Here is the sizes to order :

$5 a bag, $10 a jar for cheddar cheese, white cheddar, caramel, chicago style ( caramel w/cheddar), or rainbow

$7 a bag, $14 a jar for cookies and cream, caramel nut, and macadamia butter crunch

$25 for a 5- flavor gift sampler with bags of cheddar, white cheddar, caramel, caramel nut and cookies and cream

$35 for a tin of 6 flavors: kettle corn, fiesta mix, cheddar cheese, caramel nut, cookies and cream and pretzel twists.

50% of profits going to HELP BRING RACHAEL HOME !

please email me this weekend with orders !

Charlotte

One year ago today Riley came home !

One year ago today Riley came home ! This is the first time Raeghan got to meet Riley, and she quickly let him know I was her momma and he needed to get out of my arms too !
This was at the airport very late at night !

Happily here is Raeghan and Riley one year ago this month and on most days they are happy to have one another. They can't wait for their Baby Rachael to come home !

Riley ~ not a day goes by that I don't thank the Lord that he gave me the gift of being your mother ! Thank you God !

Charlotte

My daughter Rachael

Tonight we went to our neighbors house for a picnic/swim party. We had so much fun. They invited everyone in the neighborhood, so various neighbors had come and gone all day long. It was me, Rebekka, Dan, Raeghan, Riley and my mother that all went. We had some good food and fellowship. The kids wanted to swim, but none of had suits with us. So we all played with water guns ! The adults and kids, we had so much fun !

One family there had a little girl, she was 3, and she had strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes, and her skin was fair. I found myself watching her often, thinking and wondering about my sweet Rachael. Thinking this is what she is going to look like, she was so sweet, and so gentle. Tonight it made me miss her so much and wish for her to be home now.

As every day goes on I have to come to truly know SHE IS MY DAUGHTER and she is waiting for us to come get her ! When Riley was waiting I was so fortunate to get so many friends to get me pictures of him. With Rachael I just don't think I will get any, maybe if when my friend goes the end of the month, she is my only hope. I had so many friends get only one as I got so many of Riley, never knowing what they went through.

Rachael, mommy misses you tonight, wo ai ni Jiang Yu Zhu !


Charlotte

Dear Santa.................

Dear Santa,

I've been very good this year ! All I want for Christmas besides Rachael home is this little 2007 model of a silver bullet !

Charlotte

The Most Important Person on Earth

Here is a picture of my three wonderful children: Raeghan in front, then Riley, and Rebekka in the back of the "caboose" the little ones made with the chairs in the kitchen !

Here is a prayer card I found at home with the picture of mother holding her child, I liked what it said :

The most important person on earth is a mother. She can not claim the honor of having built the Notre Dame Cathedral. She need not. She has built something more magnificant than any cathedral- a dwelling for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby's body.

The angels have been blessed with such a grace. They cannot share in God's Creative miracle to bring new saints to Heaven. Only a human mother can. Mothers are closer to God the Creator than any other creature. God joins forces with mothers in performing this act of creation: What on God's good earth is more glorious than this: to be a mother ?

I am so greatful to God to have been allowed to be a mother to my three wonderful children, and can't wait to bring my next daughter, Rachael home to be her mother !

Charlotte

Riley is social worker FREE !

RILEY IS SOCIAL WORKER FREE !!

Today we received in the mail the final 12 month post placement report for Riley's adoption ! Boy, it feels good ! We have met all the requirements to make China happy that Riley is well cared and loved for ! Amen !

Now when Rachael comes home it will start all over again. She will need a 6 month and a 12 month post placement report too !

I often feel I am in the wrong field, how much fun it must be to be a social worker and see family's come together FOREVER !

Thank you China for letting Raeghan and Riley become my children !!!

Charlotte
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EBAY IS BACK !

Ebay auctions are back ! And Raeghan promises to not be in the hospital again the bidding closes ! "Everyone loves a brown eyed girl " Look to the right under fundraisers for the Ebay one, and when you click on the item, click to the right to see seller's other items, will be adding more tonight and the next few days !

Thanks so much for helping to Bring Rachael Home !

Charlotte

Anna Grace is coming home !

This is my wonderful friend Ohilda's beautiful daughter, Anna Grace Fengqin, her family just got TA and hopefully her gotcha day is going to be on Father's Day !!!
You can read more about them under my favorite's or go to http://www.annagracecomeshome.blogspot.com/

Ohilda knows so much what it is like to love someone so much as I do !!!

Thanks girl, for adding my Rachael to your blog !

Charlotte
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FAT- LOSS PATCH THAT WORKS !

New fundraiser added for this incredible FAT-LOSS PATCH THAT WORKS !

Click on the link : www.nexagen.com/cwg to learn more about it !

My good friend/ coworker and nurse Cynthia G. is going to give to me 10% of all sales from her online site !

I have seen this patch work on friend's at work !

It is a 30 day supply for $69.95, and the opportunity to sell is there too !

They also have other items for sale too ! Please take a look, and email Cynthia G. with any questions @ cdg106@yahoo.com

Charlotte
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Rachael's care package !

Here is a picture of the contents of the care package I am sending to a friend and she is taking it to the orphanage where Rachael is at the end of the month. Since Rachael is in foster care, we are hoping the friend gets to see Rachael when she comes in with her foster family. The friend will be in the province city for 3 days doing work with the orphanage. *****************************************************
The contents of the package are: a disposable camera ( hoping they take pictures of her with her foster family ! ), a photo album book with lots of pictures of her new family, all the pictures are labeled with chinese words, 2 pretty sundresses, one is white with trim and the other is pink floral and last but not least, Mr. Teddy bear ! He is wearing a white hooded sweatshirt with a photo of Rachael's new family on the front of, I got it done at www.snapfish.com. Hoping she likes all her gifts. This might be my only chance to get some pictures of Rachael. Even though her orphanage is visited by most families, she is in foster care and doesn't come to the orphanage often. ********************************************************************
Her province is Chongqing. It's really not a province, I was told it is a municipality like Beijing. I will add a link to it under favorites for ya'll to see.

Charlotte
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RILEY'S 1ST GOTCHA DAY ! ( 5-31-07 )

It is so hard to believe it has been one year since I got my beautiful son ! I remember the first time I saw his picture in August of 2005, he had just turned 2 and he was sitting there on a list waiting for to find him thanks to my good friend, Sandy !