New MBHOH Video

Watch this new video about Maria's Big House!
It's hard to believe that just one month ago I was sitting, holding, and playing with many of the babies in this video. I still have little reminders every day of my special time in China - from taking off my toenail polish that I had done while in China to eating chinese food for lunch today and showing the chinese woman at the restaraunt that I still have Chinese money in my wallet - all sweet little reminders of that part of the world.

Maria's Big House of Hope from Show Hope on Vimeo.

The end of summer

Summer is ALMOST over. But (or butt!) I wanted to share a couple of summer pictures!

(taken by my friend Joni a couple of weeks ago)

Isaiah re-acting to Daniel doing cannon balls off the diving board.

Pool time!

Daniel has "given" one of his fishing poles to Isaiah for his very own and he loves to walk around with it saying "pole, pole" - as you can imagine this warms Daniels heart!

Kara's Trip to China

Finally! I got most of my pics up and into some kind of order.
Would love to sit across the table with a cup of tea and tell you the stories behind every picture - I hope you enjoy this edited version!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

China - Part one

Ok, so there is so much to share about my incredible trip to China over the last two weeks, so I'm going to break up my "China blog" into sections. Starting with flying to Beijing. My group left July 15th and we flew through Newark and then another 13+ hours to Beijing. We arrived mid afternoon and went straight to Hope Healing Home http://www.hopefosterhome.com/about_us.htm

If you have a second, go to their website and read about the awesome work these teo ordinary people are doing in China.

This is the "Yurt" we stayed in while at Hope Healing Home.
As you can see, it was actually quite a neat place to stay. Even without air conditioning it was quite comfortable for 9 of us to sleep in.

The orphans that are at Hope Healing Home are children who have correctable deformities. This is where I found out it only costs $650 to correct a cleft palate.

More to come about my trip.......