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Dear Friends and family,


2015: We are very excited to share with you that we are going back to China! We feel led to adopt 2 more children. They have the same diagnosis as Jade. By the time our little girl comes home she will be 5 and our little boy will be seven. As it was the first time, we need to raise quite a bit of funds to pull this off. We are so grateful for all of our friends, family and complete strangers with such big hearts' help in rescuing Jade. She was worth every ounce of effort and we know that these 2 will also be such a blessing to everyone.

Please keep us in your prayers.
Thank you in advance for all that you do!






2013: We are very excited to share with you that we are adopting a little girl from China. She has Down Syndrome just like our little boy, Gabriel. The first question that comes to mind for most people is, “what are you thinking?” Those of you that have spent time with us know that Gabriel is quite a handful.

When Gabriel was born, five years ago, I wept and asked “Why me?” My dreams were crushed in an instant. The grief ran deep. What I’ve now learned is that I asked the wrong question. I should have asked, “What have I done to deserve a gift as great as this?” It is truly a privilege to rear a soul so beautiful.

We have a number of friends who have adopted a child with Down Syndrome after having one of their own. We’ve all found that their capacity to love, forgive and to just have fun is so much greater than we could ever have imagined.

The second question that comes is, “why not adopt domestically?” That’s also a good question.
The waiting list to adopt a child with Down Syndrome in the US is many years long. Nine out of 10 babies proclaimed DS are terminated before birth. The doctors and geneticists scare people so well that they give up their beloved child, having never met them. The doctors say that the child will “ruin your life”, “ruin your other children’s lives”, and on and on they go. Winning the lottery can “ruin your life”. Anything can, it’s how we respond that makes all the difference. A child with DS comes only to love and be loved. And it’s a depth of love you’ll never experience any where else.

I share all this with you to inspire you to save those babies, when someone comes to you completely distraught and bewildered about whether or not to kill the baby they loved so much. Please tell them that there are hundreds of families waiting for such a gift!

I also share this because we need help. Since we need another child with DS, Gabriel deserves a friend as beautiful and loving as he, an orphan deserves a loving family and we can’t adopt domestically, we have to look internationally. Which is very expensive. We were not prepared financially to pull off such a feat at this time but Gabriel is getting older and we’ve found our daughter and have fallen in love with her.

We need to raise about $33,000 to finish the process and go get her. We also want to raise a little extra because (remember the other children whose lives would be destroyed by having a sibling with DS?) our girls are beside themselves with joy over the thought of having a little sister as awesome as their little brother. They really want to go to China with us. I really want them to go too. Imagine the experience of a lifetime! They’ll never forget it. I even wonder if 10 years from now we’ll be going back to an orphanage with them to pick up their little orphan babies with Down Syndrome. I wouldn’t be surprised.

This is probably too long but there is so much to share that is so important. Lives are on the line. 

By the way, children with special needs, especially developmentally delayed children, are not often adopted. They spend their little lives institutionalized and if they live to 12, 14, 16, depending on the country, they are put out on the streets. They have no means of supporting themselves. They are abused and die of starvation. We can’t save all the starfish but we can save this one.

Ways to help:
We have a facebook fan page www.facebook.com/jadesjourneyhome
Please like our page and follow our journey. Please share it with friends and family. We will be posting other ways to support us like an amazon link, a t-shirt “Love Knows No Borders”, etc.

If anyone is feeling led to help us with a donation, we have a page with a tax deductible link http://reecesrainbow.org/7013 /sponsorsolano

We could use airline miles for our international flights. We will need 4 round trip tickets and 1 one way. We wouldn’t need to raise so much, if we were able to use miles.

We will be holding a large dinner with a silent auction in our area. We could use auction items.
Maybe you know someone that has a time share week they won’t use this year and they need a tax write off. ???

I’m open to ideas. :)

Thank you so much for taking the time to read our story and share in our journey. We can’t wait for you to meet Jade Abigail and Gabriel, if you haven’t met him already. They will be a blessing to so many. The dreams that were crushed in those first few moments, five years ago, have been replaced with even greater dreams of even bigger victories!

Thank you for making a difference for “this starfish”!

Blessings,
Constance, Gerardo, Monsi, Tati, Gabriel and soon Jade

p.s. our baby girl's stage name is Darla. But her real name, when she comes home, will be Jade Abigail.

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