An adoptive family! After enduring infertility, two failed domestic adoptions in the United States and because of them, taking a huge financial loss, we realized our dream of having a child when we adopted our beautiful daughter, Caia Jade Mei, from China in November 2005. We now realize why our previous attempts at adopting failed. We were not meant to parent a child from the US, but rather from the other side of the world where an abandoned child was waiting to call us "Mommy and Daddy."

After launching "Red Thread Girls" on Mother's Day, 2005.....a website where families could journal Chinese adoptions, we decided to merge it with its parent site, "Wish Upon a Stork", established in the adoption community since 2004 assisting childless couples realize their dream of adopting a child with the help of licensed agencies and wonderful attorneys here in the United States.

"Red Thread Girls" was originally started in an effort to raise money to fund our own adoption. Now that our precious little girl is finally home with us, we have decided to help those children who are less fortunate than the ones being adopted and raised into loving, nurturing families and those who have life-threatening medical conditions or who live in sheer poverty. We have decided to donate 20% from each sale of our China journals to "Love Without Boundaries" and 10% from each sale of our USA journals to both the "Make-A-Wish Foundation®" and "Save the Children" (specifically their USA program).

As the two sites come together, our focus has shifted toward journaling and announcements for not only adoptive families, but also birth mothers with an adoption plan and pregnant mothers who just want to journal their experience as a keepsake for their unborn children and for friends and family to follow along as a baby grows and an adoption unfolds.

We understand that infertility has affected many adoptive families and is a very sensitive issue, so we have decided to keep the two categories (Adoption and Pregnancy) separated. We hope to cater to families adopting not only from China (as our original journal site, "Red Thread Girls" did), but all over the world and here in the United States, too. There is an ancient Chinese belief that says: