One Year Ago Today:

I started this blog, inspired by a sweet little girl whom has since been found by her family and come home! Other children featured on this blog over the course of the year have also been found by their families are are going or have gone home, Aurell, Becky, Alexsey, Alan and Ruslana all have families along with Hope. Some others still wait, Diana - please consider adopting her if you are looking for a little girl and are able to or willing to learn how to provide the care and love she needs to blossom, smile and grow. Also Little Esperanza is still waiting as well.

Two of the kids featured here I am not sure where they went or what happened to them, please think of Mara and little Valessa today and pray for them if you pray.

Along with this I encourage you to visit Over the Moon with Joy and Bring the Rain if you wish to.

So here it is, the one year mark for this blog. This has been a wonderful year, looking back. Thank you all for sharing it with me. Who knows what the next year may bring. Thanks everyone for visiting.

Great News Everyone:

Sweet little Alexsey's family has found him. I saw the notice about it just today on www.reecesrainbow.com. So much as we pray more and more of these little ones home. I am certian dozens and dozens of prayers were going up for this little boy. Thank you, God. Thank you.

Two more little girls need your prayers now, I will be calling them Angel and Olivia. They are both around four years old and again, special needs and facing the institution. Or maybe you are their family? As it is I cannot do pictures of them yet as someone thought it appropriate to hack my computer. But they are forth-coming. Thank you for Alexsey, Becky and sweet little Miss Mary! Talk to you soon.

Becky Has a Home..

Thank you, thank you, God for bringing this little girl's family to find her in time! Though I never met her she just shines through so much. This family is blessed, no, I don't know whom or where they are. But you do. Thank you God.

Update 02.04.09:
Hi all. She might seem familiar to some of you. On Reece's Rainbow Becky was other angel - little Vicki, whom is now Katrina. And now - presenting Katrina's New Family.

Happy 2009 and DeLurker Week

At this moment, a pause to wish you all a good New Year. I haven't forgotten to update the blog about Little Mary, formerly known as Hope on this blog, who is home at last with her beautiful family.

There is just so much to say about it. So much, and I have to change the side bar as well.

Along those lines, it is Delurker Week - any takers. I know there is not alot of you that come here, but there are a few. And honestly I am glad to have you just the way you are but please feel free to leave a comment and say hello if you wish to.

A recap for 2009 and my purpose for this blog.

Orphaned kids need homes. Foster kids need homes. Homes need kids. Everyone needs love. This blog was inspired by and started for a little girl whom once lived in a Ukrainian Orphanage but who is now at home and loved - Mary. Clicking on the label 'thekids' will bring you to the few faces here, and to a website that leads to a few hundred faces more. Please, please, consider one of these kids if you are adopting and haven't yet found your angel. Please consider Aleksey or Becky, or any kid like them. They have so little time and much to give. If not please pray for them that thier families will find them very soon.

Also, prayers for Kimmie of 'Over the Moon with Joy' and her family as she goes to pick up their precious baby, "Little Beauty" this week.

Thanks all, for the visits and the continued visits. Take care and once again, happy '09.

Becky and Alexsey...

Still looking for these little kids parents. Little Alexsey is running very short on time and Miss Becky is not far behind him. Please, if you are adopting or know someone who is, think about these kids. I feel urged to present them again one more time in 2008. They are both just under five I think and are little sweethearts that deserve so much more than a mental institution.

For more info on them please click on thier labels, 'Becky' and 'Alexsey', even the label 'thekids' will bring you to them. Thanks.

Becky again...

Hi all. This is Becky. Are you her mommy and daddy? Is this your sweet little girl? She is running quickly out of time, please pray for her and post about her on your blog if you have one. Please contact me for the page details of where she can be found at. She only has until March 2009 before she is transferred to an institution...

Somewhere out there a family is looking for her right now. Lets help them in any way we can. Please follow the tag/label 'Becky' or 'thekids' for a bit more about her or contact me as to where she can be found. The digital image of 'Becky' is similar but not exact. Thanks.

I Do.

Hi All,

This is me, stepping out from behind the curtain for a moment. I am Debrah, single, early 30's - living in Arizona. For days, I've been trying to answer a question here I have been asked a few times. And that is not a bad thing at all, I am glad people have asked it.

And that question is if I plan on adopting a child myself.

I do. Funny isn't it, as that is what people say with their wedding vows. Those two binding words bring families together. My 'I do' in this case is followed by - I will. I will adopt however many and whomever God wants me to adopt. But at the moment things on this Earth are not ready for me to start that family. I am not by far living on the street but at the moment I am struggling to make ends meet for just myself.

I am already in the adoption process however with finding a place to raise kids, and I have found that place. I am sitting in what will one day be their bedroom even as I write this note. Next I have to find a way to not eat Ramen noodles and Spaghetti O's for dinner every night.

For me, the process began there - moving into a home with room for children. And I did it, that was my first step. That was a step I've worked on for the past year. I have kept quiet about it yes, it did not quite yet feel time to mention it openly or too many people yet. But the question has been asked and now at last, I can breath out, and say - yes, 'I do' want to adopt, and am already working my way forward with that goal in mind. My next is the ability to support them. I think I will have that accomplished by the end of spring or next summer - and then you might find the faces of my own red thread children on here.

I am feeling led to the US Foster System this first time, probably a six to eight year old is the feeling I am getting at this moment, minority group or with siblings. Its not really up to me as to who and when, you see. And though I don't know who or where they are God does know who and where they are. That said, I pray for my kids each day.

Thanks for asking this question. I do plan to, and I will, and am having to start at a few steps further back than some people do but, this is where my heart lies and I am working to make it happen.

In the meantime I try and advocate for kids like Valessa and Becky - Becky who is being sent into an institution this coming march. These places are horrible, they tie kids to beds, they leave them in cribs until their bones are so stiff they cannot even move and a rigor mortis like state sets in - for the rest of their lives. Once in they are in most cases no longer adoptable. And these are just a very very small handful of examples.

I am not making this up. I wish I was. You can find credible information on it all over the internet.

I don't want to leave this on that grim note. So, please join me when you read this in a prayer for all these children. About 7% of the Christian population alone can lead to no more orphans in the entire world. That's it. I read the site Over the Moon With Joy and encourage you to visit there. I have decided to join her prayers that adoption might be brought into people's hearts, that all these kids might come home.

And that is not to say only Christan's should adopt. Love is something that belongs to everyone everywhere. Its just to display a 'statistical measurement' of how few people it would really take. :)

Reece's Rainbow too, is a good place to start if you are looking for these kids. In the past two years alone they have found homes for over 120 kids with special needs and Down Syndrome.

Peace be with you this day.

Take care.

-Debrah.

[Stepping back behind the curtain now]

Little Miss Becky:

Becky will be four in a few months, and will be sent away to an institution at that time. She is quiet and shy, with what is said to be significant developmental delays, some of which may come from being in a group home? She is said to be happy and high functioning, does react well to her care givers however and the other kids in her group.

Becky is in an over-seas Orphanage. Married people only may apply. Pictures are available on another site. Name has been changed for privacy. Please, consider this sweet little blue-eyed girl today.