This Says it All...

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart for making this video. This is beautiful. He is a beautiful little boy. They are all beautiful kids and this entirely needed to be shared and seen. Also, if you would rather it not be posted here I will remove it at your asking. :)

Ruslana's Red Thread?

Does it lead to you? From her file on her page at Reece's Rainbow:

Ruslana:

Girl, Born January 21, 2005

SIGNIFICANT RISK, PLEASE ADOPT ME SOON!!

Ruslana is a beautiful little girl. She has brown hair and deep brown eyes. She is already 4 and facing imminent institutionalization. The director will not be able to hold her at this point, so you would be adopting her from the institution :( Time is CRUCIAL for Ruslana, as the mortality rate after transfer is quite low.

Ruslana has particularly low tone, and has not had therapy, so she is still not walking. She is very close though, and gets around quite well! She is described as a very happy and affectionate little girl who loves to play with her dolls. We all know that with therapy and focus and a loving family, she will blossom and show the world just how amazing and resilient our children really are!

Ruslana does have an oval window, but she is not considered in need of surgery at this time. You would want to follow up with a cardiologist once you are home, though.

Please give Ruslana the opportunity to be all she can be!! She has very little time left.

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Please keep this child in your prayers, please pass word of her along, please sponsor her adoption by clicking the button for her at the right. If you are interested in adopting her please contact Andrea at Reece's Rainbow today!

Lil Miss HJ: China Adoption! All fees waived but travel!

So I was randomly surfing today and found this:

This little girl is 13 -almost 14- years old, she is ready now and needs a home before April 20 2009 or she will likely end up on the streets! Please pray for her, please follow the link below if you are dossier ready in china for an older girl!

Please put this link on your blogs. Maybe we can find her a home in time!

http://wehaveemptyarms.blogspot.com/2009/03/emergency-situation-in-china.html

Baby Stellan...

...tonight Little Stellan lies in icu and is in desperate need of prayers that God will heal his little heart. Sweet Stellan's heart-rate is not stabilizing - this is something that happened before he was born as well.

I am not trying to be cold at all and I hope with my heart it doesn't seem so. His mother's blog located through this button:



--can say it so much better than I can. If you pray, please pray with us for this little baby and his family tonight.

With all my heart,
Me.

I am honored...

...and it is true. I am going to try and build a website for the dolls created by Kimmie at Over the Moon with Joy. This is big for both of us, please keep us in your prayers as she tries to build these dolls and I try to make a site for them according to God's Will.

A bit about this project for those of you just hearing about it. Two dolls will be made, a boy and a girl, and they will be sent out into the world to teach people about the adoption, and that we are called to care for orphans and widows. The website is so people can log their stories as they receive and learn from the dolls in their travels, like a journal of sorts.

I highly encourage you to visit Kimmie's blog, as this project was envisioned through her and she can and does explain it much better. I am just honored and so happy to be part of it. Thank you Kimmie. Thank you, God.

-Me.

Can You See Me?

Can you see me? My name is Diana. I have just turned five years old. I have a shaved head and lie day after day in a crib in an orphanage overseas. They shave my head to keep lice away, so I don't have pretty curls like little girls get to. I don't have a mommy and daddy like little girls get to. I don't have a smile like a little girl should.

I don't even get to see the other kids. I can hear them, though, somewhere in the room. No one ever touches me except to feed me through my G-Tube. But I want someone to love me, too.

I am discribed as difficult. They say I have Severe Cerebal Palsy.

But I have alot to give. With a little love from you and encouragement to reach my potential, who knows what I could do? Maybe a hug, something besides these crib bars will make my blue eyes open wide and sparkle with light. Can you see me? My hair can grow. Maybe one day smile for you too? Can you see me reaching out to you? Don't see me for how I look in this picture. See me for everything I can be.

I have very very little time left to show everyone how much I can give. Please see me. Be my something to smile about. Please see me and bring me Hope. I am just a little girl too. All I really need - is love.

More information on Diana can be found on this page:

http://www.reecesrainbow.com/angelgirls.htm

Please view her details for contact info. Please send a prayer up for her today.

Mara...

...in checking on her she is no longer on the Reece's Rainbow Page. Nor is she listed as having a family. She just seems gone? Maybe she has a family? I am thinking she does?

Does anyone know what happened to her? If you are interested in adopting her please contact Andrea -the woman behind Reece's Rainbow- the same. Maybe her pictures have just been taken down for some reason. I wonder where she is. Also Esperanza is still there. Please pray for these two little girls.

I Need to Add This...

I've been feeling quite strongly that I need to add this, to share this. I found this page well over a year ago, when I first felt pulled to issues of adoption.
I lost the page. I spent about a year trying to find it again. And here it is, a page of stories of one family and their beautiful kids.

No words can describe what is at the other end of this link, except there, there is alot of love...

Please click Here to read about - a "Child to Love."

Alexsey's Family and Button:

Here is Alexsey's donation button for his wonderful family. When I found out who they were, my heart literally jumped. It is so right. He is so much a part of them. I have thought in the past that he belonged with them. He always was part of them. God is so good, everyone. I am led to think that some of you all might know them too:

Presenting: Alexsey's Family.

And here is Alexsey's Button, please put it on your blogs and pages. Thanx.


Grab This Button

What if She's An Angel:

Somewhere out there a family is looking for their little daughter. At the same time, this little angel, Mara, is hoping so much for them. It is my own sincere hope that they do meet each other. Look at this sweet little girl. It is my hope that someone can see how beautiful she is, how much she can give, how much she can love.

Will you be the family to do that for this little girl? The sad truth is, she is nine years old now and as children get older their chances of finding a family lessen and lessen.

Mara is in Ukraine. At age sixteen she will likely be turned out to the streets if she is not institutionalized simply because she is able to offer us a gift in many ways - by looking into her face, as an orphan and as a child with a condition, that of Apert's Syndrome, and accepting her and loving her for who she is as one of God's Children.

The title of this entry is 'What if She's An Angel," which is also a song. I will post a video made to that song at the bottom of this post in a moment. Its not a video by the original artist but I am posting it mostly for the song. If you are looking for a child, please give this little girl a chance.

Information about Mara can be found on this page:

Reece's Rainbow Adopt an Older Child

You will have to scroll down nearly to the bottom, but she is there. There is a second little girl with Apert's Syndrome as well on this page:

Other Angels Girls

Again you will have to scroll down a little, her name is Esperanza. But unlike Mara her picture is not there.

Take Care Everyone, and Thank You.

Freedom of Choice Act:

Abortion.

My stance?

Yes - it is the woman's body, but it is not her life.

I have a friend, a very dear friend, whom has miscarried five babies. Each one to her a life, a baby boy, a baby girl, another baby girl... and the last to they didn't know. But each child has a name. Each one a life. Each one a baby book and a sonogram photo if they were able to get one.

So, the Freedom of Choice Act - also known as FOCA, gives women privacy and this right to chose. It allows a 13 year old girl to get an abortion without her parents knowing.

Okay, so - the school nurse has to call to get permission to give your 13 year old an aspirin? But we don't need permission to get an abortion?

Whom exactly is this catering to in this case? A Child, a 13 year old child who is scared to death of her parents finding out. That's who. And that is why.

Is something wrong with this picture? Aspirin must be so much more scary and dangerous than a abortion, I guess.

With FOCA Partial Birth Abortions would also be legal. If you don't know what this is I strongly suggest that you click here. But be warned, it isn't nice.

Taxpayers -even those who do not believe in abortion - will have to pay for them. Religous hospials would be forced to perform them or close their doors.

Along with this, there are other things FOCA will cause, so please look into it. There is a button to it in the right side of my scroll bar, you will have to scroll down and down. And President Obama already reversed Bushes ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform abortions. Does he want to pass this act too?

Please help fight this. Yes, women have a choice, but I feel this is secretive and not safe and while there are those who are pro-choice, this does, in my opinion infringe on the rights of pro-life citizens, when pro-choice can already make their choice without this. That is my opinion. You are welcome to express yours even if you do not agree with me. But please don't be nasty. I've tried not to be.

Fight FOCA. Oh yes, and I wanted to add this button to the blog I read this on:

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.

Baby Boy in the Nashville Area...

Hey all. I just got finished reading an entry on someone else's blog about a 2 and a half month old baby boy needing his forever home. From the blog:

"There is a baby boy in Nashville who is 2 1/2 months old. He has Down Syndrome and he needs a family. He is currently with his birth mother but is being put up for adoption and needs to be placed as soon as possible.

He is a very healthy baby and they said he has very good tone. He is bi-racial and his birth mother wants to do a semi-open adoption. They were looking for a family in the Nashville area but found none, and so now they are open to a family from anywhere."

If you are looking for or know someone looking for a domestic adoption of a baby, please follow this link and consider this little guy. :D

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.