November is AAM

Adoption Awareness Month. I didn't know that before, now I do and I'm trying to do my part to bring attention to it. I know it's a very small part in the grand scale of things but just the same if we all do a little something our effort will grow huge. With that I have huge news, my hubby who has RHS, anyone heard of that?? It stands for reluctant husband syndrome. If you go over to No Greater Joy Dad you can read all about it. The said hubby has told me many times over that he cannot and will not adopt at this stage of our lives. Remember we're fifty and fifty two, grown kids etc and now I've been blindsided by a desperate need to rescue a child from an orphanage. Well hubby finally told me that he would look into it. I know, he's trying to be patient with me and he's only humoring me but still there is that little part of me that sees a tiny speck of hope that perhaps he'll change his mind.

I was also lucky enough to get some more information and a new picture of Francine. She's a gentle little girl who gets around without a wheelchair. She gets along with her peers at the orphange and they enjoy playing with her. Her caregivers also say she is a very smart child but she is nearing six and her time before the institution is running out. I love this picture of her looking out onto the world, smiling, making the best of her situation. She's charming and cherubic but whose child is she? Is she yours or is she mine? I hope that God will answer that question for us very soon.

Thanks to Marianne for taking the time to answer my emails and letting me share this picture of Francine she took when leaving the orphange with her own precious daughter.