Take a Good Look

This is Evie.  Please, take a good long look at this cute smiling face of a little girl named Evie.  If she is not adopted very soon she will be going to the institution where we already know what happens.  For those of you who still don't know.  Little Evie's hair will be shaved.  She will get ghastly thin.  She will have bruises on her pretty face and a horribly sad or indifferent look will take place of that precious smile.  She will become a child who is absolutely unrecognizable to this picture.  Not to mention she will probably forget anything she's ever learned and not learn anything ever again in her probably shortened life.  Isn't there a mama and daddy out there who could help Evie have a bright and smiley future where she will prosper and be all that she can be?

Tides

Things have shifted a little, the tide just may have turned, not sure how but I just feel they have in my favor and in favor of a seven year old orphaned girl.  Not much more I can say right now.  There is hardly even words to describe what I feel but I have to be patient which as I said is next to impossible.  I will have to find the calm inside me because I know the road ahead could sure be a long one.

Where am I at

... with RHS ???  Well, not much further than I was before.  Everyday I have new  hope only to be dashed once again.  When I read other people's blogs with the information of where they are at with their adoption I keep thinking; why can't that be me?  I want to help out.  I want to pluck one child and give it a chance at life that it deserves.  Among other suggestions regardin RHS (reluctant husband syndrome) I read about patience and don't nag.  Are you kidding?  Do you know how hard it is to be patient and not to nag?  All I want to do is nag, nag, nag even though in the back of my mind I know that most likely that's only pushing him further away.  Then I read Summer's blog on Lucky to Love Lyla.  I can just feel her excitement and happiness running through me.  She will give another child a family.  Reading it makes me both happy and miserable at the same time.  I want to be in her place but I can't.  I am where I am.  I just don't know what to do about it.  Do I accept and let it go or do I keep holding on, hoping and praying that he will change his mind??  What am I suppose to do when I can't forget these little faces, I can't turn away, I can't pretend anymore that they don't exist??

FMN Friday

ZANE

Just listed. What a sad little face. Someone grab him quick and bring him into your family. He could so use a mom and dad who would believe in him and tell him he can succeed at everything he tries out. He's a beautiful child and seems like he just needs a little push and a little love to make him blossom.

Lilianna Found, Again

I truly hope there is better luck and a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for Lilianna with her new family committed to adopt her. The will is definitely there to help this child and I'm so glad for that.

Lilianna Waiting Again

It's not fair. It's just not fair that this beautiful little girl who needs a family not only to love her but to give her the medical help she so desperately needs is waiting again. I don't know what happened with the family who was trying to adopt her but I'm sure they tried very hard to get to her and it just didn't work out. Is this how life was meant to be for this little light, to spend the rest of her days in a crib, in the lying down room of an orphange?

Surely, not; it just doesn't make sense that this child is not to get a chance at a decent life, with a place and a family where she could learn to walk and talk, perhpas even go to school or simply just to be held, cuddled and loved. Lilianna deserves a chance to know there is more to life than just her crib and the walls of the lying down room. There is more out there Lilianna. There is a family waiting for you, I know there is.

So Touching

Just found this link of photos by a photojournalist which are so sad and so touching I had to post it here. I know this is not exclusive to only one country but it still makes you think how good we have it so let's quit complaining about those little things that really don't matter.


ORPHANS

Just Checking

As I check on some children in particular every day I noticed a few days ago that T's name was not on the My Family Found me page, then it was and now her profile is not there at all. I've heard she will be adopted within Russia but can't really know for sure. I know one thing when she left the hospital on Feb. 24th I can now say she left in my dress. T is seven years old but she's much smaller than her age as most orphanage children are. She's tiny in fact. I sent her two dresses size 7 but that of course was way to big, then sent her size 5 and still a bit big but doable and she loved it, wore it home, the only home she's ever known, the orphange back to her groupa. I would like to think that she was mine for two months. I worried about her, received updates, photos and video of her. Now, she is gone to me and I don't know if I'll ever have contact with her again. She may be out of my reach but not out of my heart. I do hope she will have a sweet life with her new family, whoever they may be.

So Happy for Francine

This lovely, lovely girl is going home. Tomorrow is the day when she will leave the orphanage and make the journey home to her family, mom, dad, brothers and a sister; something all orphaned children dream of but only some will get to do. I can't even imagine how hard it must be to take only one child with you when you want to take them all.

How do those children feel when one of their own has been chosen but not them?

They want to be happy for their friend but wish they were going home instead. My heart breaks for those left behind and there are so many, sooo many little faces with bright eyes and hopeful hearts that the next Mama showing up has come for them.