The word around town... aka a mommy for beatrice????

So the blog has been silent... as we rejoice tentatively.

On the Reeces Rainbow website it says a family has committed to Beatrice!  Now we're just waiting to hear who it is... (honestly we've been waiting since Saturday...come on already!)

So who ever you are... shout it out... when you're allowed to that is...

Tentatively rejoicing for Beatrice.   ( and boy is my husband relieved that I won't be trying to convince him to adopt AGAIN! )

Waiting to hear your news... who ever you are....

Thank you God for placing orphans in families...

Good job Team Beatrice...

You have met the 100 dollar apostille challenge!  Thank you Thank you!

This next goal is a bit of a jump... but we can keep on chugging along.... here is your mission if you choose to accept it!   (insert mission impossible music here)  

If we can bring Beatrice to 8500$ she will essentially have a third of her adoption funded...

and we all know...the higher her grant creeps, the braver a potential family can be to say "yes" to bringing her home...

So Please...

pray for her
share this blog     
like her facebook page: Beatrice: Faith of a child
visit her fsp at : http://reecesrainbow.org/?s=Beatrice to donate.


I can't stop thinking that she is only 3 months younger than my baby girl, and has no parents to call her own....

I can't stop being reminded of her by my Shea who came from the same orphanage and group.  Tonight he said... "mom you're never ever going to leave me right?"   sigh...ouch.... my heart is sad that a child has to ask that because of how their life started out. 

She will have many challenges in front of her, but imagine how rich her life could be when cheered on, challenged and loved my a mom and dad...

Father's day is fast approaching.... let's see how close we can come to our new goal by then.

Go Team B....

Beatrice, we have faith that you have a mamma and daddy out there somewhere...

Right now only God knows exactly who they are...

But they will likely be thinking thoughts something like this... either right now... or someday in the future...

( click on the song "thousand years" near the bottom of the right margin to hear the song... )








 I have died everyday waiting for you

Darling don't be afraid I have loved you

For a thousand years

I'll love you for a thousand more

Time stands still

Beauty in all she is

I will be brave

I will not let anything take away

What's standing in front of me

Every breath

Every hour has come to this

One step closer


I had a fun evening with the song contest last night... and have narrowed it down to these 4 songs on the right margin... check them out.... all of them have some special meaning for this sweet girl who needs a family...I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.  I hope they give you hope, courage, inspiration and bring a few tears to your eyes.

I would also like to give an honorable mention to my husband who was the only male contributor of song choices to the contest last night!  Go Dan. :)

we are quite close to the last 100 dollar challenge... and we are 3 cents away from rounding off another hundred in her total... lets give her a bump !     http://reecesrainbow.org/?s=beatrice

God promises to wipe away every tear...

The One seated on the throne will shelter them...

They will no longer hunger

They will no longer thirst

The sun will no longer strike them

For the Lamb who is at the center of the throne will shelter them

He will guide them to springs of living waters

And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

Revelation 6: 15b-17



Beatrice... did you hear that?  Little girl, we have faith like a child that you will no longer hunger or thirst, that you will be sheltered and protected, and that your tears will be wiped clean.

We have faith, I hope you can feel it too...

Friends... please sacrifice again or for the first time...

If we raise 100 more dollars, we could pay for approximately 15 of the many apostille stamps that will someday need to be put on Beatrice's adoption dossier.  Again these are state side US instituted fees... not international fees.  International adoption is in fact very expensive, but not simply because of home country fees... much of it originates from the US government and airline expenses...

That would take her grant up to 7629.60 ( almost a third of the way to full funding )

Team Beatrice, we can do it... first time or tenth time... please help to wipe away the tears of this little child.

please click here:  http://reecesrainbow.org/?s=beatrice

for 30 seconds...

this morning when you hear your alarm go off...

when you're dreading getting out of bed...

and you just want to stay under the warm blankets and push snooze one more time...

could you take just 30 seconds and say a passionate prayer for Beatrice...

An advocates prayer...

for health, for protection, for comfort, for a family.

I will wake up happy, knowing I'll be joined by you for 30 seconds...

Thank you team Beatrice....


The babe who sleeps and eats in the very same room as our Shea used to... and who is just 3 months younger than our Emily... needs your help...

(thank you to Paul Metz from Manchester Baptist who rocked the mini auction with last nights high bid!)

The Basic Difference

On Sunday night, I put my Shea to sleep at 8 pm. I thought he had been long asleep, but an hour later I heard rustles and sniffles on the stairway. I opened the door to see a sobbing little boy. Grasping for him, and holding him tight, I comforted him....

after some time he was able to verbalize what his tears were about.

 

Shea was so sad for Beatrices eyes "not working", and so sad that she was in his grouppa and had no mommy and daddy. Shea knows the "basic difference". He has lived it, and can feel it...

The differnces are real and harsh. They break the heart of a 6 year old boy.

Here is sweet Beatrice...
 

Please make a difference for her... build her fund so that a family can bring her out of oppresion, to be treasured, defended, and protected.... our family thanks you...

to donate click here:

http://reecesrainbow.org/?s=Beatrice

SEE

Today is Thursday...going on Friday. For many of us this means "paycheck time". I am going to donate to Beatrice tonight... could you consider doing this too?


This little girl has hit some major bumps in the road... more bumps than her little heart can even comprehend yet....


please help her over a bump...


If we all gave just a percentage of what we might spend on a dinner out this weekend, or a movie... a lot of littles make a big...


This is Beatrice... please SEE her. Her eyes are weak and frail... our eyes are strong. Please God let us SEE her....


"Now then stand still and SEE this great thing the Lord is about to do before your EYES."
1st Samuel 12:16


http://reecesrainbow.org/?s=beatrice please click on this link, donate, SEE... goodnight, I pray to wake to a larger number for this treasure...

Exist

This will be short and sweet...


If you have a child... close your eyes and picture them. Now imagine that you no longer exist, and picture your child being raised by 3 or 4 hired women, who care for a score of children, and who may or may not have any emotional connection to your child. Imagine your child having a medical condition or illness and not getting the basic health care they might need. Imagine your child having the same exact routine everyday. Imagine the meals your child has as being repetative and basic, possibly lacking in nutrician. Imagine when your child has a fever or pain that there are no devoted arms to comfort them. Imagine that they have intestinal parasites that are not alarming, but just normal life in the place that they live...


Now think about sweet Beatrice....much of this could be very real for her at this moment. This was the plot for our children Simon, Danielle and Shea before we "existed" to them. This was their lot before all the amzaing donors and supporters existed for them...


after a nice weekend of grant growth... Beatrice has had no new movement for over 24 hours...


Please exist for Beatrice... in any way, shape or form.


to donate... even what you may think is a small amount... please go here:
http://reecesrainbow.org/?s=beatrice


please share this blog, and or her link. Please pray... please exist for her...


thank you....

We will have faith that this child will have a home...

... weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning. When I felt secure, I said, "I will never be shaken." Psalm 30:5b and 6
 

Last night I went to bed feeling discouraged...I shared with Dan. I was very happy and grateful that 4 more donors had stepped forward for Beatrice's sake, and her grant was 200 dollars larger than it had been one day prior...
 

but....
 

I had put my hopes up very high...

I thought I may have 100's of "shares"

I thought I may have seen scores of donors...

I was hoping for something magical...
 

Then there was a lull... and when I went to bed, I was discouraged for Beatrice. I have no idea why God had now laid this soul so heavily on my heart. It's consuming, and honestly at times when God does this to me I wish he wouldn't...because it hurts my heart to have thoughts in my mind that never stop about a sweet child I have never seen, smelled, touched... but it's not for me to understand, and God has told me to get to work for this little girl.
 

Consumed? what do I mean by that? The very first thought I had in the morning was to "check on Beatrice...so that's what I did. Before I have even wiped the sleep from my eyes, or moved a limb out of bed, I grabbed my phone and checked her FSP. Morning can be stressful in our home to say the least, a million potties...beds to change, spills to be wiped, meds to pass, braces to don,... by the time the fourth child is completed, the first child has undone everything and we start all over again. We've been known to say it takes an act of congress to get our family out of the house in the morning, even if it's just to go to the playground!... but my despair was turned to joy before I even rolled out of bed in the morning. 600 more dollars had been raised, and we were now up to 800 dollars since late thursday night!
 

Consumed? All day I've felt I was being told to write this entry... but who has time while juggling this family on a saturday? You all know I can be a tad ocd... but yet here I sit... lunch messes still on the floor of the diningroom, some dishes in the sink, danielle has snuck a bag of marshmallows out of the cupboard, and emily is napping...instead of my mad dash to get working on all the things in the home that call to me... I am writing as I feel it is needed for sweet Beatrice.
 

Every click of a donation brings a child closer to a family. Adoption of a child, especially a child with special needs from a foreign land can be daunting. The financial impact of an adoption can be even more daunting. Taking away one of the major fears...the cost... often gives that family who is nervous on various fronts the courage to trust God, trust that they will be equipped, and say "YES". (Trust me... been there, done that!)
 

Again last night, in the "wee hours" Emily woke ( Emily who is just months older than Beatrice), called for mamma. A mamma came and soothed her so that she could drift back to sleep. During the day Emily had sniffed in deeply the aroma of lilacs, and gotten dandelion fuzz up her nose ( something that Beatrice might one day be able to do if she is given a surgery to reconstruct the cartiledge of her nose ), Emily was able to be hugged tight after scraping a knee, and her tears were wiped away ( does Beatrice even produce tears? we don't know what she anatomy she has where healthy eyes should be, but someday they could be cared for and monitored, and followed by doctors who would do all that they could ).
 

Emily had the chance to see a picture of Beatrice on the computer, she stopped and looked, and pointed, .... she did not say "baby" or "pretty" or "gentle" as she normally does when she spots another babe... She said "EMILY". My daughter, saw herself in Beatrice... just as I do.
 

That is why I'm consumed. Beatrice should have a momma just as emily does... and all the wonderful shakes in life that our kids do...
 

I'm out of steam here... please go to this link and donate
 

http://reecesrainbow.org/41025/beatrice

... after you do this, please share it, share it, share it...and then pray... hard...
 

Beatrice needs more advocates than this one consumed mommy who has so much on her plate... I will take your help eagerly! Thank you...
 

Liz, Dan, Simon, Danielle, Shea and Emily Kulp....