Brigita #13

Brigita #13

This little girl needs to find her forever fmaily and fast!!! She will be sent to an institution very soon, Please share this , Pray for her and help her find a forever family!!

Dear Sweet Josephine

This is sweet litle Josephine, Instead of preparing for kindergarten like she should be, she is hidden away and facing life-long suffering in adult mental institutions around the world. She is an orphan who needs a family and fast. In her country when shortly after turning five she will be sent from the "Baby House" and sent to an adult mental institution where she will not recieve an education, no toys, no treats and no love. Please join with me and help me save this little girl for a much brighter future! Please join me in praying for her, donating and sharing to others about her bright little face so she will thrive even more. She looks so ready to give her new family hugs and kisses, Please help take up this cause and lets see God at work. :-)

Your donations and advocacy efforts truly can bring every one of these children HOME into loving forever families. They should never have to step foot into a mental institution. Money is the only thing standing in the way. They deserve friends, a family, and a future. Help us raise $5000 or more for each of our 5 year olds to celebrate our (Reeces Rainbow)
5 year anniversary!

To donate and find out more about this precious child please click the title Dear Sweet Josephine above. Thanks and God Bless

A day with Becca

Aren't daughters wonderful! I have been blessed with Four!! Yesterday I got to spend the day with Becca and we had a photo shoot day, and it is even better when they are not to embarrassed to still play along and listen to mommy. Most of my kids would not climb under the ropes (cause it is closed) so mom can take some pics of you where the Easter bunny will be this weekend. lol But Becca was a good sport! lol

And Becca who couldn't wait for her belly to get big so she could see the baby more is now seeing how hard it is to get out of the floor, in another month it will be a chair! Bye bye feet!! But so worth it!!!
She is going to make a great mommy!!!

A few more pics we took that day

What a good day we had!






And Laken, Last night she spent the whole night chatting to a nervous mom while I was at the hospital. Nothing serious, But thank you for being there for me Laken, I loved having the extra hours to chat the night away...

And poor Bethany is laying on the couch with a fever, so I hope she feels better soon! Savannah is chattering away! Hmmm... Reminds me of Laken, lol
Hugs to all my kids, I love you all completly!!!!

More stumbling blocks of Satan

Things went pretty good after we got the kids both home and both of them having therapy at the house. Bethany had awful kidney stones so that was a constant worry. One very sad moment though, before we got to have Savannah as our own, Grannie passed away. I can remember granny would come up to me all the time and say we are still getting our little girl right? I had pictures of Savannah everywhere, She was getting ready to come for a visit and grannie went to heaven before she got to meet her. Oh how she would have loved her, She was so thrilled with Isaac. He was the spoiltest boy around with two grandma's mommy , daddy and so many sisters and a brother to boot all in one house.
Things went well as they grew. Isaac seemed to be in the lead with all the learning, but Savannah caught on quickly and she went from not even being able to sit up at eleven months when we got her to walking all in about four months! They both chattered away and got along so well. Then Isaac seemed to start lagging behind. Getting more upset with tantrums, even throwing tv sets, moving furniture around. A little whirl wind , He wouldn't hardly sleep and when we did it was mommmy holding him in a recliner. We soon found out that he had autism and adhd. We got help and things soon started to get a little bit more quiet at our house.
One thing all the kids loved was going to church. Isaac and Savannah loved to sing! Mommy and Daddy were in the choir and Isaac would love to join in. By the time he was four he didn't have much of a vocab, but he made his own words up. He was so sweet.
Well it was getting time for them to come out of the nursery and go into the older childrens room, into awanas. They had just started preschool and loved that. The first time I let them stay, I was soo nervous, I so didn't want to leave them. We had found out that Isaac had a gap in his vertibrae so I was afraid of gym time, so I explained this to the teachers and they assured be, he would be fine.
Well, Don't know how much I listened to that service. Instead I was listening to hear my lil ones. But all seemed to be well. After service, My oldest daughter Laken and I headed down to get Isaac and Savannah. When we got there they were sitting on a table coloring. I was so surprised they were being so good, so still. lol
As soon as I walked into the room. A lady I went to school with, knew for years was upset. I asked if they had caused a problem, She said, no but all the would do was sit there and color. She said it over and over again. I thought wow that was great, But she started saying they didn't learn anything and she didn't think they should come back to awanas! I was stunned, asked again and she said the same thing. I looked and Laken and we both gathered Isaac and Savannah up while the other teachers looked on and we walked out.....I was numb, mad..dumb founded. I am not one to have a bad temper. I wish at that moment I did. I just held it in. Then as I drove down the road I cried. I got home and told my husband who hadn't been feeling well what had happened. He thought maybe I had misunderstood. I knew I hadn't. A few days later Laken was scheduled to have surgery on her shoulder. The pastor came by while we were in the waiting room to pray with Laken and offer encouragement. I kept thinking, Do I say something bring it up? After a few minutes of us just sitting there, I took the plunge and explained what had happened. I could tell he was speechless. He said he would look into it and see if we could all work it out. Maybe all get together and dicuss it. I thought that sounded like a great idea.
The Pastor left right after, still looking uncomfortable. Laken went on in to surgery not long after. The surgery was not the best sucess. She still has trouble with that shoulder. I kept waiting to hear from the Pastor. Thinking he would call before church sunday. But I never did hear from him. I had even more hurt feelings. Thinking well, who else doesn't want to be around my sweet little children

I think it was the first time my eyes saw the predjuices of other people. And it hurt. I loved these kids with all my heart. How could they..... and I did the worst thing possible. It harmed my whole family... I let Satan win. We stopped going to church.... It brewed and burned in me and I thought, well we won't go where we are not wanted. And I can tell looking back now how much that decision changed each one of my family members lives. I am sure Satan was happy. He had won. I was just to blind to see it. Slowly we all drifted away from God and his ways. Slowly let things in around us that we wouldn't have before. Family bible time had disappeared ..Family time game night. More fussing, less hugging. We were living, but not for the Lord like we should. Not singing his praises like before. Not talking about the Bible like we used to. Things kept getting worse over time, Finally Eric and I had decided to call it quits. We were both so unhappy. Just hadn't seen what was missing was what we needed most. After a couple of weeks of being even more miserable Eric came back home.
We would ocassionally visit a church here and there, but not steady. Nothing that we carried out through our week. Laken and Becca had both already grown and long moved out. Then one day Savannah was singing a song she had learned at school, and she knew every word. I said Savannah lets sing Jesus Loves Me. And she had no idea what I was talking about.... I was stunned. I had always taught my other children everything I ever knew about God but I hadn't Isaac and Savannah. I was to busy making sure they learned everything else that was deemed important that I over looked the most important! God!!! Even though they are saved , just think how many people they can reach in there lives if they learn to pass on the message too. My eyes were opened! I started reading my bible, reading study books, praying for my kids, my husband, My family. And weep, I would weep when I prayed , I felt so ashamed of what I had done, What I had let happen all becuase of one woman's words, Words that she probably never gave a second thought too. A few years later during our visiting times, we went back to that old church. The people all seemed nice, The Preacher lit up when he saw us there, Came and talked to each of us. He and his wife even came to our house a few days later and he apologized for all that had happened and how it was handled. We told him not to worry about it. We had forgiven him, and we had. And We prayed for forgiveness for ourselves. I should never have let a person keep me from God's house. He is who we are there to serve. Not each other. I pray every day for my kids and Eric. that God will make us for lost time, that they will each become even closer that they were before! And I do have to say. God is good. My parents have been going to church now. Never have, and they take Laken with them. She is growing closer and it is such a good feeling to know my parents are saved! We can now all talk about God together. Becca is getting more curious and hopefully she will find her way back to church too. I know they each know God, Pray to him....Ijust pray they will learn from there mothers mistakes and not forget to worship Him as He should be!
So this was a big stumbling block in my life. I am sharing it so hopefully it won't be in any one else's life who may read this. And I do have to say, God has made me even more humble and I look to Him more than I ever have. Thank You Jesus!!!

Stumbling blocks by Satan

When you first think about adoption it comes across your mind, will you love them like you do your other children. I can remember when we first went to meet Isaac for the first time after we left I told Eric, my husband that I wasn't sure if we were doing the right thing. While we was there. Isaac was so attached to his foster mother. I kind of felt like I was taking her baby. Isaac didn't seem to notice me, But he did take up with Eric. Which surprised me because he isn't the baby person Like I am. When I said that to Eric with all the doubts rushing through my head. Eric's reply was, "No, That's my boy!" I remember looking at him and thinking who is this person. Sure he had agreed to adopt becuase I wanted another baby so badly. Looking back, I know who was talking, the Holy Ghost was putting a stop to what Satan was putting in my head, Fear... Afraid I wouldn't know what to do, Wouldn't be good enough,,,Maybe not even love him... The next day we went back to bring him home. I had spent a long night praying and as soon as we got there he reached right for me.

And there was that bond that very second and I knew God would make everything alright!


When we got home, we showed him to Grannie and Grandma who lived with us at the time and they were so excited,

which is an understatment and to make it even more special it was grandma's birthday! All the kids were all so excited!!!

Then a couple weeks after we got Isaac home I recieved a call about a little girl who was 4 months old with downs syndrome who's birth mom was looking for a home for and they were refering her to us, if we still wanted. I was soooo excited!! But... I had to talk Eric into it. And I don't think I ever shut up...Talk about NAG NAG NAG...But we got her, Savannah Rayne joined our family when she was 11 months old

Spring! Love it!!!

I got an email from Reeces Rainbow this week informing me that lil Isabelle will not be sponsored by them any longer because she was found not to have special needs. We will continue to pray for her and hope she finds a forever family soon!
We were assigned a new little girl for the Easter fund raiser, Her name is Carol Ann.

You can learn more about her here

Please help us raise funds for this sweet girl so she can have a much better chance at finding a home.






Also this week, Our oldest started taking Floral arrangment classes in college. Here is her first assignment and doens't it look beautiful in our breakfast nook!

We are so proud of you Laken. She is so artistic in so many ways! Talant she must have gotten from my sister Angie. I just had to go outside and take some more pics, they look soo much better! Love these flowers Laken, Thanks so much!!!

We also got a chance to play outside some this week, so I just had to get the camera out!

Finally a picture of Raven,
Next will be Becca and her ever growing tummy. She is 7 months pregnant with lil Olivia that we call can't wait to meet!! Hopefully since it is getting pretty I can get them all together at one time! I always make this my wish for Mothers day, Hopefully I can get them all together before then, lol