ALMOST THERE..... Giveaway

First I would like to announce our ''prayer sock'' winner...Congratulations Carol Miller, and thank you to everyone who participated. $250 was raised during that giveaway.

We attempted a Bake Sale giveaway but it was a flop without a single participant.  That means we still have lovely prizes to give away and we need some winners. And I can't think of a better time to celebrate with prizes than now.... Our paperwork has arrived in the desired country and that means we are waiting on travel dates. Yes you read that right wahoooo. We had expected to submit much sooner but there was a huge delay at no fault to ourselves. We have received a couple grants due to changes in our adoption and now we only need $9212 for in county fees. Ricky being 16 must wait up to 20 days on a background check to receive his passport, We are not sure if that time will be swallowed in our time there or if it will be added time, at this point we are not considering it in our financial need. We have had some changes to our adotion and we are adopting  4 children. We have added Denzel and Phoenix and another family is adopting Beth.... Our 4 kids will be home soon. If Denzel's adoption isn't completed by his 16th birthday we will also have the 20 day wait for him. AND....We have found someone to travel with us, YAY, That means we get to re-discuss getting to bring our kids. This person is great with kids and will help us travel safely with the children we are adopting. We need to raise an extra $1400 for her travel fees. She plans on staying our entire trip to help us with our bio's as well as the newly adopted children. All she wants out of it is to help orphans. We couldn't get the kids home without her help. That is a grand total of $10,612 and we will be FUNDED.  I honestly can not believe it. NOW WHO WANTS TO WIN SOME PRIZES????S

To Enter Simply donate $5 to our grant  HERE!  $5 will get you one chance OR every $20 will get you 5 chances. If you prefer to donate to our you caring page donate HERE
 Leave your name and the number of entries you donated  in the comment section here on the blog please. I will end this giveaway after we receive our travel dates.. Want a free entry? SHARE.  I will draw one name per prize until prizes are gone. I will also have a follow up post of all the winners once we draw. [we have added another family to this giveaway for the next 4 days see below]

                               

                    OVER $800 IN PRIZES 


                                       IPOD NANO 16GB

7TH GENERATION IPOD -VALUE $164.99

comes with all you see here, keep the music you love with you always. 

                                                                                                            

                         NINJA MEGA KITCHEN SYSTEM   

NEW NINJA MEGA KITCHEN SYSTEM- Value 230.00 USD

Thank you Carol

Ninja MEGA kitchen system 1500[BL770]

What is in the box.....

1500 watt motor base, 72oz. Blender Pitcher lid, total crushing blades. 64oz food processor bowl, food processor lid, chopping blade, dough blade, 2 nutri ninja cups, nutri ninja pro extractor blade, 2 ninja go lids, instruction book, quick start guide, inspiration guide. 

                                                                                                            

Hand Made Flower power quilt

MADE BY KATHY

Beautiful Soft quilt- value 70.00 USD

Amazingly soft quilt. Machine pieced and quilted. Size 35x46, 

the more you wash it the softer it will get. 

                                                                                                            

Hand Made Beautiful Quilt

Beautiful Soft Quilt- Value 70.00 USD

Machine pieced and quilted. Size 35x46

The more you wash it the softer it will get. 

                                                                                                            

PICK A CHILD 

Thank you anonymous

A chance to give- Value 50.00 USD

Choose any child with a waiting grant listed on Reece's 

rainbow for this donation in your honor. 

                                                                                                                  

           Hand painted stemware             

                                                               Thanks Amy

                        

set of four hand painted glasses- value 66 USD

This is a beautiful set of glasses hand painted.

                                                                                                            

 Handmade afghan 

Thanks Frankie

''Spring Garden'' unique afghan - Value 65 USD

I have never seen such a beautiful afghan. This is for sure a one of a kind. 

it is absolutely breathtaking and made with love. 

                                                                                                                                                                   

Handmade wooden box

Thanks Amy

Wooden Box- Value 40 USD 

An original wooden box from box limited inc.

 NY 11559 Made in India

  

            

                                                                                                            

Premier Designs earrings 

Thanks Amy

s

Designer earrings -Value 26 USD

This high fashion jewelry item is creatively and uniquely made of glass, ceramic, natural, acrylic or man-made materials and is artistically hand crafted or hand-painted to create a premier style. 

                                                                                                            

Child's purse

Thank you kalee

Child Purse - Value 10 USD

The outer is a sturdy fabric and the inside is lined with blue suede cloth and has a pocket. Not counting the handle it is aprox 2.5x 5.5 inches tall and 6.5 inches wide

                                                                                                            

Home school families

you will be entered in this EXTRA giveaway, just mention in the comments 

 that you are a HS family. To learn more about this book 

check out their website HERE.. 

MEDIEVAL DAYS

Thanks Julia

Remember  the Days -Value 49.95 USD

Medieval Days by Rob and Julia Nalle 

                                                                                                            

                                                           PIZZA MATH

                                          Thanks anonymous

                                    

                                    HOW DO OCTOPI EAT PIZZA PIE 10 USD

                             This is a very neat book for Elementary age children

                                                                                                             

                             

 

                                                               DONATE HERE 

                                            We also have a you caring page HERE .  

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ADOPTING A SPECIAL NEEDS ORPHAN PLEASE VISIT  

                                               REECES RAINBOW
                                                                                     CLICK HERE


                       for the next 4 days until 9/20 ......          

                                      this giveaway will also help The Nichols Family
In 4 days a family is flying across the ocean to rescue 3 orphans from the same orphanage as Denzel and Phoenix are in. This place can end up a horror story for children but not these three.


               
 

Their mama and papa are SO close but still need aprox $4000 to say YES to all three. This is a scary place to be and I am sure the family is hurting instead of celebrating because that is $1000 a day they need. Your donation will greatly affect this family. They have a $500 matching grant so your donation will be matched once they have raised the $500. Lets get help this family RUN  for their children.
Please DONATE HERE. Every $5 will get you 1 entry in our giveaway, every $20 will get you 5. PLEASE DONT FORGET.... to comment on my blog how many entries you donate for or let Nancy know so you will be entered. THANK YOU!

''Prayer socks'' and ''Lilies''

For those of you who know my story you know WHY we chose Elizabeth. She has the same diagnosis as two of my children. With no medical interventions she will die very soon. Children born in America,UK, and Canada... they have a chance to  beat the terminal diagnosis Countries like where this sweet girl resides, she will be lucky to survive months in an institution and she will be transferred in September to an adult institution due to her age... She is 5. Her fate is a crib  I only have two pictures of my child and a description stating that the orphanage is begging for a family for this little girl. They have nothing to help her live longer, her muscles continue to die. she is very smart and very well developed for her age but she needs special care, rehabilitation, and good nutrition. This plea for a family was over a year and a half ago, we have no update on her condition but we can only imagine knowing the disease and what it can do to the privileged I know she is in desperate need.

I haven't told you about her namesake. Elizabeth is not her real name and it isn't what we are going to name her. But she needed an alias name to be listed. When I found her I was very new to the Reece's rainbow community, I didn't know anything about her namesake. There was a lady from NC who loved all the children, she was a huge advocate for them, and searched tirelessly for families for those with special needs. In a way you can say her life was devoted to helping children find families. She was legend for her ''prayer socks'' She would make socks by hand and would pray for a child over every single stitch.  Every stitch of every sock was filled with a strong embodiment of love. This woman would spend hours pouring out LOVE into the socks dedicated to children listed on RR, she would auctioned them off. She raised 1000's to help children build their grants.

 For those who don't know about Reeces Rainbow.......what is this rainbow.... Basically it has became a society of love. It is made up of 1000's of people who truly care about the lives of children MOST they have never met. The orginization itself helps facilitators and agencies by listing the children in need of families, The RR community then advocates for the special needs orphans and raise grant funds in hopes the children will be adopted. This helps the future parents with the insanely high cost of the adoption. Sharing and blogging about the children really can help find a family and raise remaining funds for those who commit to adopt a child. I had never put serious thought into adoption until this past February. I clicked a simple link to Reece's Rainbow. It changed my life forever, I honestly had no idea these TERRIBLE things were happening to the  children, who will have no choice to EVER stop it. Having disabled children of my own I was crushed about this reality. 

Back to the namesake of Elizabeth

with ''Prayer socks'' in tow

 Sadly this amazing lady with the famous ''pray socks'' lost her life to Cancer over a year ago. There is a wonderful lady Lu that dearly treasured her friend Elizabeth because she gave her some information that would soon save her daughters life, Elizabeth was an amazing person. During Elizabeth's last days here on earth she sent her dear friend a cd so she could continue on her legacy, a legacy that changes lives with something as simple as a sock. Lu works for Reece's rainbow. She is a highly valued team member. She was given the honor of giving the alias name to this beautiful girl I plan to adopt. Due to the passing of her friend who is deeply missed by many and the fancy lace frilled socks that the sweet orphan was wearing, she named her Elizabeth. Lu then became this sweet girls angel tree warrior and she raised 1000's and auctioned of some amazing socks in sweet Elizabeths honor. 

I had never heard of the famous ''Prayer socks'' nor had I heard of this amazing advocate before my commitment to Elizabeth. But because of what happened the day I commit to adopt this sweet girl I will never forget her. Moments after my commitment and the announcement of such I received a message from Lu telling me all about her namesake, we hadn't talked much prior. But she told me about her name sake and that of all days I could of said yes to this child.... It was Elizabeth the namesakes Birthday. WOW.... 

 Oh, It gets better

I haven't announced what I'm naming Elizabeth yet but this past week I privately told Lu, and told her not to tell...... BUT I'm going to tell, I told her I would name her ''Lily'' because she is as delicate and beautiful as a flower. Now Lu still holds her sweet friend close, and totally thinks her friend is up in heaven orchestrating things. she instantly asks the namesakes best friend if lilies hold any signifigence  to to the namesake... the best friend replied YES, her dad grows lilies in his garden. They are his most prized possession.

This child is meant to be with us but the only thing that stands in the way is the fee's of her adoption. We are trying very hard but we still need almost 8000 to add her to our adoption.  If you would like help we could use donations to our Grant. We really appreciate everyone who has been a part of getting us this far.  

''PRAYER SOCK'' GIVEAWAY

I am very honored to announce that Elizabeth's mother has donated one final pair of her daughters prayer socks to benefit the adoption of our sweet Lily. This pair of socks has 19,000 stitches, and let me remind you each stitch equals one prayer from this sweet warrior. When she passed away this pair of socks needed one last stitch to complete them. Her mom with great honor completed that stitch for her daughter's  ''prayer socks'' all her mother had to do to complete them was the final stitch closing the toes. We are doing a giveaway for the socks. You will get one entry for every $5 you donate to our adoption grant, every share of this blog post will also get you a free entry. Please leave your name in the comment section with the amount of entries you have earned.  We will announce the winner August 23rd. 

Elizabeth is not the only one needing a family

Meet Stirling he was born in 2002, he has lived in a crib his entire life, he deserves better than that, this was my Elizabeth's fate until i decided to adopt her. This boy is almost out of time someone please change his fate.  

A family for sterling

Meet Leilani she is so fragile and sweet and deserves the love of a family. surely someone can look at this sweet girl and see their daughter. Please she was born in 2009 and has been transferred to a really bad place, she needs out. 

A family for leilani