Monday, January 12, 2015

New week, new update!!

Today is Monday January 12, 2015.  Our FBI background checks will be picked up on Wednesday and sent via federal express to the family that is hand carrying them to Eastern Europe.  They are leaving on the 19th, so the last piece of our Dossier will be delivered on January 20, 2015.  Then we wait to be submitted, we are hoping this will be January 29, 2015.

We need to have our FSP read $10,000 in order to make our first trip in March.  It shows $1,030 so we just need another $9,000 and we can go!  Please find it in your hearts to help us make this happen for baby Maureen.  She needs a family and she needs out of the orphanage so she does not get transferred to the adult mental institution.  The following link is to a story that Diane Sawyer did about these precious children and what happens to them when they are transferred
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/utah-family-saves-ukraine-girl-15236476 

We know first hand the amazing difference that will be made in Maureens life.  When we first brought Arielle home from the orphanage she was 1 year old and just laid on the floor on her back and did nothing and she only weighed 12 pounds, she was severely malnourished. She hardly even smiled.  Now we have been home five months and she is a totally different baby.  She weighs around 20 pounds, she is 16 months old, she crawls, she laughs all the time, she plays with toys and her sisters, she is pulling up to tables and things trying to stand and before we know it she will be walking. All things that she would have never done in an orphanage being kept in a bed 24/7 and had she been transferred, if she made it that long, she would have died very quickly.

Maureen needs heart surgery just like Arielle did, we need to get her home, get the surgery she needs and give her the opportunity to thrive and grow and have a wonderful life!

4 comments:

  1. Adoption didn't work so well for poor dead Yommy Musser!

    Kids aren't potato chips - you don't have to go back for more!!

    Also? The lack of $$? How dare you doubt Jesus's will -- he doesn't want you to buy another ukrainian dumpling!!

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  2. Thank you Sandra for those very Christian words!

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  3. Amazing things DO happen when these precious babies find families, too bad that not everyone can see that! You are doing wonderful things Lola! I look forward to doing anything that I can to help and be an encouragement!

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  4. Thank you Dyana, you are very kind!

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