Making a difference- one orphan at a time

Today Dave finished his autobiography for our home study. His ended up to be 9 pages long. And he says I am the talker :) I won't embarrass him by posting everything he wrote but I will post a snippet of his words. 

I think the most important event of my life was the birth of Jacob, getting married to my wife is the only thing that even comes close.  The meaning of my son’s birth to me was basically telling me I need to be a better man so I can be the best father.  If my sons loves me like I loved my father then I think I am doing an excellent job.  Which brings me to my greatest disappointment in my life; I will never get to see my father with my sons.  Just once I would have loved to see that..just once.

I never met his father. He passed away in 2001, but I bet he was one heck of a man. Actually I can honestly say he was a wonderful man because I am sure he was just like my husband. I couldn't imagine a better husband or father. A man who puts in so many extra hours to try to earn the funds we need to bring our son Cliff/Joshua home. A man who stays up late to type out 9 pages for his autobiography. The same man who gets up in the middle of the night to take Jacob into the steamy shower when he is croupy. The same man who calls me beautiful when I am not feeling beautiful. He never needed his son's birth to tell him to be a better man. He has always been the best. 

Someone once said to us that you can't save them all and to a certain degree they are correct. We personally can't save them all but we can save one and maybe by sharing our story or Reece's Rainbow we can bring voices to these children. If you are parent, imagine your child being sedated to keep them quiet. Imagine your 2 year old sitting in a crib for hours on end. Imagine taking a disposable diaper, rinsing it and putting it back on your child's bottom. This happens for these children. Imagine not having enough formula and feeding your baby broth instead. Imagine seeing bumps and bruises on your child because they have resorted to that behavior for stimulation or self soothing.

Doing nothing is not an option for us. Our son is there and the longer he is there the worse it gets for him. I am his voice and I will not stop until I can bring him home. I have to admit I was a little naive in going forward with this effort to raise the funds we need. My husbands biggest fear was making sure we could pay our bills and work extra hours to help pay for our adoption and still come up short. I told him it would be simple. I have x amount of friends on face book and they have x amount of friends to share our story with. It is a legitimate charity and people would be willing to help. I have had quite a few friends come through and help. Even friends who are involved in the own adoption fund raising have pitched in. But my whole thought of making this big fund raising push to raise not only our funds but everything extra would go to helping my other friends in their efforts has kind of gone out the window. 

God has a plan for us. I know this because he brought Cliff/Joshua to me. I am going to trust in him and continue to pray that when the time comes he will provide us with what we need to get our son home. If you are looking for ways to help us make this a reality please check out the tab at the top of the page- Ways you can help! Thank you for those that visit my blog and offer up support one way or the other. You are helping to make a difference one orphan at a time. God bless you!