Two sides of the same coin...

Sorry for the blogging break...

I can tell you exactly what happened...

SUMMER!!!

Activities, catching up on work after being gone for Henry's surgery, mini-vacation....all good!

Henry is doing well and gaining weight like CRAZY on the nighttime tube feeds!

But no Henry picture yet...

first I need to show you HER picture...

This is "Paisley" who was listed for adoption in Henry's country...she is 6 months old, like Henry was when listed...she has unrepaired spina bifida (from what I understand she can only lay on her side because of it) and will need major surgery the moment she hits US soil...

The Garner family has stepped forward in faith to make sweet Paisley their 9th daughter!!

Please click HERE to go to their Family Sponsorship page and bless them with a gift to bring this sweet baby girl home to the loving arms of family and medical care....

so that she does not have to see the other side of the coin...

like sweet "Porter" did...

Porter is now 6 years old...and a few weeks ago left his baby house...to be taken to a remote Stage 4 Institution in Henry's country for severely mentally and physically handicapped boys 5-25...

but Porter is NOT severely mentally or physically handicapped!!!

His Reeces Rainbow profile HERE says a mild mental disability and speech impairment and HIV+....

but a family who just adopted from his baby house says he talks up a storm and seemed cognitively normal...

an amazing woman who adopted her son from that same remote institution (it appears only 2 boys have been adopted from there through RR) says on her blog that he likely could not read (DUH! Neither could any of MY BOYS at age 6!) and/or could not answer their questions fast enough, so he was TRANSFERRED to a place that is truly horrific...

PLEASE go HERE to see updated pics of Porter and read about where he was transferred....

and then go HERE to see a video of sweet Porter dancing and playing at his baby house...

now picture him in a hot shed with NO TOYS and NO BOOKS and NO HOPE.....

just day in and day out of survival....wondering where everything he has ever known has gone...

maybe wondering what he did to cause this...

THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE!!!! THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN ON MY WATCH!!!

It is a blessing to adopt babies like my Henry and sweet Paisley so they never need to know the pain and horror of transfer...

but it is a RESCUE MISSION to go save a boy like Porter from YEARS OF LIVING HELL....

I will be shouting for Porter's family to come forward to SAVE HIM the next few weeks...

We have also donated our old minivan to Cars for Causes  and the proceeds of its sale will be placed in Porter's Grant Fund...

Please take a moment out of your day....

and really SEE the two sides of the coin of International Special Needs Adoption...

and give and share and pray as you can....

Henry says THANK YOU to all the caring American families who let special children like him into their hearts and homes!!!!