Simplified Symphony!!!

So a few people mentioned they wanted to donate on our last BIG PUSH to fundraise....

but they found all the giveaways and options a big confusing...

you know what?

Me too. And I even had my coffee :-)

So I am going to make this simple....

GO HERE:

http://reecesrainbow.org/57151/sponsordobrovits-2

and donate $10 or more to our TAX DEDUCTIBLE adoption fund.....

and you will automatically be entered to WIN ALL THE PRIZES listed at www.covenantbuilders.blogspot.com (including a 2nd gen iPad and Otterbox donated in honor of my Henry! AND a $500 Visa Gift Card AND a Canon Power Shot Digital Camera AND and iPad Mini AND your choice of a Kindle Fire/Nintendo 3DS AND a whole bunch more gift cards, gorgeous art prints, etc.

If you can SHARE on your blog or FB just leave a comment below and I will make sure you get an entry (everyone who has shared up until now HAS been entered also)!!!!

Simple, right!

We have had $770 since the Symphony began on Friday and we need $1,730 more to meet our matching grant of $2500!!!

We hope to have a travel date to receive our childrens' referral very soon and bring them home before Christmas!!

We could not do this without all of you!!! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!!

Please join us at the Symphony!!

First, please go to:

www.covenantbuilders.blogspot.com

The amazing Julia has put together an amazing fundraising giveaway for us...

And a few other families...

And a few precious boys...

And I am in tears that the grand prize,

an iPad, was donated in honor of Henry!!!

PLEASE this Friday ---

Pick a boy...

Pick a family...

Share Julia's post...

And enjoy the beautiful music of the celestial conductor as played by wonderful people LIKE YOU who are helping there be fewer orphans and more perfect melodies in this world!!

It's Henry Day!!

2 years ago today, the afternoon of September 9, we brought Henry home to our entire family.

So many joys...

So much sorrow...

So like all of life.

Today lets celebrate the joy.

And lets do it with french fries.

French fries were the first solid food Henry would eat and we think it is because he could feed himself (rather than having food shoved down his throat which would make him aspirate due to his cleft palate).

Today, I am getting my children fries. Big bunches of fries.

And we will eat them...

and maybe cry just a little bit...

but we will remember our little guy who had 14 months of fries and love.

Nine Months

Hey Momma's buddy...

Have fun sliding doors in heaven!

See you soon!

Love, Mommy

How much is a life worth?

2 Years Ago Today...

We met Henry.

And thus began his life as a son and brother and nephew and grandson...

The part of his life here on earth with us lasted 467 days.

His adoption expenses were $24,000...

We spent a minimum of $5000 in 2011 AND 2012 on medical deductibles/copayments/medications for him alone...

We spent at least another $2000 on special formula and non-covered therapies...

I will not even try to quantify the cost of my/my husbands lost work during his 8 hospitalizations...

So $36,000.

For 467 days.

Seem expensive??

This costs $36,000....

This was $36,000....$ 77.08 for each precious unrepeatable irreplacable day....

Happy "Meetcha" Anniversary my sweet darling baby boy.

SUBMITTED!!!

Which means that our dossier has been accepted by a certain Eastern European country AND that the sibling group IS still available for international adoption AND that we should be traveling in 10-12 weeks!!

Thank you Jesus!

This is not about Henry....

...but it could have been.

Henry's fate in the country he was born in was sealed.

To lie in a crib in an orphanage. All day. Every day.

To never go outside except in an ambulance for monthly trips to the hospital for aspiration pneumonia.

To die during one of these illnesses.

According to Henry's pulmonologist, he would not have survived the winter after we brought him home in the fall of 2011.

We paid a ransom to give Henry 14 months of love. Of a family.

And we received infinitely more than we gave.

There was another beautiful baby boy who was born in the same country.

And he was transferred out of the baby house to an institution.

Someone in Canada loved him.

His Reeces Rainbow name was Hanson and he died alone just days ago, not knowing he was loved from afar.

Today in Canada there will be a Requiem High Mass said for Hanson. With a full choir. With many in attendance. The little boy who lived and died alone will, for a few hours, be surrounded by love on this earth just as he is now awash with love in heaven.

My dear friend Julia asked on her blog  that we all remember Hanson today and let his special friend in Canada know that we are joining them in spirit by lighting candles for Hanson, the other boys from his institution who have been found by their families, and the ones who still wait ("The Lost Boys").

Someone much more talented than I made these candles to represent our thoughts and prayers.

I would ask you to pray especially for those "Lost Boys" (names under the pink candles) who are in the same place and still need brave families to step out and rescue and love them.

Because every boy deserves a family...

Even if it costs a ransom....

Even if it is just for 14 months....

Rest in the peace of Jesus with my sweet Henry sweet Hanson.