More Miracles And A New Venture! Forget-Me-Not-Friday.

I couldn't have screamed louder if a gorilla had jumped out on me!

ALEX HAS A FAMILY!

Joanna and Amber, God heard your beautiful voices praying for him!

Alex
Orphan No More!

Joanna you commented last week saying, ' I can't wait for the day you can post that he has been FOUND'. Well here I am, only a few days on posting that very thing! Don't you just love living in a world with miracles!

And then underneath Alex's picture look who is there...Josiah!



Josiah
Orphan No More!

Forget-Me-Not Friday has become such an important part of my life as are all these children and through it I feel so humbled to experience God's miracles.

And so i make a plea for everybody to grab the Forget-Me-Not Friday Button to help spread the word and to link up weekly. Spread the word, encourage people to visit and join in. Lets get these beautiful children seen by as many people as we possibly can...the next person may be a rainbow Mummy!


















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Did you notice the Sunday Writing Prompts had stopped? Well i tried to use a prompt myself and it didn't feel right! It only felt right to share my heart about these children and from what I can tell, you all felt the same. So the writing prompts have stopped and Forget-Me-Not Friday is now purely about sharing the faces of these children and our hearts in trying to find them families. It's all about showing people the truth and finding arms to hold these children so in need of love.

So what about Sundays now there are no prompts? Well today I want to announce a brand new Sunday venture from the flight platform that again I ask for your participation in. It's a new linkup called 'Sharing Sunday' and i hope it will complement the Friday link up beautifully.

Let's share on Sundays.

1. Let's share all those giveaways taking place for Reece's Rainbow children. Lets share all the opportunities people have to help.

2. Let's share the blogs of wonderful families all working hard to bring a child home.

3. Let's share the stories of the children already home with their forever families and use Sunday as a way to remind ourselves WHY we fundraise and why it is always worth it!

4. Let's share our wonderful moments with our own children, adopted from God in the typical way or adopted through other means and born in the heart! Let's remind ourselves of the wonder of children and how blessed we are to share our lives with them.

5. Let's share God's miracles and strengthen our hearts in a world where wonders happen!

Sharing Sunday is for everyone. Let your friends know... encourage them to share their parenting moments of magic here! Let Reece's Rainbow families know, let's hear from all you wondrous people who made it to the end of the rainbow. Let everyone doing a giveaway or fundraiser know. Let everyone who has felt the power of God in their life know! I cannot wait to read your posts.Grab the badge code from my sidebar and then link link link as many times as you like.

See you back here Sunday! xxx

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Here is the Forget-Me-Not Friday gallery, a tiny portion of all the beautiful, extra-special children on Reece's Rainbow,  each one desperate for a family to love them. Click on their name link to visit their page on Reece's Rainbow to find out more. These children really are on the 'frontline' of need, they need us to help! You do not need to adopt to help. Become a warrior for a child, or donate to their adoption fund to help a family find the huge amount of money needed for international adoption. Just re post or add my Forget-Me-Not Friday button to your blog. If you are a warrior come and link here weekly on Fridays, let me know beforehand so I can add your  child's face to the gallery. Link any post or write using an ongoing writing prompt of 'Forgotten'. Or perhaps you could adopt? Perhaps you could be blessed by opening up your heart to one of these children? Is your child here?



Francine



Reid

Tabitha



Elden




Aiden



Molly

Molly

This is what Reece's rainbow says about beautiful Molly through the words of a missionary who visited her recently...
"Molly is an absolute definition of pure joy! ''



Brody







Ryan




Maxim

 


Victoria





Emmitt

  

Rachel

   



Artem

 

Langley



Haven



Bethany



Porter



Lilianna




Nana







Victoria

Brigita





Celine



Cora Lyn



Anastasia



Igor



Yasmine
Facing Imminent Transfer!

Bogdan

Lizzy

  

I am thrilled to be linking up every Friday with 3 awesome ladies who also have big hearts for these children. They all do special Friday posts to find these angels forever families. Go visit Mandy over at, 'Our Adoption Story'. And then visit the amazing Andrea at 'Taking God's Love To The Ends Of The Earth'. and then go give some blogworld love to Julia over at Micha Six Eight

Familiar But New.

The sun was shining; the air was already sultry even though it was still early. A return visit to the children’s farm to love on the pygmy goats was planned and eagerly anticipated on this beautiful summer’s day.

It’s fascinating how children love the familiar. From favourite bedtime stories, repeated till pages crease, covers fall off and words are known by heart to family trips out…the familiar always seems welcomed by little souls. Children’s enthusiasm doesn’t seem to diminish with repetition like that of adults. So this second visit saw my kids hopping with excitement, chanting, ‘We’re going to the children’s farm today’ and doing a happy dance around the field.

Of course no visit with kiddies is ever a repeat experience; all is shiny and new when viewed through children’s eyes. And so we returned to the familiar but new, anticipating fresh adventure with excited children. The 'new' began immediatly with the goats as this visit saw the Big Billy Goat Gruff finally winning my kids affection. Shunned on their last visit as ‘scary’; he was now pitied for his lack of friends and fair share of 40p bags of feed. Poppy risking her fingers to feed him first, exclaiming, ‘Oh, he eats so mucky, he’s made my hand all brown!’

Busby seemed braver with all the animals this time round and Tilly ran around like some whirlwind force of nature in her own very personal exuberant manner…Ok so I admit no change there then! The mini-golf was adored this time by Busby, perhaps encouraged by his sister's pink leopard print trousers...if they are dressed like a golfer they become a golfer! Of course the water-squirters also remained a firm favourite!

The pen full of chickens was discovered this time holding my little boy spellbound for far longer than you would ever expect possible. Peeking through chicken-wire, he squatted to see more clearly the objects of his delight, squealing with pleasure. He called me over with chaotic signing, his skills still needing practice as ‘pig’ and then ‘donkey’ were signed before he landed ‘chicken’ correctly. I love that 'talking with our hands' is such a natural part of our lives; this boy is such a star!

 Poppy, looking after her siblings like the second Mummy she has become, walked her little brother tenderly down the field to see the ponies and donkeys with words of encouragement and signing lessons as they went. My big-girl whirlwind that is Tilly whooshed up behind us all just in time to watch Busby climb the gate in 3 seconds flat only to let go completely at the top to sign ‘donkey’! I caught him mid fall…just, and notched up another grey hair whilst whispering yet more pleas for eyes in the back of my head and at least one extra pair of hands!

Lunch in the play barn allowed me to sit back and watch my 3 kiddies, so strong in their sibling bond, laughing together. How did I get here so fast…I repeatedly sit in disbelief that I am even a Mum at all, let alone blessed enough to be Mum to this lot! Life is insane but Oh my goodness, just look at them, I wonder if I will ever recover from the mind-spinning awe of how much I love them all. Their lunchtime giggles only interrupted by the occasional wasp, reenactments of the 3 Billy goats gruff in the soft play and of course tractor rides.

New friends were quickly made to join in play adventure and chat. This delightful family then accompanying us in exhausted trudging up the ridiculously steep hill to the slate mine cafe for tea and cakes in the sun. Abandoned cottages hidden amongst fallen trees and fairy glades were all explored on our climb.

Then Poppy spied a ‘secret path’. It was a trail into a woodland world of old, the dappled sunshine through the ancient branches surely heralding the homes of fairies and spirits. We all were all intrigued to explore and find out what new world it would lead us to.

Ancient woodland is truly spectacular and wonderment filled the air as we explored. Lizards basked along slate rocks on either side, enjoying the damp heat found under the trees. I love moments like this with new friends and time stood still, nature engulfing us and bringing enchantment to all of our souls, both little and grown up.

The secret path twisted its way to a simple finish, ending at a small gate leading into an empty field. There was no fairy palace or tree of elves, but as with many memory moments, it’s the journey not the destination that should be savoured.

We waved goodbye to trees brimming with the history and secrets of days gone by, stopping for one last feed of the goats when we reached the farm. My kids and their newest best friends were soon covered in stolen straw and full of smiles, such a wonderful way to end our day. A day so familiar but still so wonderfully new.