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Monday 21 February 2011

Nellie Wants a Family (and desperately needs one too!)





Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be tucked in at night by a different person each night?

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to go to sleep at night in a room with 10 others?

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to never leave your "house" and "backyard?"

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to know nothing outside of the gates that surround you?

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a mom and a dad?

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a family?

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be loved, hugged, held, read to?

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be embraced after a bad fall?

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be taken care of when you were sick?


Nellie has wondered all of these things and much more. How much we take for granted and never stop to think about what it's like to wonder. Close your eyes for a moment, pretend you're 4 years old, and what it would be like to wonder these things...

I raised money for Nellie and Sandra (who recently passed) over Christmas. Nellie is still with us and desperately needs a family to save her from the transfer to a mental institution VERY SOON! Nellie is in my heart....she is not one of the cutest children on Reece's Rainbow, perhaps she is having a bad day, but I can only imagine that every day is a not so good day when you are just wondering when your mommy and daddy will come to get you????

Nellie has almost $4,000 in her grant fund and it is climbing each day as I just mailed a check for her fund recently (thanks to some of my generous friends). Still thinking adoption is not for you....then pass this on to anyone you know.....put it on facebook, twitter or whatever else. You never really know how God will work.

I leave you with a quote that I am stealing from a fellow blogger, but it captures our own journey with Ellis Anne; our daughter with DS.



"I never knew I wanted a child with Down Syndrome until I had one."



Please consider donating to Nellie's grant fund. Help me find her family before it is too late!

Stephanie

4 comments:

  1. Hello!
    I am not sure if I commented before, but I have been lurking around for a while since learning that you are Anastasiya's family. She is SO sweet and I was overjoyed to learn that she will soon get out of the orphanage :)

    Hope someone will come for Nellie too... like you, I have a heart for the children with not-so-cute-photos (it doesn't feel good to say that, but you know what I mean). I pray someone will see past that and rescue this little girl, her warrior is working hard for her too.

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  2. Hi, I was wondering if you'd want a different header for your blog. If you need the one to be different, just let me know, you can always ask for changes...

    Lu
    lucille@reecesrainbow.org

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  3. My friend Julie is actually the originator of that quote. She is adopting Peter from RR. Here's a link to her blog: http://upsidedown21.blogspot.com/

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  4. I hope you got your girl home :)
    Signed...author of I never knew I wanted a child with down syndrome until I was given one

    upsidedown21.blogspot.com

    hope your family is doing great and getting ready for the holiday!

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