Please visit and bid if you can!

Amanda from Starfish Foster Home has sent some special auction items from China that Daleea has put on 'One Child At A Time'. What great gifts for Christmas and what a wonderful way to help a special child in need.

Also, check out these beautiful bracelets.

Click the picture to be taken to the site.

Quote off of Starfish website: "Most of you also know that November is National Adoption month. Over here in the U.S., we have launched a fundraiser with the help of the boutique artisan company, Ettika -- they make super cool jewelry that has been featured in In Style, People, and Star Magazine and they outfit several celebrities. Together we have designed a special STARFISH BABIES' BRACELET to raise funds for the home. EVERY penny except the base cost of goods goes to the babies. The bracelet was featured in StyleBakery.com on October 30th."

Please continue to pray for Amanda and the children at Starfish.

An amazing testimony!

I just ran across these two videos and was very moved by this lady. Both parts are about 15 min. in total, but well worth the 15 minutes. Eliana sat on my lap and watched both of them and was very interested in what Gianna had to say. I am so sad about how many lives that I know of personally that have been murdered all in the name of "a woman's choice". I can only dream about what their little lives would have been like and how happy a couple would have been to adopt those children. Life is so precious and needs to be protected.

I am so grateful to all those birth mothers out there who have chosen life for the precious life they carried and even more grateful to those who have giving the most precious gift of life to someone else. Thank you for choosing LIFE!

On the road to recovery!

After being in and out of the doctor's office since returning home we got into an ENT today. Eliana was doing so much better with her ears last week and then the weekend came and that was a whole different story. Sunday was a lot worse than Saturday. Well, Karen at K1 deserves a huge standing ovation and the Mama Helper award (I made that up)! She spent so much time over the weekend looking for where she saw something about Otitis Media, and then sent me articles about Otitis Media and cleft palates and such. She armed me for Monday morning and we got into the on-call doctor. I won't go into it all, but Mama called Eliana's doctor very mad, telling him that she was very very unhappy and that my daughter doesn't have "swimmer's ear" as the doctor said. Finally, after being on the phone with everyone I could think of trying to help Eliana, I got a call from our doctor who said I was right...this has gone on long enough. He got us into the ENT. Poor baby got her ears suctioned out and he found a perferated eardrum on the left, and fluid behind the right. So now we are on the road to recovery. Praise the Lord that I had the Mama drive to rattle every office I could until we got into someone who could help. The ENT suggested we get tubes in right away so we are trying to get Eliana's appointment with Children's moved up so we can do her palate surgery and tubes at the same time.

She is already acting so much happier and is smiling a whole lot more. She is actually having a grand ol' time with her Daddy instead of falling asleep. He is beside himself as she didn't get a good nap today (due to the appointment) and is now over-tired. We're both just thankful that we were able to get her right ear cleaned out and treated before that eardrum ruptured as well. Once the pain and illness is gone, we should then be able to really get a sense of our daughter's true personalilty and traits.

This picture was taken on Saturday...her 2nd birthday. I just uploaded these pictures and realize she is pulling at her left ear the one with the perforation in it. If I had of only taken her to the ER like I originally thought. Her ear perforated sometime between this photo and Monday. Oh, my poor baby girl.

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I'm making a move.

Good afternoon. I wanted to let you all know that I'm making a move for Eliana's post over to her blog. It is password protected and if you have not gotten an invite feel free to write me and I will send you one. I am working on a new post right now titled "A girl with her puppy, or is it a puppy with her girl?"

If you have been invited already just click the picture to be taken over to "God Has Answered...Our Daughter Eliana."

I will still be using this blog, but I'm not sure yet what it will be used for. I have an idea, but can't share right now. :-)