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Orphan Hosting | Other - YouCaring.com

Summer Hosting

We are scared, excited and but also feel so blessed! We believe we can make a difference in one more child's life! Anybody can make differences, by praying, sharing, donating and just supporting emotionally! We cannot afford adoption now, and also our current housing situation will not let us adopt another child. Hosting it's another option to help orphan! Our kids are super excited to help and bring another child into our family! I get questions everyday, when will she come! 

We never though that we would host, it was something that we never fully understood. But God was doing His job in our hearts and home. 

If you remember, about 2 year ago we did respite care for V., Ukrainian orphan who came here on hosting program, but things didn't go the way they should in his first family, and he spend 3 weeks in our home. It was a blessing! We got a chance to bless him, pray over him, cloth him, and just spend really good family time together.  It was new experience! His family found him, and now he is with his new family! 
Also about 1 year ago we did respite care for another little boy Kolya. I didn't write much about him, because he spend only about 1 weeks with us. This experience was not so good , but we are happy we were there to help him. 

I was their mom, I was a person who took care of them! God gave me a privilege of being their mom, maybe for short period of time, but these who children called me MOM! I feel blessed! 

Hosting changed our hearts, and our view on hosting. Seriously, we thought, why host? Why give hopes to a child, if you know you will have to send back to the orphanage? It was us, it was our understanding of whole hosting thing! 
But God showed us different side of it! God was moving our hearts, and the way we were looking at hosting. And I asked myself these questions and  I can ask same questions many people. Why are you going to Hawaii,  Mexico, Caribbean Cruises, and any vacation? Why? You probably would love to live in Hawaii or any exotic place? And you should stay in your home, your everyday life because if you go and see Hawaiian life, you will probably want to stay there forever, but you know you cannot, so why even bother and go to vacation?

We want to bring a 14 year old girl to America, and give her summer vacation she never had.  This little girl recently lost her mom. We don't know much about her, but know that she is in the orphanage, with out family. If she will have a chance to come to America for vacation the experience itself will be more than she has ever had, and something that will likely change her life forever. This is her chance to see what "normal" is and to spend few weeks in a family.

We heard this not too long ago, and trying to live by this powerful words "God doesn't want us to be comfortable... He wants us to trust Him by doing something life changing" and   ''Our unusual response brings unusual blessings'' by Troy Marshall.

We have a donation button on our blog. Unfortunately costs of helping orphans, saving lives is high! But for God nothing is impossible! 

God's calling is clear:

James 1:27- "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." 
Psalm 68:5 - "A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy dwelling."
Matthew 18:5 - "And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me." 

Another day

Today is a great day, God made this day!
We need some prayers and know that God will help.

Only 3 children went to school today, instead of 6.
I have 1 child with high, very high fever, and medicine seems like doesn't' help much.
And I have 2 children who had to stay home because their class has a field trip today, and these two didn't make good choices to go with a class. These two children staying home because of their poor choices lately, and not many people willing to deal with their behavior.
Please pray for our whole family, so we stay safe and nobody else get sick.

Also I need some wisdom, patience to help our children make better choices.

I'm Adopted

Lately all my boys have issues at school with other kids. Many kids have no problem making fun of our boys, and tell them that being adopted it means that they been pick up and found in the garbage. :(
Its hard to comprehend that other human can say things like "this mom doesn't love you too, and she eventually will give you away" ''you are ugly'', ''you are homeless'' and many more negative things that I don't' even want to write on here :( I know this is kids saying all these things, but kids are sponges, and most of the things they say, they heard from adults.
  Its so sad to hear, it breaks my heart and there is not much I can do to help my boys when they are in school, because I am not there to protect them.
To help my boys, and give them more confident, we as a family talk more about adoption. We always did talk about adoption in positive way, and a lot, but now we concentrate more how blessed we all are to be adopted. God adopted us all, we been chosen! How special they are in our eyes! How much God loves them!

Not so long ago I found this video, and we all really like to watch this video! Boys going around, and singing all day long!

Our family

Portrait of our family! Done by artist ElliAna-4 year old!

Mommy in eyes of 4 year old is the biggest out of everyone!

Happy 12th birthday!

In February we celebrated our oldest son's birthday. Its hard to believe how fast time is flying. I already have 12 year old son. We met and brought him home in December 2009.

He is handsome, sweet, helpful, caring, loving,  and with huge heart!

In late 2009 we met our son. He was scared, lonely, and just not too happy little boy!

Today we have a confident, sometime too confident big 12 year old. 

Happy 12th birthday my son! I am so blessed to be your mom! He is my biggest helper, my joy, and just awesome son!

Lake Tahoe December 2013

I am behind in posting  and I will just share pictures of our Lake Tahoe trip  right before Christmas. We had a great time, kids loved it, and we spend 7 days there. It was me and my  7 children, and my sister Inna with her two babies. Sergey had to go to work, but he joined us for last 2 days. We rented the same house, and are so so appreciated and grateful to our "friends", and for their big heart. We are thankful that they did let us to rent their house again! It was awesome!

Movie time

 My niece Vicki

First evening my parents drove with us, and took Sergey back home. 

 My parents, my sister and little Sammy, me and Sergey

our twins on a rocking chair

 Breakfast time, they all fit :)

Play Doh fun

 two cute princesses

 baby Sammy

 We took kids out of school for whole week, and did some school work everyday

 playing wii

 It was kind of stormy for few day, but for one day it was just beautiful outside. We all had fun in the snow. 

 My beautiful sister and her little cutie

 A lot of joy :)

 All kids loved baby Sammy, and really enjoyed to spend time with him. They all were very gentle 

 We played many board games, and Twister too

 A little girl and shoes :) Best place to play

 This was our last day. Sergey came and we went a few houses down to have fun in the snow. Almost all snow were gone, but we found few spots where kids could enjoy sliding on the ice.

 DD and Denny

 Denny and EE

 Denny and DD, a lot of laughter 

 Sergey had his exercise for a day by pushing all the kids. He gave up and said, that it was his turn :) Kids couldn't even move him :)

It was great time as a family. Everyone did awesome. Kids behaved, and were very helpful. Will do this again some time later!