Christmas Ornaments from the Heart

Ohhh waiting....some days I am really good at it. Some days I REALLY struggle. To save a detailed explanation, we are waiting on word from IBESR (Haiti Social Services) before we can move to the next step (which also comes with more waiting). My struggles come when my birth children really have a need. When Molly's feelings get hurt at school or when Linc has a fight with the side walk and they need a mother's love to make things better my heart has an extra hurt for my children in Haiti. During these times I realize how much children need their own big person to call Mom or Dad. I think about how badly I want to be the comforter to my children in Haiti and I can't yet. I also find waiting difficult when I see how much the kids LOVE chasing their dad through the house or listening to him read. Don't get me wrong, I know how precious every second is with Molly and Lincoln and I value it, but still.... knowing that our other children are missing it makes me a little sad. In the waiting I find peace knowing that God is in control and that we truly believe His timing is perfect. He is grooming us to be the family that He needs us to be for our children.

In the meantime as we wait for our family to be complete, I think about all of these precious women in Haiti who desperately want to keep and mother their children but for economic reasons have to give them up. For most women in the U.S. this is incomprehensible. We may know women who depend on government assistance or other family members to help take care of their children, but very few (hopefully none) of us know a woman who has watched her children starve to death because of the lack of ability to feed them. This is the reason many children are abandoned in Haiti, not because of a lack of love, but because of love. These mothers and fathers want their children to have a chance to survive, a chance at life. Because this is so common in Haiti, non-profits have been organized to help employ these talented women and men to keep their children rather than having to terminate rights through an orphanage.

As a fundraiser for our adoption we are selling Christmas ornaments made by these special moms and dads who want to parent their children. The artisans have been paid for their work so from each ornament sold half of the profit goes into our adoption account and half goes back into the program to keep these artisans working.  These ornaments are made with great purpose and the love of parents who know what it means to lose a child in uncontrollable circumstances. These ornaments will be beautiful on your tree or make a perfect gift for someone else. It will serve as a great reminder to pray for those with struggles we can't really understand.

Please pray for us as we prepare to make a home for our children.
Pray that programs like the Apparent Project continue to have a market (people like you and me) to keep families together!

Each beautiful ornament is $8. Please share this with anyone you think might be interested in helping to sustain current families and create future families through adoption. You can message me or email me at amycarolinefitzgerald@gmail.com if you have questions or would like to purchase.