This week's Waiting Kids!

The process of adopting Luke has changed me FOREVER!! :) Seeing all those kids who need to be adopted, on the shared lists and adoption blogs, I feel like I really need and definetly WANT to help out! So, I want to share with you some kids who need to be adopted. The following Wonderful Waiting Kids are from the Journey Of Hope website. Could you be their Forever Family?

This wonderful waiting little ray of sunshine is 12 years old. Her name is Sunny and she's very shy. She is in 4th grade and her favorite subjects are Chinese and English. She likes to play basketball and run. Sunny has been with a foster family for six years now. Her foster mother describes her as kind and loving, likes to share and help with housework. She says that Sunny saves her money for donating. Sunny has a mild intellectual delay due to hydrocephalus and a brain tumor which was repaired about eight years ago. Sunny also loves arts and crafts and brought several of her handicrafts to show the team from Journey Of Hope!





Drake is a little Kung Fu man! He loves Martial Arts and put on quite a show for the JOH visitors! He is 7 years old, and developmentally at or above target for his age. He is very athletic and very smart. He is in the 1st grade. He's a handsome little fella! Drake has deformity of his left face and ear.





Hope is a 6 year old little glam girl! :) She loves being on stage, singing, and expressing her imagination. She is also very friendly and likes to be the center of attention. Hope is just beautiful, as you can see! She was diagnosed with hydrocephalus and had a shunt; however, she later developed epilepsy seizures. Her orphanage reports that she hasn’t had a seizure for 6 months at the time of the JOH program. She can take care of herself and is very independent.





Jaxon is 7, and is in 1st grade. He is a good student and his favorite subjects in school are Math and Chinese. He also likes reading. He's very friendly and likes to talk! Jaxon is missing his left hand. He made a very pretty and colorful picture for the JOH team, complete with birds and butterflies and a blue sky and a little pond with fish!




That's all for now! These children are all such sweethearts and I hope they all find homes!
If you would like more information on one of these lovely kiddos, then email me at doodlebug@att.net.

Other Links;
Journey Of Hope website
FTIA website
my mom's blog(advocating also)

Blessings,
Joy :)

How to be Beautiful...

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone."


-Audrey Hepburn

Thank you Cassie for letting me use this quote!
Isn't this wonderful? I thought it was very true.

Have a great week everybody!

Hugs,
Joy

Homemade....

I'll bet you couldn't guess what THIS is by looking at it....



It's lip gloss! Homemade! I got the original recipe from Ana at Girls Corner! She hasn't posted in a while, but I was going down through the blogs I follow, and I saw a post from a while ago called "What to do when you're bored". I was TOTALLY BORED. I had been playing outside almost all day, so I looked through the recipes and stuff to see what she had. We didn't have liquid starch or cornstarch, so I made the lipgloss. My first attempt ended up like the above! It's a redish color. It's cute, don't get me wrong, but not my kinda gloss. What I did with this one: I got vaseline, honey, a sample size portion of Mary Kay's "Simply Pink" lipstick, and red food coloring. I mixed it all together(With a straw)....and VOILA! All credit to Ana! If you wanted it really red, you could use red lipstick.

Then, for this one.....



My personal FAVORITE lip gloss of ALl time, I did the same thing, but instead of red food coloring, I put three samples of "Simply Pink!". So, it gave a shiny pink color. Mom even put some on! Simply Pink is like a lightish pink, but it's kind of bold too. So anything like that would work.

So that's about as crafty as I can get.....Maybe I'll attempt something a little harder later on. But until then, enjoy!

Love and Blessings,
Joy

**So I was thinking about starting another Diary Story like I made forever ago. In your comment, tell me which "Adventure" I should do! Here are the choices: Missionary, Egyptian, Chinese, Spanish moving to America, Colonial Times. Help me decide!**

Tagged!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amber tagged me for this Summer quiz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Enjoy!!!


What's your fav day of summer(June 1-Sept 1)? Anywhere from June 1st, to the last minute in August!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What's your fav indoor activity during summer? Getting on my blog, playing games online, getting on my email, and playing with my Barbies.

Fav outdoor activity? Playing pretend and swimming and riding my bike, walking with my mom and dad, and helping my Pop and Dad, and driving the mower, and riding in the cart Dad and Pop pull behind the mower.

The pool or the beach? both

Have you ever camped in a tent during the summer heat? Nooooooo

Popsicles or ice cream? popsicles(I made spritesicles)

What flavor? Sprite and lemonade.

Do you help in your church's VBS? No, I might be able to next year, though.

Do you get bored during summer? sometimes

Are you going anywhere this summer? Maybe..........

Is summer your fav season? yes.

I tag...

Mom
Allyson(my friend with a private blog)
Brandy
Ana
Ms. Mandy
Ms. Shelley




Blessings,
Love, Joy =D