The Law

One year ago today, the Dima Yakovlev law was signed by President Putin. One year ago today, my life was turned upside down. One year ago today was awful.
Though it's nearly impossible to find too many who still care here in the United States, there are still many Russians fighting for these kids. We have been involved in several different new stories this last week! It's been exciting and surreal to see our faces on picket line posters and Russian news articles! Here are links to several, though not all, of the stories. Crazy!

Here's a link to an article about the Christmas movie we made. Our picture may or may not be at the top of that article ;)

Here's a link to the picket.

This is an article about my friend sending hats to her daughter and her friends in the orphanage.

Here's an open letter to our children in a Russian paper.

We have also been emailing Julia with The Downside Up. It's an amazing organization in Russia that is working to change the perception people have of individuals with Down syndrome. They're doing such important work, and she'd like to use our story in an article she's writing.

I'm so thankful to the Russians who realize the children who still haven't been adopted (most of whom have disabilities) should be allowed to go home to their families. During this time when the Russian government is pardoning so many, please continue to pray they have mercy on these children who were promised families!! Here's one more article:

This is about including children in the pardon.