Entries by Renee

9 Ways You Can Help an Orphan

If you are new to Barefoot Walks, I need to explain something.  The purpose of this blog is to share, inspire, and encourage each other to make the most of every opportunity we are given.  To create moments, experiences, and traditions with the ones we love.  To make a moment out of everything, especially the […]

Intentions and Goals of Orphan Hosting

The most common question and response we receive when sharing that we are hosting an orphan is this:  “What happens at the end of 4 weeks?  They just go home?” I thought I would share info from New Horizon’s website that would answer these questions. www.newhorizonsforchildren.org : “Orphans usually feel left out, left behind and […]

Orphan Hosting: Adopted by the Father

This had to be shared.  If you have wondered why orphan hosting is so important.  This is just one reason.  And it’s an eternal one.  Not everyone can adopt.  But we can introduce orphans to the Father to be adopted. http://www.newhorizonsforchildren.org/son-of-the-king/ Son of the King January 4, 2013 By Stacey Maljian Leave a Comment One of our winter […]

Day 17: Tell Me More

Using translator the other day, I asked Viktors, “Tell me something I don’t know about you”. “I can tell you nothing.”  That is what translated anyway. The last few days he has dropped more and more nuggets of info.  He’s comfortable now.  My boys (up to this point in their little lives) tell me everything. […]

Day 13: Autostereogram Moments

(autostereogram image by John Hsu) According to Wikipedia “An autostereogram is a single-image stereogram (SIS), designed to create the visual illusion of a three-dimensional (3D) scene within the human brain from an external two-dimensional image. In order to perceive 3D shapes in these autostereograms, one must overcome the normally automatic coordination between accommodation (focus) and vergence (angle of ones eyes)….. A hidden 3D scene emerges when the image is viewed with the correct […]

Day 10: The little victories

One of the most difficult aspects of hosting Viktors is the language barrier.  We have trained our own children to obey, simply obey first, ask questions after you’ve obeyed.  Now, they don’t always do this, but they know that is the expectation.  Well, Viktors hasn’t been trained to simply obey.  Yet, he wants to.  He […]

Day 7: A Week Really?

The fastest week.  The most exhausting week.  The most emotionally draining week.  The most joy-filled week.  A roller coaster of a week. Has it really been 7 days already?  Was it really this time last week that we were giddy with excitement, barely able to contain ourselves, as we waited to get to know this […]