Their mission here was finished...

Let's not let their journey be in vain. Katerina and Margarita have gone back to their Heavenly Father after a flu epidemic hit their institution. They died without knowing the love of a family. So many other children like them languish in orphanages and mental institutions in Eastern Europe. Children who need and deserve the love of a family. Today we cry for Katerina and Margarita, Let's get the word out so that others will not die alone.

Miss Katerina

Miss Margarita

Meredith at http://www.cornishadoptionjourney.blogspot.com/ said it so well that I think this has been the most posted tribute among the Reece's Rainbow "family" (http://www.reecesrainbow.org/) ...

While we were... in memory

While we were eating... ... they were hungry
While we were playing... ... they were restrained
While we were tucking our kids into bed... ... they were alone
While we turned up the heat... ... they laid in the icy cold
While we wrapped our children in blanket sleepers... ... they laid in their own excrement
While we sang songs and listened to music... ... they listened to the screams and cries of those around them
While we rocked our babies... ... they silently rocked themselves
While we hugged our kids... ... they scratched at their own faces and pulled their own hair for stimulation
While we cried over scraped knees... ... they moaned in their loneliness
While we brushed our daughters' beautiful hair... ... they had their heads shaven to stave off the lice
While we fought off the flu with love and nourishment... ... they got the flu and went Home.
No longer suffering... but so many more still are.
In memory of those that have never felt the love of a family, but have passed away alone.
Today we learned of the passing of these two girls in Eastern Europe.